Iberianature » CSIC http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog A guide to Spain: environment, geography, nature, landscape, climate, culture, history, rural tourism and travel Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:57:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Success for Imperial Eagle in Doñana http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/2008/11/success-for-imperial-eagle-in-donana-2/ http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/2008/11/success-for-imperial-eagle-in-donana-2/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:25:37 +0000 nick http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/?p=705

Doñana has managed to halt the mortality of the Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberto). The annual number of chicks has tripled in the last three years from 3.5 to 10.5 chicks a year according to an article by scientists from CSIC in the ‘Journal of Applied Ecology’, thanks to a reduction in the use of poison in the areas surrounding Doñana. Between 1992 and 2004 there was a dramatic increase in annual adult mortality due to an increase in poisoning in hunting areas surrounding the park. “The use of poison against generalist predators accounted for more than 54% of the total number of breeding eagles found dead since 1990, increasing annual adult mortality from 6·07 to 12·01%.”

]]> http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/2008/11/success-for-imperial-eagle-in-donana-2/feed/ 0 New conservation management project for Cantabrian brown bear http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/2008/05/asturias-and-the-csic-to-work-together-on-new-conservation-management-project-for-cantabrian-brown-bear/ http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/2008/05/asturias-and-the-csic-to-work-together-on-new-conservation-management-project-for-cantabrian-brown-bear/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 12:34:35 +0000 Lisa http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/?p=586 Following the news of the creation of a third patrol for the Fundación Oso Pardo which will be financed by the Obra Social Caja Madrid to further and coordinate the work of the existing two, today comes news of a new investigation into the conservation management of the Cantabrian brown bear. The project will be headed by the environmental department of the Asturian government and the Doñana Research Centre of the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas). Yesterday, no lesser personages than Miguel Delibes de Castro, respected Spanish biologist and mammal expert, and one of the leading European brown bear experts, Jon Swenson, met in Asturias for a working meeting to oversee the start of the investigation which consists of three phases. First is a study of the demographic evolution of the Cantabrian bears in order to diagnose their current conservation status, followed by the identification of possible communication corridors and the analysis of damages to agriculture and livestock. Delibes and Swenson finished their meeting with José Félix García Gaona, head of the Asturian Biodiversity and Countryside Department (Biodiversidad y Paisaje) with a visit to Proaza from where the Asturian Bear Foundation (Fundación Oso Asturias) is sponsoring a doctoral thesis by Andrés Ordiz Fernández, titled “Análisis de patrones de movimiento y actividad del oso pardo en Europa. Aplicación a la conservación de pequeñas poblaciones amenazadas. El caso de la Cordillera Cantábrica.” (Analysis of patterns of movement and activity of the brown bear in Europe. Application of the conservation of small, endangered populations. The case of the Cantabrian mountains.)

Doubtless, they also visited Paca and Tola with their new, hopeful mate Furaco.

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