Barcelona Zoo Foundation awards eight grants to research and innovation projects

The Barcelona Zoo Foundation has awarded eight grants to projects in research, conservation, protection and the preservation of wild fauna and biodiversity. The process to choose the projects took into account the leadership of young pre or post-doctoral researchers. The goal is for Barcelona Zoo Foundation grants to become a tool in the support and development of their research careers.

06/05/2023 10:38 h

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The winning projects were chosen by a jury of professionals from the science community and will receive an overall sum of 71,219 euros. They are:

  • Evaluation of the measures to recover the meadows of the Montseny Natural Park and biodiversity using the northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) as an indicator.
  • Technological and bioacoustic approximation to the monitoring of colonies of woodland bats.
  • Does fowlpox affect the population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) in Barcelona?
  • Endemism, bats and rice: studying the role of bats as natural controllers of agricultural infestations in Madagascar.
  • Implementation of a study and follow-up of the world’s rarest weasel, the Colombian weasel (Mustela felipei).
  • Presence and seasonality of the bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) in deep waters in the North-eastern Mediterranean – implications for its conservation.
  • Acoustic study of the distribution of amphibians in the lower section of the Tordera river: in search of a species in regression.
  • Harp-Cam: a new citizen science method for capturing the cryptic diversity of bats.

Part of the Barcelona Zoo Foundation’s Research and Conservation Programme (PRIC), the annual grant call reached its 14th edition this year.

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