The population of Quebrantahuesos of the Picos de Europa National Park continues to recover And has already Enough copies to make the type independent. This has been noted by the director of the Foundation for the preservation of Quebrantahuesos (FCQ)” Gerardo Báguena, who is “optimistic” with regard to the future of this bird in the Cantabrian mountain range, where he dies out.
The majority of the introduced broken has been handed over by the Government of AragonAn autonomous community with around 400 Brokenhuesos and more than 90 reproductive pairs.
The goal is that European Pico’s reach a population “Self -supportable, to keep it alone, that it can grow and form a founder“Said the director of the Foundation for the preservation of Quebrantahuesos (FCQ).
The breakthrough, the only bird that feeds on stays bone, runs through a wide territorial surface to consume a bone, a resource “spread, random and that is not very abundantthat requires an average of nine hours a day flight day.
The species takes half of seven years to reproduce and the annual setting is only one or two eggs, so the survival of each sample is so important.
On average it is estimated that a breakthrough up to 42 years in captivity and almost half lives, from 20 to 22, when it is released. “It is very difficult. They are confronted with hunger, cold, accidents, competition with other species,” says Báguena.
The role of farmers with the breakthrough
The director of the Foundation for the preservation of Quebrantahuesos (FCQ) ensures that they are ‘excited’ from the base because It has been achieved that the retention of the breakthrough is not only limited to the biological field, but also to social. According to Báguena, this species is “present and prosperous in those places where the food has insured.”
‘We have the support of the sector that bases it, livestock farming and, thanks to this, the possibility that the species will consolidate and be well guaranteedA, “he said.
Picos National Park in Europe
Three breeding pairs of cheese They have succeeded in moving forward in the Picos National Park in Europe So many chicks, Two in nests in the Cantabrian zone, and another in the Asturian part.
He Breeding process In freedom of the breakdown It is usually extended to the middle of the Juneat what time the chickens are prepared to start flying, so if there are no setbacks, These three new samples are added to the 37 Quebrantahuesos which, thanks to the reintroduction project, the Picos de Europa already live.
Members of the Foundation for the preservation of Quebrantahuesos (FCQ)In collaboration with agents of the MilieukwekerijThey have documented the birth of these descendants that assume that the greatest reproductive success since the Types of reintroduction project in 2010.
Five reproductive pairs
A total of five reproductive couples were detected this year, although, though One of them has not included breeding and another does not know their situationBecause it changed its champion area, with an average age of 4.3 years, while they only pick up for the first time in the Pyrenees after nine years.
Cantabrical reproductive pairs, followed by the biologists team of the Foundation for the preservation of Quebrantahuesos (FCQ) and agents of the Milieukwekerij” They come from eggs saved from critical situations in the Aragonese Pyrenees, incubated and raised in captivity and released in Picos de Europe thanks to the free assignment from the Aragon government.
According to the Foundation for the preservation of Quebrantahuesos (FCQ)Weld Early reproductive ages are a common pattern In emerging populations of large Raptors.
Co -xistence between extensive sheep and breakstakes
The areas that the Brokenhuesos choose coincide with areas where they actively work on the Restoration of extensive sheep Through the Pro-biodiversity guarantee brand.
Currently, there are 21 Cantabrian and Asturian Farmers who graze More than 5,000 sheep and that work together with the foundation for the conservation of the breakdown (FCQ) in the Development of Initiatives to Make Up Thirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of theirity of Expreaity of.
He Breaking Recovery Program It is performed by a Life project with the government of Cantabria, the government of Aragon, the principality of Asturia, the Junta de Castilla y Leónand the autonomous organism of national parks.
OneThe aim is to accompany the restoration of the breakthrough with that of extensive cattle. In that sense, the Foundation for the preservation of Quebrantahuesos (FCQ) It is led by the principles promoted by the new European regulations for the recovery of the environmentAccording to which the restoration of biological processes should go hand in hand with social -economic initiatives that show that Living with balanced biodiversity is no problemBut a chance.