Andrea is back in the air. After the shotgun blast in Calabria that injured his right wing last Oct. 3 and after a long period of treatment and rehabilitation, the young red kite was released into the wild on Jan. 19, 2025 near Madonie Regional Park in Sicily. Born in...

On December 4 and 5, 2024, the Aspromonte National Park headquarters located in Gambarie, a hamlet of the municipality of Santo Stefano in Aspromonte (RC), hosted a qualification course on the phenomenon of wildlife poisoning organized under the LIFE MILVUS project. The use of poisoned baits turns out to be...

Red kite Andrea was wounded by a shot on Oct. 3 south of Reggio Calabria, between the localities of Pellaro and Motta S. Giovanni. The specimen had been born in Switzerland (Canton of Fribourg) in spring 2023 and had been released in Aspromonte National Park in August of that year...

On August 7, 2024, 17 red kites were released in Aspromonte National Park. These were ten young individuals from Switzerland, five juveniles from Corsica, and two red kites, one juvenile and one adult, which had been found in distress in Basilicata in recent months. Thanks to the valuable work of...

Fifteen red kites are currently housed at the Aspromonte National Park's acclimation and release center, ready to be released into the wild. On June 20, 2024, ten red kites born in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, were transferred to Italy and joined five red kites translocated from Corsica six days...

Five young red kites born in Corsica just over a month ago are housed at the CERM Threatened Raptor Center in Rocchette di Fazio (GR), southern Tuscany, waiting to be transferred to Aspromonte National Park for their release into the wild, scheduled for July 2024. The red kites arrived in...