THE NORTHERN BALD IBIS PROJECT
Italy’s first “hotel” for the reintroduction into the wild of a species that has become legendary
THE STORY.
In the early 2000s, researcher Johannes Fritz had a visionary idea: to teach migration once again to a species that hadn’t migrated for centuries.
With the support of the Natura Viva park, Johannes took off in a microlight, with a group of young northern bald ibises following him from Austria to the WWF Oasis in Orbetello, crossing the Alps. Not only did these birds reach their destination, but years later they returned independently to the north to breed and teach the route to the new young ibises.
Today, the Waldrappteam Conservation & Research continues this mission: human “surrogate parents” raise the chicks and fly with them, rebuilding, kilometer by kilometer, the future of this species.
THE STORY.
In the early 2000s, researcher Johannes Fritz had a visionary idea: to teach migration once again to a species that hadn’t migrated for centuries.
With the support of the Natura Viva park, Johannes took off in a microlight, with a group of young northern bald ibises following him from Austria to the WWF Oasis in Orbetello, crossing the Alps. Not only did these birds reach their destination, but years later they returned independently to the north to breed and teach the route to the new young ibises.
Today, the Waldrappteam Conservation & Research continues this mission: human “surrogate parents” raise the chicks and fly with them, rebuilding, kilometer by kilometer, the future of this species.
