On Friday, April 12, we received a call from Madeira, where we are carrying out a LIFE project with the Mediterranean monk seal. In that archipelago we had only seen them in Madeira and Desertas, but that Friday a seal had appeared in another of…

Here the link to the article recently appeared in El País Semanal, signed by José Naranjo and that summarizes and updates the information of the monk seal colony in Cabo Blanco. https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/02/11/eps/1549900482_069858.html?id_externo_rsoc=FB_CC

On December 26, a new maximum was broken in the periodic counts of individuals that we do every week in each breeding cave. There were no fewer than 149 individuals together on the beach inside the Cave 3. Adding the samples counted in the other…

Our Greek colleagues invited us to participate in a LIFE project that takes place in Andros, the northernmost island of the Cyclades. Due to its proximity to Evia, it is a connecting link between the Cyclades and the islands of the western Aegean, a fact…

On Friday, May 11, the first exhibition about the species in Spain entitled “The Return of the Monk Seal” was inaugurated at the Faunia facilities, in order to raise awareness and make known to the general public about the monk seal of the Mediterranean. We…

AIZA, the Iberian Association of Zoos and Aquariums, has granted us this year, in the category of “Projects of Conservation and Investigation in situ 2018″ its annual prize. It is very good news for all of us, because they have rewarded our work in Madeira,…

Footage of the action “Protection of caves of interest used by monk seals using photo tramp cameras”. LIFE13NAT/ES/000974 Life Madeira Monk Seal.

The LIFE IP INTEMARES, is the largest project of conservation of the marine environment in Europe. It aims to achieve a consolidated network of marine areas of the Natura 2000 Network, managed efficiently, with the active participation of the sectors involved and with research as…

A few years ago, we baptized with the name of Jean Paul Taris cave 7, in honor of one of the people who most believed and supported our project from the MAVA Foundation, and who died in 2015. Recently we have received the visit of…