Lecturer Manel Puigcerver, honored with Jan Van Haaften 2019 Award to Wildlife Management in Europe
Manel Puigcerver, lecturer at the Faculty of Education and collaborator at the Faculty of Biology, has been honoured with the International Union of Game Biologists Jan Van Haaften 2019 Award. This entity promotes the improvement of knowledge, conservation and management of wildlife in the natural habitat.
Since 2013, this award distinguishes people and institutions that outstand for their relevance and impact of their research regarding the study on wildlife in Europe, and knowledge transfer in the field of management and conservation in the natural environment.
Manel Puigcerver, lecturer at the Faculty of Education and collaborator at the Faculty of Biology, has been honoured with the International Union of Game Biologists Jan Van Haaften 2019 Award. This entity promotes the improvement of knowledge, conservation and management of wildlife in the natural habitat.
Since 2013, this award distinguishes people and institutions that outstand for their relevance and impact of their research regarding the study on wildlife in Europe, and knowledge transfer in the field of management and conservation in the natural environment.
With a PhD in biological sciences, Manel Puigcerver is a tenure university lecturer at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Education, and Teaching and Learning of Experimental Sciences and Mathematics of the Faculty of Education. Puigcerver focused his research activity on the field of biology didactics, and on the study of the biology and etiology of the common quail (Coturnix coturnix), a migratory species from the Phasianidae family which is usually found in areas with plant vegetation around the peninsula.
This species of venery interest is popular among several countries of the Mediterranean area, and is threatened by several factors, such as the transformation of agronomy, the loss of breeding habitats, the genetic hybridization with venery purposes and the lack of protection measures. Manel Puigcerver has worked on the knowledge on biology, ecology and behaviour of this species for more than thirty years.
This long term study enabled obtaining a better knowledge of the species, as well as the launch of the design of proposals to provide a better management and conservation of these populations in the natural environment. In these lines of work, Manel Puigcerver has directly collaborated with Professor José Domingo Rodríguez Teijeiro, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the UB, and head of the Consolidated Research Group on Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation of Biodiversity.