Documentary on Berlangas archipelago and SPEA's FAME work for conservation

Within FAME project, SPEA develops several conservation actions in Berlengas archipelago, including the census, breeding success study, and tracking of Cory´s Shearwater, construction of artificial nests, colony monitoring and individual tracking of Madeiran Storm-petrel in Farilhão Grande, the species Northern most stronghold. A team of NGO Aid Nature, accompanied the SPEA field crew in some of these trips, and the result is an excellent documentary, which aims to raise public awareness of the importance of these islands in the context of  Portuguese marine conservation, and the work SPEA has been undertaking.
Watch the full video on http://vimeo.com/39305531

 

 

 

 Madeiran Storm-Petrel census and tracking work in Farilhão Grande

FAME Meeting and Coastal census workshop in Santander. 6th-9th March

Working hard during the FAME Meeting

The great Meeting place at la Maruca, Santander

The FAME Meeting guys

Ivan Ramírez from SPEA and BirdLife during the Coastal census workshop

People listening to Phil Taylor from BirdLife

Pep Arcos from SEO/BirdLife during the Coastal census workshop

Very nice lunch breaks with traditional Cantabrican food

FAME aux journées de la Migration

FRANCE- Les 4e rencontres annuelles de la mission Migration se sont déroulées du 3 au 5 février 2012 à l'Aiguillon sur Mer en Vendée.
4th Annual Meeting of Migration Group took place from the 3rd to the 5th of February 2012 in Aiguillon sur Mer (Vendée, France)

Parmi les interventions, l'équipe française LPO du programme FAME a pu:
- présenter les premiers résultats des suivis côtiers,
- présenter l'exposition en construction sur les oiseaux marins.

Among the talks, FAME french staff could:
- present the coastal censuses first results
- present the exhibit in development about seabirds

Le radar ornithologique a également pu être présenté à la centaine de participants par la LPO et la société Azimut, qui l'accompagne dans le développement de cet outil. 

Ornithologic radar was also presented to the 100 attended people, by LPO and Azimut, the consulting company that helps the French BirdLife partner in developing this technology.

Retrouvez les interventions de ces journées sur/ read more about the talks :
http://www.migraction.net/index.php?m_id=1164#N954

Spain opens the public process to designate 41 marine Special Protection Areas (SPAs), totalling almost 50,000 km2

On 18 October, the Spanish government purposed the creation of 41 marine Special Protection Areas (SPAs). Once designated, this will be the first complete national network of marine SPAs in Europe based on solid and specifically directed research, posing a model for other countries. Previous experiences were restricted to small, coastal sites, or areas in enclosed seas such as the North Sea, but had missed offshore waters in the Atlantic Ocean.

With this very good new we open the FAME blog, a blog that aims to spread the actions related with the FAME project and the marine protection and management actions conducted in the Atlantic area.

Deeping into the Spanish issue, the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM) proposal mirrors the marine Important Bird Areas (IBA) inventory elaborated by SEO/BirdLife via EC funded LIFE Project Marine IBAs in Spain (2004-2009) and complemented via LIFE+ INDEMARES. Only three of the 44 areas have been left aside, as their limits extend beyond Spanish waters and new limits for the SPAs have to be studied. One of such areas is the Strait of Gibraltar, within the Atlantic Area.

FAME project has contributed to the lobby action necessary for this achievement. Moreover, it will largely contribute to gain the necessary knowledge and liaison with the stakeholders for the management of the new SPAs, as well as to the management of the entire Atlantic marine environment.