Drones to help track Spain’s Iberian lynx
29 de December de 2015
Link to the original article: ABC
The Minister of the Environment, José Fiscal; The president of the Fundación Caja Rural del Sur, José Luis García Palacios, and the director of the publication Natura hoy.com, José Montero, presided over the awards ceremony for the ten best ideas on Tuesday at the headquarters of the financial entity to save nature, an initiative of the aforementioned magazine whose main protagonists are its readers, who choose the winners with their votes.
The Kowagunga association, specialized in the protection of sea turtles.
Friends of the Sierra Morena Wolf, for a documentary about this animal.
SEO Bird Life-BBVA Foundation, for a bird tracking application.
The FIEB-Telefónica Foundation, for the use of new technologies in defense of the environment.
The Ríos con Vida association, which fights for the conservation of these river spaces.
The Seprona of the Civil Guard, for his career in the defense of nature.
The General Foundation of the CSIC-Banco de Santander, for a series of research projects, including the sequencing of the Iberian lynx genome.
The companies Microsensory-ENEL Greenpower, for manufacturing a drone to locate lynx.
The General Directorate of Natural Environment Management of the Ministry of the Environment, for a project for the prevention of forest fires through grazing.
Both José Fiscal and José Luis García Palacios have highlighted the importance of the effort being made at the official level as well as in the private sphere to conserve nature, and a palpable example is in those awarded by the readers of Natura hoy.com, whose director, José Montero, underlined how essential ideas are to achieve that goal.
In his address, the Minister for the Environment alluded to the fact that the European Commission has just approved a new Life project for the recovery of the Iberian wolf in Andalusia, which is coordinated by the Ministry and in which various NGOs participate. José Fiscal has indicated that it is a work that will cover a wide space of time with the aim of returning the wolf to traditional areas of Andalusia. The counselor pointed out that in recent months the scientific-technical committee of the Life project has been convened to assess the cataloging of the wolf as an endangered species in the region, and this is how it has been proposed to the last Andalusian Biodiversity Council, the main body consultative, and shortly, he has assured, it will be considered as such.
