Private limited company UAB "LITAGRA" is one of the first private business organizations in Lithuania that has supported the solution of nature protection problems in practice. In 2003, at the initiative of the heads of UAB "LITAGRA" together with the staff of Ornithology Unit from Kaunas Tadas Ivanauskas Zoology Museum, a public establishment "Gamtosaugos projektų vystymo fondas" ("Foundation for the Development of Nature Protection Projects") was founded.
The principal aim pursued by the Foundation is to sustain the biological diversity and ensure the preservation of natural environment in Lithuania as well as to promote the ideas of nature protection and management within the society. The Foundation supports the development of scientific, practical and information activities undertaken within the area of environment protection, makes proposals to the authorities concerning the respective legislation and is involved in practical effort aimed at preserving rare and vanishing species. The Foundation is performing a continuous project "Protection of White-tailed sea eagles in Lithuania", launched since the establishment of organization and aiming at the preservation of internationally protected species of bird – the White-tailed sea eagle.
Project aim is to preserve and to increase the population of internationally protected White-tailed sea eagle in Lithuania, through involvement of local communities. Project tasks are to increase the number of breeding White-tailed sea-eagle pairs and to form the network of observation and to monitor population. Since 2003, 137 natural nests of White-tailed sea-eagle have been registered and 114 man-made nests have been erected. Surveillance of 80 percent of natural nests is foreseen till year 2010. Up to now, 70 events (seminars, trainings, lessons) have been organized for schoolchildren, students, educators, ornithologists, specialists of environment protection authorities and owners of forests seeking to inform them about the gained experience, achieved results and future plans. Community members participated in nests construction and erection, observed the birds.
