European River Restoration Conference (ERRC)

The conference was held in Vienna from 27 to 29 October. A poster was presented with the title: “Soil Bioengineering application in river restoration projects: case studies from Southern Portugal “. The following oral communication was also presented:...
Workshop Perspectives in Owl Conservation Work

Workshop Perspectives in Owl Conservation Work

After the success of the 2008 Seminar “Owls in Culture, Science and Conservation”, the LabOr-Laboratory of Ornithology, is organizing another similar event on owl conservation entitled “Perspectives in Owl Conservation Work”. After the success...
Rui Lourenço on BBC Earth News

Rui Lourenço on BBC Earth News

Rui Lourenço is ending his PhD at the University of Évora (UE) on superpredation and intraguild predation (IGP). He carried out his work at the UE and Estacion Biologica de Doñana under supervision of João E. Rabaça and Vincenzo Penteriani. One of his studies recently...
LabOr on wheels

LabOr on wheels

“Radio tracking owls (TytoTagus project) in the area of the Tagus Estuary is one of the tasks that LabOr – Laboratory of Ornithology is conducting. From January 2010 a new 4×4 vehicle has been used as a mobile telemetry unit. This will allow tacking...
RipiDurable on RTP’s ‘Biosfera’

RipiDurable on RTP’s ‘Biosfera’

On the 1st March 2010 the RipiDurable Project was presented in ‘Biosfera’, an environmental magazine broadcasted by public television. Ana Mendes, the project coordinator, spoke about the case study of the Paúl da Goucha in Alpiarça, and described the...