Mariona Sardà is a biologist with years of experience in seabird conservation and the use of technology applied to species monitoring. She has worked on conservation projects in Ireland, Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, and New Zealand, focusing on wildlife monitoring and habitat management.
During her talk, she will introduce Lady’s Island Lake, a shallow brackish coastal lagoon of great ecological importance located in southeast Wexford, Ireland. It is the only site in the country where all five breeding tern species of Ireland nest, and it hosts the second-largest colony of roseate tern in Europe, as well as the country’s most important colonies of sandwich tern, Arctic tern, black-headed gull, and gadwall.
Since the early 1980s, Ireland’s National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) has implemented a range of conservation measures aimed at maximizing the breeding success of terns, including population monitoring, habitat management, predator control, and the reduction of tourist disturbance at breeding sites.
