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.
MIGRATION .
Migration is not just a journey, but a matter of survival. Although arduous, this movement toward warmer, milder regions is the only way to survive the cold months and return, in the spring, to their places of origin to reproduce. Teaching them the migratory route once again means giving this species back the key to its survival and its future.
Migration is not just a journey, but a matter of survival. Although arduous, this movement toward warmer, milder regions is the only way to survive the cold months and return, in the spring, to their places of origin to reproduce. Teaching them the migratory route once again means giving this species back the key to its survival and its future.
MIGRATION .
Migration is not just a journey, but a matter of survival. Although arduous, this movement toward warmer, milder regions is the only way to survive the cold months and return, in the spring, to their places of origin to reproduce. Teaching them the migratory route once again means giving this species back the key to its survival and its future.
MIGRATION .
Migration is not just a journey, but a matter of survival. Although arduous, this movement toward warmer, milder regions is the only way to survive the cold months and return, in the spring, to their places of origin to reproduce. Teaching them the migratory route once again means giving this species back the key to its survival and its future.
MIGRATION .
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.
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.