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The United Kingdom Red Kite reintroduction programme was a wildlife initiative to reintroduce the Red Kite to many parts of the United Kingdom from which they had vanished, and is the longest continuous conservation programme in the world. The Red Kite was formerly a common bird in the United Kongdom, but due to persecution by man had completely vanished from England and Scotland by the mid-19th century, and was restricted to a small number of breeding areas in Wales. By 1989, the small number of Kites had been protected but population expansion was small, so a reintroduction programme was started by the RSPB and the Nature Conservancy Council.