After last year stork release gave themselves a great bunch of first in the path to Bornholm. Then they came back to Skåne, before heading to northern Germany and further south.
There are two main routes for storks from Sweden. Either they take the southeastern route to Turkey and Israel and then on to Africa or the southwestern down towards Spain and in some cases on the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara to South Africa. However, nowadays winter many of the southwest enjoyed the flying storks in Spain, where access to food is abundant on the open dumps that are still there.
Today up around 500 storks in Skåne, of which slightly more than half live in captivity. Prolonged and persistent hard work is behind the growing Swedish stork trunk. In time, they hope to work with stork project to dismantle it.
– It is a long term goal that we should liquidate ourselves. But I think maybe it will take ten years before we can totally let go, says Emma Ådahl.
Storks are sumptuous and mythical birds, but that is not why so many resources are invested in a single species.
– For me it’s very much about the stork is a SymbolART. If we focus on the stork and the habitat it needs so many other less violent species, to get the better of the bargain.
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