Replication Trip to Birdlife Malta

The LIFE Lanner project includes initiatives in the field of replicating techniques with LIFE projects and other initiatives on similar topics (action E.3).

After the wonderful experience at GREFA in Madrid, the trips are not over: part of our staff, who in the LIFE Lanner project is responsible for managing breeding pairs and releasing young lanners, also supporting the activities of the Wildlife Recovery Center of Lake Vico, went to Malta, where the organization BirdLife Malta, the official partner of our project, operates.

BirdLife Malta is an environmental NGO that employs a large team to achieve the protection of wild birds, natural habitats, and biodiversity, using various methods: supporting the police to combat poaching and pressuring authorities for better bird protection legislation; managing two protected natural areas; rescuing and rehabilitating injured and distressed wildlife; dissemination and education; and ornithological monitoring and research.

In addition to the opportunity to participate in anti-poaching activities and to get to know their work up close, this trip was an opportunity to propose the technical skills of managing raptors in care and releasing them using the hacking method, developed at the CRAS Lake Vico.

Collaboration between two entities that share the same ideals is essential to maximize impact. Comparing and exchanging experiences fosters innovation, providing the opportunity to find effective solutions, and it is also important to strengthen credibility and thus reach a wider audience, generating significant change with the common goal of protecting our precious birds.

We thank the BirdLife Malta team for this important opportunity, and we look forward to welcoming some of their collaborators in the spring, who will come to visit us at the R.N.R. Lake Vico to see our center, the lanners of the LIFE Lanner project, and the recovery center up close.