Bonelli’s eagle in Catalonia: from threat to conservation

Power line accidents and human persecution have caused more than 95% of Bonelli’s eagle deaths occurred in Catalonia for the last decades. The monograph El águila perdicera en Cataluña: de la amenaza a la conservación. Aplicaciones a la mitigación de la electrocución points out that the application of some correction measures in power lines is a key strategy to reduce the number of electrocuted birds —the main cause of death for the species— in natural environments. The publication is signed by experts Joan Real, Antonio Hernández Matías, Àlex Rollan and Albert Tintó, members of the Conservation Biology Group, a research group affiliated with the Department of Animal Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, together with the company Endesa.

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