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News 2025
26th LIFE Platform at Schloss Rosegg in Carinthia
From April 23 to 24, the 26th LIFE Platform took place at Schloss Rosegg in Carinthia. The event was hosted...
A Golden Panda of WWF Italy to Waldrappteam for conservation efforts
On April 11 to 13 2025, the WWF Italy National Forum was held, and on this occasion the Golden Panda,...
Breeding Season and Hand Raising in Full Swing: 32 Northern Bald Ibis Chicks Hand-Raised at Rosegg Zoo
On April 14, the final collection of Northern Bald Ibis chicks took place at Rosegg Zoo. Nine chicks, aged between...
Media Misidentification Threatens Conservation Efforts
A recent television broadcast in the news programs of the Italian media company Mediaset—including TG4, TG5 and TGCOM24—reported alleged damage...
Start of Hand-Raising at Rosegg Zoo & Exclusive Sponsorship Program
On April 4th, the hand-raising of this year’s Northern Bald Ibis chicks began at Rosegg Zoo. Seven chicks, aged between...
Uniting for the Northern Bald Ibis: Successful International Symposium Held in Andalusia
On March 12 and 13, a two-day symposium was held at the Alcázar of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia,...
Between Claim and Reality: Italian Hunting Associations Responsible for the Protection of the Northern Bald Ibis and other Endangered
Poaching remains a significant threat to the Northern Bald Ibis in Italy. Around a third of Northern Bald Ibis losses...
Eight birds poached in Italy: Modern GPS Technology Helps Exposing Poachers
For more than 20 years, we have been dedicated to fighting the senseless killing of Northern Bald Ibises in Italy....
News 2024
Delayed autumn migration
The autumn migration is delayed again this year: On 22 November, 34 birds from the two breeding colonies Burghausen and...
Record flight over 2,600 kilometres: the European Northern Bald Ibis project sets new standards in species conservation
The human-led migration in 2024 was a record flight: Within 52 days, the Waldrappteam led 36 juvenile Northern Bald Ibises...
Valencia
On 14 September we reached the Val del Olocau airfield north of Valencia after 33 days of migration.
Slowed down by the Mistral, we continue to the South of France
On three consecutive days, the team flew 400 kilometers from Hütten-Hotzenwald in the Black Forest to Perouge airfield near Lyon.
Successful start of the second human-led migration to Andalusia
On 13 August at 08:15, an ultralight aircraft together with 36 juvenile Northern Bald Ibises took off from the training...
20 years of the Northern Bald Ibises in Burghausen
20 years ago, the Waldrappteam was invited to present the Northern Bald Ibis at Burghausen Castle as part of the...
Annual Report 2023
2023 was the second year of our ongoing seven-year LIFE-project under leadership of Zoo Vienna.
Colonisation of the Katharinenfelsen and relocation to Taching
In Überlingen at Lake Constance, Germany, we have achieved a significant success: we have finally been able to motivate the...
News 2023
Dear friends, partners and supporters of the Northern Bald Ibis project
One of the most exciting and eventful seasons of our Northern Bald Ibis project is coming to an end. Of...
Plenty of reasons for hope:Juvenile bird Fiete in Andalusia
On December 2nd, we received news from Miguel Angel Quevedo Muñoz from our Spanish partner project Proyecto Eremita that a...
BBC Planet Earth III: Sir David Attenborough is presenting Katharina Huchler from our LIFE Northern Bald Ibis project as a conservation hero
Tomorrow, Sunday December 9th 2023, a new BBC Planet Earth III episode has its premiere. Sir David Attenborough is introducing...
At the last opportunity: Unexpected Alpine crossings in Salzburg and Switzerland
The trend towards an increasingly later start of the autumn migration continues in 2023. Until November 24th, the majority of...
32 juvenile Northern Bald Ibises in Sweden, Denmark and northern Germany
As reported two weeks ago (see newsletter: Young birds flying to northern Germany and Sweden), a large group of Northern...
Young birds flying to northern Germany and Sweden
A group of young birds from the two breeding colonies of Kuchl in the state of Salzburg and Burghausen in...
First electricity pylons in Hochburg-Ach secured against electrocution
Electrocution continues to be one of the most common causes of death in the reintroduced Northern Bald Ibis population. Most...
We made it: We have arrived at our destination
A journey of 2.320 kilometres lies behind us. We were on the move for 43 days, flew 19 stages with...
News 2022
Merry Christmas!
It was an eventful and exciting year for the Waldrappteam. Also thanks to your support, we were able to successfully implement many goals and measures.
Serious bird losses in Tuscany due to the Cyclone Denise
On November 21 and 22, the cyclone Denise brought a wave of severe weather to Corsica, Sardinia and large parts of Italy including Tuscany. It led to extensive flooding and...
Gift ideas: Waldrapp calendar 2023 and picture auction
The Tourism Association of Burghausen, in cooperation with Oliver Habel, has again put together a very nice Northern Bald Ibis wall calendar for the year 2023.
FACE position paper of European hunters: Recent kills of Northern Bald Ibises demonstrate urgency for true “zero tolerance” against Wildlife Crime
On October 25, 2022, the FACE General Assembly unanimously adopted a position paper on wildlife crime (download link), which according to their own statement reaffirms their long-standing position of "zero...
Climate change is becoming an increasing threat and challenge for the Northern Bald Ibis
Numerous Northern Bald Ibises from the three breeding colonies in the northern foothills of the Alps are still north of the Alps. They are acutely endangered by the approaching onset...
Exciting autumn migration
Some time has passed since we arrived in Tuscany on 2nd September with the hand-raised young birds. After a few weeks of acclimatisation in the aviary, these birds have now...
Hannibal
Hannibal is a female Northern Bald Ibis with an exciting personality and a very unique life history. In 2015, she was hand-raised in Salzburg by two human foster parents. In...
Arrived: Grand finale of the 15th human-led migration.
On 2 September at 3:20 pm, two microlights and 25 young Northern Bald Ibises landed at the edge of the WWF Oasi Laguna di Orbetello after a flight of 261...
Record flight at the beginning of the fifteenth human-led Ibis migration
On the 16 of August, shortly before noon, an unusual formation landed on a meadow north of the Schönachhof campsite in Gerlos: 29 young Northern Bald Ibises flanked by two...
Dramatic electrocution in Salzburg: Medium-voltage pylons as a death trap for large birds
This year, 40 Northern Bald Ibises have already fledged in the four breeding colonies. After fledging, the birds are no longer roosting and resting in their breeding niches but are...
Tracing the Fate of the Northern Bald Ibis Over Five Millennia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Extinction and Recovery of an Iconic Bird Species
We recently published a paper together with the Egyptologist and our longtime friend Jiří Janák from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at the Charles University in Prague. Jiří has been...
Reason for Hope: Visit from Jane Goodall
In the last week, Jane Goodall visited the European LIFE Northern Bald Ibis project. This famous and charismatic scientist revolutionized our society’s thinking about the relationship between humans and animals...
