An international study with the participation of the Doñana Biological Station has described an unusual extinct taxon, named Christelenkidae, from a unique specimen preserved in amber, Christelenka multiplex.

An international team of scientists reveals in a new study that the abandonment of traditional livestock farming activities, such as transhumance, could be detrimental to scavenger communities. This activity has configured landscape across the world and has created ecosystems, which have benefited a great number of animal and plant species, including vultures. The research work has been carried out by scientists at the University of Granada, the Miguel Hernández University, the Doñana...

Scientists from the University of Leeds and the Spanish National Research Council say urgent protection is needed for the fragile Doñana wetlands in Andalusia as the result of the bill which sanctions illegal strawberry production in its immediate vicinity. The bill, which was approved by the regional government without any parliamentary debate, allows intensive irrigated strawberry farming on land originally devoted to forestry or rain-fed agriculture. 80% of the strawberries grown in the...

From 23 to 25 of May, wildlife monitoring experts from different European institutions in Europe, met in Brussels to discuss the results and evolution of the ENETWILD project, an initiative led by the Institute for Research on Hunting Resources (IREC) of the CSIC, in which the ICTS-RBD participates within the European Wildlife Observatory (EOW). ENEWILD started in 2018 and is funded by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The objective of the project is to harmonize methodologies for...

A scientific team with the participation of the Doñana Biological Station has compared for the first time efficiency of the work of taxonomists versus molecular methods to identify species.

The team has tested the combination of these two methods on non-biting midges, a group of insects, difficult to identify but crucial to monitoring water quality and ecosystems. They have developed a new framework for identifying majority of the species present in a sample by processing mere 10%...