In 2020 ANIMA admitted and cared for 6228 wild animals. 34% of the intakes were passerines (House sparrows, various finches, corvids, starlings, swallows, blackbirds, etc.), 15% reptiles (mainly tortoises), 14% birds of prey, 5% mammals, 4% seabirds, 2% wading birds/shorebirds. The remaining 24%, titled ‘other’, are mainly Collared doves. It is quite indicative that in the area of Athens and…
Birds fly through the sacred Birds fly through the sacred photo by Sean Hawkey/WCC His All-Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew, releases a kestrel into the wild sky on the Greek island of Spetses. Th… Source: mygrations.blogspot.com/2018/07/birds-fly-through-sacred_24.html
ANIMA members, staff and volunteers, through the sorrow for the loss of so many of our fellow humans, stand firmly by their mission, wild animals rescue. Groups of our volunteers attend the fields daily to collect any living animals and to record the situation.
Using the words “It is better to live free!” the Ecumenical Patriarch released 2 rock kestrels rescued by ANIMA, during the second day of the International Symposium about nature protection and the protection of all those having this planet as their home. The Patriarch stated in his opening speech: “Ecologic crisis made us realize that the entire world is an…
Two training seminars “First Aid to Wild Fauna and Networking of Volunteers” of the project “Creation of a Volunteer Network for Care and Infrastructure of First Aid for wild fauna in Crete and Athens”, funded by the A.G. Leventis foundation, took place on the island of Crete during April and June 2018. The seminars were organized by the University of…
A baby deer was found by hikers a week ago in Parnitha National Park. Its mother must have been scared by the crowd, while the hikers considered it orphaned and exhausted (because as a newborn it could not stand on its own feet) and thus arrived at ANIMA by the forestry commission. Once again we need to emphasize that when…
