Every spring, some telecommunications towers are transformed into something unexpected: safe and welcoming shelters for storks, which choose Italy as the place to build their nests and raise their young.
It all began in the municipality of Inverno and Monteleone, in the heart of the Pavia province, where a pair of storks was forced to abandon a nest built on a crane. INWIT stepped in with an innovative solution: the creation of a circular platform on one of its towers, turning it into a “ready-to-live” nest. Since then, that site has become a nesting hotspot, welcoming new stork families each year and preserving an ancient and precious natural ritual. And not only there—another stork family has found a home atop an INWIT telecom tower in the municipality of Cura Carpignano (PV).
Year after year, the nest expands and strengthens, becoming a permanent part of the local landscape, a point of interest for ornithologists and visitors alike, and a symbol of the harmonious coexistence between technological innovation and nature. [ WATCH THE VIDEO ]
Thanks to simple yet effective solutions, such as platforms designed specifically to host stork nests, INWIT’s telecom towers show how digital and shared infrastructure can play a dual role: enabling territorial connectivity while supporting biodiversity and promoting harmony between people and the environment
commented Michelangelo Suigo, INWIT’s Director of External Relations, Communications & Sustainability.
This initiative is part of INWIT’s broader commitment to integrating environmental sustainability with digital infrastructure, bridging technological advancement with the protection of natural heritage.
A further example of how infrastructure can evolve and become an ally of nature.
A story that reveals a new face of telecommunications towers—capable of hosting connections… and new life.
