Portugal and Spain in a project to learn about and improve the condition of the wild rabbit – Observer
The Portuguese and Spanish entities will develop a project to learn about and improve the state of wild rabbit populations in the Iberian Peninsula, with scientists and researchers, hunters, associations and government bodies.
The project, called LIFE, aims to optimize, a fundamental species in the Mediterranean, “explains a great management of the communication rabbit, a fundamental species in the Mediterranean”.
LIbercoelho Espanha will be chosen by the environmentalist organization WWF and will be developed in two countries.
In a statement to Associação Natureza Portugal (ANP), which works in association with the WWF (“World Wide Fund for Nature”), it says that one of the challenges in relation to the rabbit is a lack of the current state of information and its economic impacts. .
“A second challenge has to do with the lack of consensus on best management practices and the lack of governance that integrates the different scale actions and work coordination of different entities and interests”, says the ANP/WWF, adding that “The state of populations of the wild rabbit state, its been causing in certain regions, an essential starting point for a good management of the species” is needed.
The memory that the wild rabbit plays a fundamental role as prey for 40 species of seiners (such as the Iberian lynx or the imperial eagle), has great socioeconomic impact and is one of the species that causes more damage to agriculture.
In the last 70 years, wild rabbit populations in the Iberian Peninsula have declined by more than 90% Due to land use changes and diseases, noting, explaining that this led the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to declare it as “Threatened with Extinction” in 2019.
The LIFE Program is a Community financial instrument developed for the environment.