Feature: Malta to release barn owls into the wild in hope for more offsprings

VALLETTA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Malta's Federation for Hunting and Conservation, a federation of hunters and trappers, is in the process of releasing some six barn owls grown in captivity as part of a project. They will soon begin the process of reintroducing this species which has been missing from the Maltese Islands for over two decades.

Project manager Lucas Micallef told Xinhua that the project, the first of its kind in Malta, follows similar examples from other European countries where birds of prey are bred and then released into the wild to delay their extinction.