The director of the Biodiversity Foundation, a public foundation of the Government of Spain, under the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, Ana Leiva, has visited the facilities of the Natura Parc Foundation in Santa Eugenia, Mallorca. There he learned about the “Captive Breeding Program of the Red Kite (Milvus milvus)” that this entity has been carrying out for two years.

Through this initiative, the Natura Parc Foundation aims to ensure the survival of the Red Kite and guarantee a stable nucleus of breeding stock, allocating the hatchlings born to be part of both other breeding nuclei and In-situ projects in Spain. This species is currently listed as Endangered in the Balearic Islands and in the Vulnerable category at the state level.

The Natura Parc Foundation has been working since 2001 to protect, promote and study the native fauna and flora of the Balearic Islands, as well as studying, promoting and disseminating the rural culture of this autonomous community; to welcome, cure and release protected animals into their natural habitat; to carry out different environmental education programs aimed at the entire population; captive breeding of protected species as well as their subsequent reintroduction into their natural habitat.