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2 PHD IN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY OF RAPTORS 2021-2022!
We are looking for highly motivated candidates interested in the conservation of raptors. You would be studying the demography, movement, food webs and conservation of Egyptian and Griffon vultures or Eagle Owl. Two PhD projects are proposed. The main goal...
The Natural Park of Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac already has an updated Catalogue of flora and fauna
The work, carried out by the Conservation Biology Group within the framework of the Mediterranean Mountain Biodiversity Monitoring Centre, lists and classifies all the vascular flora and invertebrate and vertebrate animals that have been mentioned, live or have been...
New agreement between the University of Barcelona and Mava foundation to mitigate the electrocution of birds
About 39,000 birds are electrocuted every year in Spain –about 3,000 in Catalonia–, but these figures could be even higher. A great part of the birds that are affected by electrocution are protected by law and are threatened species, such as the Spanish imperial eagle...
An indicator of mature and endangered forests: The Northern Goshawk
During the last years and particularly in Catalonia, forestry exploitation has increased due to revaluation of firewood and timber, new policies promoting biomass as a sustainable energy source and actions promoting wildfire prevention. Forestry exploitation has been...
Volcà, an adult Egyptian vulture from the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park gets to Africa!
Volcà (meaning Volcano in Catalan) is an adult Egyptian vulture from a pair nesting in the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park where this year they raised a chick. On the 18th August, Volcà was captured and equipped with a GPS-GSM emitter. It was one of...
Willy the fast: A Young Egyptian vulture
As part of the ringing and marking programme for the population of Egyptian vultures in Central and Eastern Catalonia carried out by the Conservation Biology Group of the University of Barcelona (see more information here), on the 28th June a chick was ringed in the...
Studying Egyptian vultures with GPS, a novel tool for conservation
The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is a globally endangered species, being the Iberian Peninsula where we find one of its most important populations. In this area, its populations have dramatically decreased during the last decades mainly due to the loss of...
Increasing population of Egyptian vulture in Central and Northeastern Catalonia during Covid-19
During the decade of 60s of the past century, the Egyptian vulture extinguished from extensive parts of Catalonia and only remained few pairs in Western areas near Aragon. In 1980s, a new pair recolonized an ancient area further East. From 1990s, the ancient...
Covid-19 and conservation biodiversity
The Natural Park of Sant Llorenç del Munt and l’Obac, the first created in Spain, hosts the Centre for the Monitoring of Biodiversity in Mediterranean Mountains. It aims to monitor biodiversity in order to have a continuous diagnosis of its conservation state,...
Rodenticides: The silent killers
During the monitoring of raptor populations such as the Eagle owl and the Egyptian vulture carried out by the Conservation Biology Group of the University of Barcelona, annual failures in reproduction for no apparent reason or sudden disappearances of adult...