{"id":49191,"date":"2025-10-21T11:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milvus.ro\/veterinary-visit-from-asturias\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:47:11","slug":"veterinary-visit-from-asturias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milvus.ro\/en\/veterinary-visit-from-asturias\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterinary visit from Asturias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, we were visited by a veterinary team from the region of Asturias, Spain<\/strong>. The team, consisting of two veterinarians and an assistant, born in Romania. The visitors wanted to learn how the rehabilitation of injured wild animals<\/strong> is organised in our country.<\/span><\/p>

There are significant differences \u2014 one could say \u201cas wide as the sky and the earth\u201d \u2014 between how the two countries approach wildlife rehabilitation.<\/span> \n \n \n<\/span>In Spain<\/strong>, this service is highly organised<\/strong>, with responsibilities shared<\/strong> between the central administration, the autonomous communities, and non-governmental organisations. Each region, including Asturias, has its own wildlife recovery centre, financed by public funds, that is, by the state. The size of these centres and their working procedures vary from one region to another.<\/span><\/p>

In Romania, there is no public service of this kind<\/strong>. Only a few centres exist, including the <\/span>Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre of the Milvus Group<\/strong>,<\/span><\/a> which cares for animals in need. All this work is carried out on a voluntary basis, funded through private sources and donations, without any governmental support.<\/span><\/p>

While in Asturias injured animals found by citizens are collected by a ranger, in Romania such animals reach us thanks to kind-hearted people who bring them at their own expense. In Spain, rangers are also responsible for releasing rehabilitated animals back into the wild. The list of differences between the approach of the two countries could go on. \n \n<\/p>

However, our meeting with the Spanish veterinary team was not discouraging \u2014 quite the opposite. We too have many reasons to be proud:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>