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• Saturday afternoon

  Adrián Ordieres and Naia Pascual – Deconstructed images. Nature photography masterclass

  Adrián Ordieres and Naia Pascual are two nature and wildlife photographers from Asturias, ambassadors of the OM-System brand. Throughout this talk, we will discover some of the photographs we have taken in recent years. We will show each step of the process, from camera settings to tricks used in the field. We will explore images...

• Saturday afternoon

  Alberto Saiz and Víctor Ortega – Presentation and première of the documentary “A Year of Wild Love”

  Alberto Saiz and Víctor Ortega are photographers and videographers who collaborate with Fujifilm and are passionate about nature and wildlife. In this tenth edition of the festival, they will present their documentary “A Year of Wild Love” for the first time. In the Natural World, reproduction is the drive that ensures life. In this documentary...

• Friday

  Alejandra Rendón – From Birding to Bird Photography

  Alejandra Rendón is an engineer and doctor in Computational Chemistry, originally from Medellín and currently living in Barcelona. She started out as a birdwatcher and currently she also dedicates much of her time to wildlife photography and is a Girls Who Click ambassator. Because… how many of us have had it happen that the passion...

• Saturday afternoon

  Carles Durà – Cuerpo de solidaridad europeo: montando una estación biológica en el Montseny

  Carles Durà es un biólogo de campo especializado en ornitología y biología de la conservación, que actualmente trabaja como director de la Estación Biológica del Montseny, donde además de alojar a científicos que realizan estudios en el Montseny, también se desarrolla el proyecto de voluntariado del Cuerpo Europeo de Solidaridad (European Solidarity Corps), ubicado en...

• Saturday afternoon

  Carles Santana – PAINT AND PHOTOGRAPH SPAIN’S NATURE. A project of tourism excellence within the framework of the “Plan for Modernization and Competitiveness of the Tourism Sector”

  Wildlife observation assisted with specialized guides and even with specific infrastructures such as hides, observation screens or others has become a regular tourist activity in our country. Foreign visitors and local public demand these services. And in order to achieve excellence, a group of companies in the sector representing various tourist destinations throughout the state...

• Sunday

  Emma Guinart – The Kentish plover and the Sisyphus myth. Future strategies and lines of action

  Emma Guinart is an environmentalist with a special interest in ecology and conservation biology, and also in the different methods of population estimation of some species. She is a founding member of the Pelagicus association and currently works at Natura Montfred, a company dedicated to the conservation of protected and threatened species in Catalonia. At...

• Sunday

  Jordina Baucells – Study of the white-throated dipper in the Riera Major (DBF Junior)

  Jordina is a 16-year-old girl, ornithologist and passionate about nature. She has been chasing birds since she was little, taking her father’s hobby and turning it into her own. In this DBF Jordina will present her research work on the study of white-throated dippers in the Riera Major. We always tend to focus more on...

• Saturday morning

  Laura Sánchez – Challenging extinction: Sea Shepherd and the vaquita protection

  Laura is a marine biologist and conservationist and has worked for the NGO Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for 7 years. This organization is dedicated to the protection of the World’s oceans, and Laura has dedicated her time to the campaign that fights to save the most endangered marine mammal: the vaquita. This Mexican porpoise, of...

• Saturday morning

  Marcel Gil and Guillermo Rodríguez – Waders’ identification

  Marcel Gil is an ornithologist and expert ringer with experience in migration campaigns, both in Catalonia and at the Falsterbo Observatory, Sweden, and Guillermo Rodríguez, is an ornithologist specialized in coastal birds and birds of prey. In recent years, the detailed study of wading birds has allowed us to understand their migratory routes at the...

• Sunday

  Santos Casado – Nature for everyone. Old and new nature benefits for people.

  Santos Casado is a Doctor in Biological Sciences and Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He defends that nature conservation has fought, for the last one hundred and fifty years, to keep ecosystems and habitats alive and functional, with all their species. The creation of protected areas, such...