One of our important partners in the Cyclades, the Aegean Wildlife Hospital based on Paros, treats and rehabilitates hundreds of injured wild animals found in the region every year and encourages the protection of the fauna through Environmental Education. They measure success more in terms of effective treatment and release of his small patients – the Hospital has an overall release rate of at least 60% and the animals and birds are always released to their natural environment or on migratory routes.
They are doing an excellent work and we are all grateful for their hard work to protect the wildlife all these years. We recently shared the unique experience of releasing a young hawk! What an honor!
This is a project supported by the Cyclades Preservation Fund!
Watch here the documentary RELEASE OF WINGS partly dedicated to the work of our partner:
János Déri and Marios Fournaris both have spent 25 years of their lives saving birds. Two aging “medicine men” with strange pasts and attitudes who work in their own bird hospitals adamantly, 1800 kilometres from each other, leaning only on the goodwill and financial support of strangers. János is an acclaimed veterinarian at the Hungarian Hortobágy, while Marios taught himself the healing of birds on a small Greek island, Paros. They receive injured, electrocuted, illegally shot, sick birds daily. Their stories interweave.