Wild animals have to live with daily threats posed by human society. Habitat conservation is a top priority, but by no means the only one. Electricity cables, increased traffic levels, wind farms, fire arms, various new constructions and developments, persecution, poisonings and fence collisions are just a simple of the many threats that wildlife has to face. Many individuals of various species are affected (some gravely threatened owing to their declining population levels) and would find it impossible to survive in the wild having been shot, poisoned or hit by traffic, without help. The most fortunate among the injured become patients in some special hospitals: wildlife recovery centres.

 A real sense of debt and obligation drives qualified personnel in specialist centres to work with the sole objective of rehabilitating these animals and returning them to freedom.

The AMUS wildlife hospital was set up as a captive breeding project for Montagu´s Harrier Circus pygargus at the end of 1995, with the goal of expanding to a more general wildlife hospital in mind: one devoted to the treatment and release of Iberian fauna. This versatile hospital provides something more than just clinical treatment. For example, individuals who can't be returned to the wild are placed in adoption or captive breeding programmes that also contribute to innovative social awareness and environmental education projects.