The Capture-Recapture-Recovery Workshop 2016 has ended : see you next year !

The introductory course on “CAPTURE-RECAPTURE AND CAPTURE–RECOVERY ANALYSIS FOR THE STUDY OF ANIMAL POPULATIONS” has ended. 
It has been an occasion to share thoeretical and practical aspects of CMR analyses, to learn about snails, feral cats, tropical frogs & Co.  See you next year, last week of November! (visit also our facebook page)

Gull Shopping

Photo: Björn Marten Philipps

Björn Marten Philipps from the Wadden Sea Conservation Station was visiting Palma when bumped into our GSM/GPS equipped gull shopping and scavenging at the Mercat de l'Olivar. 

Thank you very much for the picture, Björn! 

G.E.P. at IZW in Berlin

Ana Sanz-Aguilar has been invited to present her work on Estimating Recruitment and Survival in partially-monitored population at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin. 

Profesionales abstrusos, modelos complejos y conservación

La relación entre gestores de la conservación y académicos

Hace unos meses Joan Mayol, en uno de sus ensayos que regularmente publica en Quercus, afirmaba que "la conservación de la naturaleza le debe mucho a gente como Julio Verne, Emilio Salgari, Jack London o Miguel Delibes, mucho más que a algunos profesionales abstrusos que diseñan complejos modelos que les permiten pontificar y pretender elevarse sobre el común de los mortales". Anoto aquí que abstruso, según la RAE, significa "De difícil comprensión". Yo soy muy poco corporativista, pero me molestó tanto eso del "pontificar y pretender elevarse sobre el común de los mortales" que decidí escribir una réplica al Quercus, que aparece aquí abajo. Muchos académicos no somos pontífices, ni pretendemos elevarnos por encima de nadie. Y aquí me paro que me embalo.

G.E.P. at "I ´m a scientist, get me out of here!"

A. Payo-Payo will take part to the "I´m a scientist, get me out of here!" . It is a free online event where school students meet and interact with scientists. 

It’s an X Factor-style competition between scientists, where the students are the judges. Ana Payo-Payo will face other 20 scientists and respond to hig-school students questions over fast-paced online text-based liveCHATs. She will have to answer anything they want, and try to become their favourite. Will she manage to show them how cool are gulls and win a prize of £500 to communicate her  work to the general public.G-ull luck, Ana!!!

Workshop on Distance Sampling with the "Servei de Caça"

A. Rotger and G. Tavecchia organized a workshop on Distance Sampling techniques for the "Servei de Caça" of the "Consell de Mallorca". It has been very interesting to exchange ideas in game species monitoring. A nice interaction between theory and practice.