Civil Air Support
Serving The Community
Category: Wildlife
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Civil Air Support has once again put volunteer aviation at the service of wildlife conservation, flying six young white-tailed eagles from the Scottish Highlands to Exmoor ahead of their landmark release into the National Park. The mission, completed in mid-June 2026, supported the continuing white-tailed eagle reintroduction programme led by Forestry England and the Roy…
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Civil Air Support, the UK’s leading volunteer aviation charity, is proud to announce its continued involvement in one of the most significant wildlife conservation efforts in recent history: the reintroduction of White-Tailed Eagles to southern England. In July 2023 Forestry England and the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation announced that their project to return this species…
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Freak weather events can cause humans and wild animals to find themselves in precarious and often life-threatening positions with almost no warning. When such circumstances arise and tragic outcomes are feared, Civil Air Support Operations Managers anticipate the demand for their services and prepare their crews to standby. Storms Babet and Ciarán contributed to October…
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Civil Air Support were alerted to the mass stranding of a pod of 55 pilot whales near Stornoway on Sunday morning. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) mobilised specialist Marine Mammal Medics with the skills and equipment needed to assist local experts already at the scene, but the logistics of getting them from their mainland bases to…
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Raptor enthusiasts are ecstatic that a small breeding colony of Britain’s biggest bird of prey has become established in England again, having successfully hatched a healthy eaglet for the first time since 1780. Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation and Forestry England began the process of restoring the breeding population by translocating young white-tailed eagles from Scotland…
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Civil Air Support (CAS) does not typically provide private charter flights for VIPs returning to their homes, but when the passenger is a rare Arctic Ringed Seal found hundreds of miles from his native land, the aviation charity are happy to make an exception. Named ‘Hispi’ by his carers at the Scottish Society for the…