{"id":2334,"date":"2012-05-11T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2012-05-11T16:51:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:51:58","slug":"conservation-award-for-madeira-monk-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/11\/conservation-award-for-madeira-monk-seals\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation award for Madeira monk seals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Rosa Pires, Parque Natural da Madeira Service<\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2335\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2335\" title=\"BES biodiversity award\" src=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BES-biodiversity-award-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BES-biodiversity-award-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BES-biodiversity-award-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BES-biodiversity-award-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BES-biodiversity-award-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BES-biodiversity-award.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The prize ceremony took place on May 7 in Lisbon, and was attended by the Portuguese Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Sea and Land Management, Assun\u00e7\u00e3o Cristas. Photo: Pablo Larrinoa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The project &#8220;Monk Seal \u2014 a recovering species in Madeira\u201d of the Parque Natural da Madeira Service was the project winner of the 2012 BES Biodiversity award.<\/p>\n<p>The award is an initiative of the Portuguese bank Esp\u00edrito Santo in partnership with the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) of Porto University and the Institute for Nature Conservation and Biodiversity (ICNB).<\/p>\n<p>Awarded annually, BES Biodiversity is currently the largest Portuguese award for research and business activity in environmental conservation and aims to recognize innovative research projects, conservation and biodiversity management in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BES press release, the fifth edition of this award was devoted to the theme &#8220;Biodiversity: Research and Conservation&#8221; and sought to distinguish conservation research projects with a strong practical component and results. The prize was awarded in recognition of the unique work in preservation and recovery of the endangered Mediterranean monk seal.<\/p>\n<p>With the project prize, 75.000 Euros, the Parque Natural da Madeira Service intends to maintain the solid and continuous work that has been done in Madeira through the involvement of Madeira citizens in the monk seals\u2019 protection, through the surveillance of their habitat and through improvement of the monitoring system by using automatic cameras. This task will link the Parque Natural da Madeira Service and the CBD-Habitat Foundation of Spain, which is already using this system to monitor monk seals in the Western Sahara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosa Pires, Parque Natural da Madeira Service The project &#8220;Monk Seal \u2014 a recovering species in Madeira\u201d of the Parque Natural da Madeira Service was the project winner of the 2012 BES Biodiversity award. The award is an initiative of the Portuguese bank Esp\u00edrito Santo in partnership with the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/11\/conservation-award-for-madeira-monk-seals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conservation award for Madeira monk seals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediterranean-news","category-med-monk-seal","category-madeira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}