When, at the beginning of 2020, the GPS/GSM data logger, able to monitor its movements, reported an anomaly, the researchers warned immediately the CERM staff (Associazione Centro Rapaci Minacciati – Association for Threatened Birds of prey), with whom they have been collaborated for years.
Some volunteers of the CERM Association went to the bird of prey’s last position, as indicated by the GPS, and arrived into an agricultural area in the province of Potenza. Here, despite careful research, they failed to find the corpse. Therefore, the Association asked to the Command for the Protection of Biodiversity and the Carabinieri of the Park for the intervention of one of the Anti-Poison Dog Units inserted in the LIFE PLUTO project.  
Thus, the Carabinieri Department for the Pollino National Park activated the UCA (Anti-Poison Dog Unit) that, first, planned the research operation relying on indications and maps provided by the CERM staff and, then, went to that place with CUFA staff (Comando Unità Forestali, Ambientali e Agroalimentari – Carabinieri Command Unit for Forest, Environment and Agri-food Protection).
On January 19, 2020 the labrador Thor, led by its conductor Cosimo Cervellera, quickly managed to located and report the corpse of the red kite, which floated on the water surface of a concrete tank.
Unfortunately, the bird of prey was not alone: in the same tank, the CUFA staff also found the corpses of two buzzards.
The Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Puglia and Basilicata received the corpses to ascertain their death causes.
Three institutions were monitoring the red kite "Ornitela 191" and, since 2014, they have followed many red kites born in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia by radio telemetry. These institutions are the Technisches Büro für Biologie (Austria), the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Brno, Czech Republic) e the Raptor Protection of Slovakia (Slovakia).
Unfortunately, this animal is not the only one, monitored by Central European researchers, to have lost their lives in Italy. Among others, it had already happened in 2017 to an animal born in the Czech Republic that had ingested a poisoned bait in the province of Siena. 
In that case, an Anti-Poison Dog Unit intervened, belonging to the Department for the Casentinesi Forest Park, alerted by the CERM Association.