The Brinzal association, in collaboration with the Biodiversity Foundation, launched last year the initiative “An owl in every olive tree”, a project that seeks the involvement of professionals in the agricultural sector in the preservation of this species, specifically in some 300 hectares between Morata and Perales de Tajuña, southeast of Madrid.

With this initiative, Brinzal has released 25 owls, which have passed through its Night Raptor Recovery Center, where they have been bred.

It is a species that has seen its number of specimens reduced by 40% in the last ten years, due to the abandonment of traditional crops and the transformations undergone in the field of agriculture, which involves the disappearance of crop boundaries or old trees, spaces that serve as shelter and food for the little owl.

Faced with this situation, Brinzal wanted to put farmers in contact so that they can make their activities compatible with the conservation of this species, a protection that involves compliance with certain requirements in the field of agricultural action such as the control of the use of phytosanitary products or the implementation of artificial perches for birds. In addition, Brinzal wanted to recognize the work of farmers, providing a certification label of the “owl-friendly” character of their products.

Brinzal is an organization created for the study and conservation of nocturnal birds of prey, highlighting the rehabilitation of the owl in the organization’s Raptor Recovery Center.