GEDAi on Streaming: La Resistencia Cientifica!

 A. Sanz-Aguilar explains the ecology and behaviour of the Storm Petrel and other vertebrates. LA RESISTENCIA CIENTIFICA 2.0 .  Here min. 25

SEAGHOSTS on the air!

Dr A Sanz Aguilar illustrates the SEAGHOSTS projects. Its aims and partners. Meanwhile she tells us about the ecology and behaviour of this extraordinary petrel. In Spanish: here

Protected areas on the news!

Dr. A. Santangeli explains here why protected areas are insufficient to reduce the current biodiversity loss. They should be larger, better connected but efforts should be made outside the areas with a more sustainable agricultures and practices. 

The interview is framed by the scientific work of Dr. Santangeli and his colleagues (here).

Shearwaters on the news!

 J.-M. Igual explains the  breeding biology of Cory's Shearwaters and the importance of long-term monitoring to identify threats. The full interview here.

Lizards on air !

A. Rotger explains the insularity syndrome at the radio program NAUTILUS (in catalan) - min 26.35  here

Monk seal on the News!

The Monk Seal hit the news! An interview about the findings from the study by Valsecchi et al. on the local News (here).

 

 

Seabirds on the news!

Photo: Victor Paris

 J.-M. Igual wrote an overview of what we know about seabirds, what has been done and about the actions that should be undertaken for their conservation. He resumes in few lines his thirty-year experience working with these amazing birds. Read the full text (in spanish) here

 

 

Balearic Shearwater on the news!

 Maria Martin Pérez explains at the "España Directo" the ecology of the Balearic Shearwater. Here (min 24) and a short version here.

GEDA on Air and at the Science Week 2019 !

A. Sanz-Aguilar a Balear Fa Ciencia (min 26) explained the Speed Dating with Researchers and introduced the Storm Petrel, the smallest seabird. The GEDA will be at the Science Speed Dating this Monday (more information here).

Urban Ecology on the air, each saturday at BFC

Each Saturday morning at "Balear Fa Ciencia", Alvaro Luna will share his experience on the study the ecology of those animals that live in the urban enviornment. Here his last interview of Saturday 20th of July 2019 (at 32'45'') about the decrease of once common species.

Wind Power and Biodiversity

A. Sanz-Aguilar has collaborated on the video "Wind Power and Biodiversity" (in Spanish) where vultures are sentinels of Wind Power mortality.

Press release !

The last work published by members of the GEDA received media attention:

REWILDING (here)

• IMEDEA press release
• CSiC Press note
• ‘Rewilding’ o cómo dejar que la naturaleza recupere su estado salvaje (La Vanguardia)
• ‘Rewilding’ o cómo dejar que la naturaleza recupere su estado salvaje (Sinc)
• El impacto del 94% de las especies exóticas marinas se desconoce (El País)
• Científicos piden revisar los proyectos de restauración de los ecosistemas (La Vanguardia)
• Lo mejor que podemos hacer con la España vacía no es repoblarla sino llenarla de bichos (El confidencial)
• 'Rewilding' o cómo dejar que la naturaleza recupere su estado salvaje (Público)
• Un grupo de investigadores propone una aproximación para ayudar a que los ecosistemas sean sostenibles (Dicyt)
• ‘Rewilding’ o cómo dejar que la naturaleza recupere su estado salvaje (El Boletin)
• Científicos piden revisar los proyectos de restauración de los ecosistemas (El Periódico)
• Investigadores proponen una aproximación para ayudar a que los ecosistemas sean sostenibles (PersonXXI)
• Investigadores ayudan a Ecosistemas Sostenibles (Revistanuve)
• Piden revisar la restauración de los ecosistemas (La Razón)
• Claves para crear ecosistemas realmente sostenibles (Elclickverde)

RED KITE IN SOUTHERN SPAIN (here)

• IMEDEA press release
• CSIC Press Note 
• Video Youtube en El Pais:https://youtu.be/yUNGQs7rsUE 
• Reportaje EL PAIShttps://elpais.com/elpais/2019/04/24/ciencia/1556126835_752317.html 
• Reportaje LAANGUARDIAhttps://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20190425/461857772258/cientificos-advierten-de-la-extincion-del-milano-real-en-andalucia-en-20-anos.html 
• Reportaje Natura Hoyhttp://www.naturahoy.com/naturaleza/el-milano-real-esta-al-borde-de-la-extincion-en-andalucia/ 
• Reportaje La Sexta https://www.lasexta.com/tecnologia-tecnoxplora/sinc/milano-real-borde-extincion-andalucia_201904255cc1aeb60cf2e2c19b6d356c.html 
• Video en MSNhttps://www.msn.com/es-es/deportes/futbol/el-milano-real-est%C3%A1-al-borde-de-la-extinci%C3%B3n-en-el-sur-de-espa%C3%B1a/vi-BBWhxbr 
• Reportaje Europa Presshttps://www.europapress.es/andalucia/noticia-milano-real-puede-desaparecer-andalucia-dentro-20-anos-si-no-toman-medidas-estudio-csic-20190425142843.html 
• Reportaje The World News https://theworldnews.net/es-news/el-milano-real-esta-al-borde-de-la-extincion-en-el-sur-de-espana

Storm Petrel on the local news!

The Storm Petrel was on the news today. Dr.a Ana Sanz-Aguilar of the GEDA explains the ecology of the species and its distribution in the Balearic archipelago!  Full interview in Catalan here
 

Egyptian Vultures on Spanish National TV !

The work by A. Sanz-Aguilar and colleagues (here) was presented on National TV (LaSexta channel, Estacion La Sexta 25/02/2019). The report correctly insists on education as a key factor for the success al effort in wildlife conservation programs.  The egyptian voluture in Canary Islands is a successful example of scientific-based conservation actions conducted in parallel with educational programs.

GEDA at "Meteo y Natura"

Ana Sanz-Aguilar explains the results from a meta-analysis investigating whether seabirds adapt their breeding phenology to the recent warming of the sea temperature. The study used the long-term data of nearly 200 seabird populations. Among them those studied by the GEDA. The full interview can be viewed here (at min 4:30)

Yellow-legged gulls on Air

Saturday 07/04/2018 at 12h15, speaking about Yellow-Legged Gulls, their movements and their ecology, at "Balears fa Ciència" (min 19).  Here

The Balearic Wall Lizard on the news !

Today, on IB3 Radio News, we speak about the Balearic Lizard with Marga Riera. A short talk about the GEDA's research on this unique, endemic species.
Here (at min. 40).

APHIS under the spotlight !

The software APHIS for individual photo-identification developed by the GEDA in collaboration with Dr. Ó. Moya (Fundacion IBIT) was on IB3 news today! 
APHIS builds on an existing approach (I3S) adding the possibility to process photos in batches and the original ITM procedure which minimizes pre-processing time.

You can see the interview here.
A press release from IMEDEA here

The software can be downloaded for free here.