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The goal of Operation Safe Water Basins is to rescue animals that fall into the water collection basins scattered throughout the Calabrian countryside; as part of this initiative, the Aspromonte National Park Authority is installing specially designed escape ramps. These structures allow red kites and many other animal species to...

Throughout the Aspromonte National Park and its surrounding areas, there are many water collection basins, which are used to irrigate crops or provide water for livestock. Often these structures, locally called “gebbie,” have vertical concrete walls and no external fencing: this makes them deadly traps for many animal species. Tanks...

Many of the red kites released in the Aspromonte National Park in 2023-2024 thanks to the LIFE MILVUS project have made significant journeys, while returning sporadically to their birthplace. They have repeatedly reached Sicily, where some of them have wintered, and have explored peninsular Italy, passing through Basilicata, Puglia, and...

Newsletter No. 3 of the LIFE MILVUS project is now available in PDF format. It focuses in particular on the release of 15 young red kites into the wild, which took place in the Aspromonte National Park in July 2025, the most significant events involving some of the red kites...

On September 13, 2025, Hans the red kite returned to fly in the skies of Aspromonte. Born in Switzerland and released in the Aspromonte National Park in August 2024, on May 6, 2025, the young bird of prey survived a close encounter with a wind turbine blade in central Calabria....

Between July 19 and 23, 2025, fifteen young red kites were released in the Aspromonte National Park as part of the reintroduction program underway under the LIFE MILVUS project. Ten specimens originated from the Canton of Fribourg (Switzerland), where they were taken from their nests in mid-June, while five specimens...