“Materia Viva”: Biodiversity, humor and memory in conversation with Jorge Comensal

This week in Primer Círculo, Carlos Elizondo and Federico Reyes Heroles receive essayist Jorge Comensal to talk about his book “Materia Viva”, a book that mixes chronicles about biodiversity and personal reflections. He highlights the relevance of species such as zopilots and condors — carrion birds essential for ecological balance — and the California condor rescue project in Baja California, almost extinct by lead in ammunition. Comensal, with…

Seville, 15 Apr (EFE).- Planting on banks or edges of roads indigenous species adapted to the climate and creating puddles or artificial nests for birds, among other actions, has allowed to recover the biodiversity and profitability of dry crops in more than 500 hectares of farms of Castile and León, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Aragon and Andalusia. It is the project Secanos Vivos, of the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO/BirdLife), which…

It gathers testimonies from field technicians, researchers and above all the evaluation of some farmers participating in the project that apply in their plots the measures that we propose to restore biodiversity in their crops and transform it into profitability. Bustards, sesons, European turtles, gangas, cinizos eagles and stencils primillas, cogujas, mochuelos, cranes, lizards, butterflies... they fly, otea or run through fields of vine and c…