A 2024 has just ended, where we celebrate our 20th anniversary, full of surprises and news, of successes and challenges achieved, but also of a lot of work and effort made. The COFIB team is looking forward to a very exciting, stimulating 2025, full of challenges and new projects where we hope to be up to the important events in environmental matters that will undoubtedly occur on our islands.

Throughout 2024, 5,566 wild animals have been treated in the different recovery centres and associated veterinary clinics of COFIB in Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera with a recovery percentage of 42%. The Marine Fauna department, for its part, has attended to 477 incidents related to marine species, mainly turtles, but also mammals and some sharks and rays.

The Department of Health and Wildlife Control has not stopped fighting against the main invasive exotic species of flora and fauna present in the Balearic Islands, such as the Asian wasp, the raccoon, the carp, the carpobrotus and the penissetum, among others. Special mention should be made of the invasive and introduced snakes, with more than 4,000 captures throughout the archipelago. In addition, this department carries out health monitoring and periodic controls on these and other species of wild animals, such as goats and pigs.

On the other hand, COFIB has not stopped carrying out its educational, training and research work, which is so necessary in environmental issues.

For all this, on behalf of the entire COFIB team, we would like to thank all citizens, veterinary clinics, authorities, state security forces and bodies, environmental agents and other organisations and institutions for their participation, support and help in the conservation of our natural heritage.