Palma.As part of celebrations for World Environment day, a fish eagle was released at Majorca's Cúber reservoir in the Tramuntana mountains, the Balearic government's Environment Education Direct Neus Lliteras said yesterday.
Last May, the bird had been found by a walker close to the reservoir and handed in to a government wildlife protection unit COFIB badly weakened. Thanks to a conservation programme, the adult female, now 11 years old, had been ringed at a nest on Minorca when it was still a chick in June 2001.
The bird had chosen the Tramuntana as a natural nesting site but had been traceable through radar at any given moment.
To mark World Environment day yesterday, all the nature reserve visitor centres were open to the public for free. Agriculture and Environment Minister Biel Company meanwhile was awarding prizes to winners of a competition aimed at nurturing care for the environment in business practices. The ministry has arranged environment-related activities this Saturday such as a turtle monitoring trip in Majorca's Mondragó nature reserve.
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