The CREAF Talk video about animal innovation by Louis Lefebvre

The SPEAR science team will also study waterbird species that are weakened by human hunting activity and assess the benefits of wetlands. Photo: Morgan Newnham.

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Conserving birds and critical habitats in the context of climate change, focus of the new SPEAR project

The international consortium in charge of the project includes specialists from 8 research centers, 6 conservation groups, UNEP, Wetlands International, Stichting BirdLife Europe and Eurosite.

Adriana Clivillé 13 de June de 2023

A ‘pocket forest’ in a reused skip (Source: Pocket Forests)

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Innovating with urban forests to meet the Sustainable Development Goals

Uforest reveals the path of innovation in urban forestry and identifies opportunities to deploy new initiatives with urban forests.

Florencia Florido 3 de October de 2022

Corvids and psittacines (pictured above) are more innovative in their behaviour than pigeons and pheasants (below). They also have larger brains relative to their size, resulting from the accumulation of more neurons in the pallium, and a longer development time after hatching.

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What makes some animals more intelligent than others?

Ever since Darwin, scientists have suspected that the intelligence of an animal has something to do with the size of its brain. The encephalisation theory,

Anna Ramon 14 de July de 2022

The hoopoe (Upupa epops) is a migratory bird widespread in Europe, Asia and Africa. Image: Daniel Sol

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Climate change affects birds in Europe and North-America differently than in the Mediterranean, and could expose them to a climate trap

The behavior of bird communities in Europe and in the United States and Canada due to climate change is different than in the Mediterranean area.

Anna Ramon 17 de February de 2021

Mascle de llucareta (Carduelis citrinella), una de les espècies incloses en l'estudi. Foto: Antoni Borràs.

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The climate is changing faster than animals can adapt

A study just published in the scientific journal Nature Communications presents worrying results on animals’ adaptation to climate change. It concludes that while species are

Anna Ramon 24 de July de 2019

Monticola saxatilis (ICO - Fons fotogràfic Àngel Biosca i Farré): www.creaf.uab.cat/fotosprensa/Monticola_saxatilis.jpg

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Mountain birds in decline in Europe

CREAF and ICO (Catalan Ornithological Institute) researchers Sergi Herrando and Lluís Brotons have participated in a study that shows populations of birds described as “mountain

Anna Ramon 28 de January de 2019

The CREAF Talk video about animal innovation by Louis Lefebvre

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The CREAF Talk video about animal innovation by Louis Lefebvre

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Conserving birds and critical habitats in the context of climate change, focus of the new SPEAR project

Innovating with urban forests to meet the Sustainable Development Goals

What makes some animals more intelligent than others?

Climate change affects birds in Europe and North-America differently than in the Mediterranean, and could expose them to a climate trap

The climate is changing faster than animals can adapt

Mountain birds in decline in Europe

We've changed the wordpress version If you prefer to read this news in Spanish or Catalan from 2020 to 2012, go to the front page of the blog, change the language with the selector in the upper menu and look for the news in the magnifying glass bar.

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