The birth of the lanner chick in the breeding center of the European LIFE LANNER project is an encouraging sign that demonstrates the importance of concrete efforts to protect this species in danger of extinction. Thanks to the constant commitment of the project managed by the Monti Cimini – Lake Vico Nature Reserve, located in […]
Delivering secure poles following our technical inspection Back in February, our partner e-distribuzione inspected power lines in the areas of Lake Vico Natural Reserve and Marturanum Regional Park. As we wrote about here, the aim was to identify power line sectors that might be dangerous for birds, specifically to young lanner falcons released within our […]
Last Monday, LIPU recovered a female Lanner who had been wounded in a wing that was hospitalized at CRUMA, a centre for the recovery of marine and other aquatic birds in Livorno managed by LIPU. A few hours after arriving at the center, the bird unexpectedly laid an egg. As part of the existing collaboration […]
Yesterday we were on the front page of the Viterbo edition of Il Messaggero. Below you can find the whole news story in italian. The article mentions how the Italian population represents 85% of the European one, and illustrates the stark decline in breeding couples we’ve seen in the past 20 years. In this sad […]
Five years to bring back the lanner falcon from the brink of extinction Today we made the front page of the Viterbo edition of Il Messaggero! Amid the usual news, an encouraging piece about the lanner falcon, our project, and the roles played by Riserva Lago di Vico and all partners. Stay tuned to read […]
A couple of weeks ago we showed you our new aviaries, ready to become home to our lanner falcons. On December 20 we relocated two of our lanner couples to the new structures: Ulisse and Penelope in one, Tempesta and Atlante in the other. Gea and Uragano, instead, were moved back to their old aviary. […]
On November 17th we presented the LIFE Lanner project to EASME, the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, officially making ourselves known at an international level. We were invited to introduce our project, developments and goals in a nutshell. We participated together with a variety of LIFE grant beneficiaries who started their projects in […]
We are happy to announce a new co-financer for the LIFE Lanner project. Thanks to the efforts of our colleague Arturo Palomba, finance manager and project administrator of BirdLife Malta, the Maltese Ministry for Education and Employment (MEDE) has added a contribution to the project summing up to 14% of the partner’s budget.
We are happy to announce a new release site in the regional park of Marturanum, province of Viterbo. Works started at the beginning of the summer, and are now complete. A new hacking box was placed on top of a specifically built tower, and equipped with two videocameras that will transmit data thanks to a […]
A technical meeting was held in Grosseto, in the facilities of the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lazio and Tuscany (IZSLT). In addition to the technical and administrative staff of IZSLT, the other partners in attendance were technicians from the Lake Vico Natural Reserve and Regione Lazio. During the meeting some administrative procedures were developed to […]
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