Any removal from nature is against the law. The vocation of Donjon des Aigles since a number of years has been to help the preservation and reproduction of birds of prey. The birds are installed away from the public so as not to be disturbed.
Sometimes artificial insemination is necessary but, for the most part, natural reproduction is used with the first clutch of eggs being removed. About three weeks later, a second clutch is laid (called the replacement clutch) which is left to the parents to assure the rearing.
After having been slandered and persecuted for a long time, all diurnal and nocturnal birds of prey are now protected in France since 1972.
