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Bruno Martin
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Bruno Martin

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Science communicator, sometimes journalist (him). Concerned about the climate crisis. British and Spanish. Queer and feminist. Tuiteo en inglés y español.

Madrid, España
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    Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

    1/ A vulture can fly up to 400 kilometres each day in search of carrion. Little should it care whether this flight takes it from one country to another. The vultures of Spain, however, skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy.pic.twitter.com/UE9kjuXWK5

    Data collected by Arrondo et. al (2018) by tagging 71 vultures.
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      2. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        2/ Eneko Arrondo (@BIOEAF), an ecologist at the Doñana Biological Station (@ebdonana), in Spain, was monitoring the distribution of 60 tagged griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) and 11 cinereous vultures (Aegypius monachus) for his PhD project when he noticed the sharp pattern.pic.twitter.com/FpwUtfbHIX

        Griffon vulture (left) and cinereous vulture (right). Photo (C) by David Serrano Aceituno.
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      3. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        3/ During a 2-year study period, only 13 birds visited Portugal, and they all quickly turned back, Arrondo and his colleagues reported last year in Bio. Conservation. Why the rest flew close to the neighbouring country, but never entered it, was a mystery.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320717315550 …

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      4. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        4/ The Portuguese-Spanish border follows river valleys and is not associated with abrupt changes in climate or land-use. What is different on either side, the team learned from Portuguese ornithologists, is the law.pic.twitter.com/8au6Do7CLm

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      5. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        5/ Spanish farmers don’t collect dead cattle, but in Portugal, they must bury or burn all carcasses. This leaves no food for vultures, who have learned that the grass is always greener on the eastern side.pic.twitter.com/navevCqI4g

        Griffon vultures eating carrion in Spain. Photo (C) by David Serrano Aceituno.
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      6. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        6/ A handful of nesting colonies remain in Portugal, says Joaquim Teodósio, a biologist working for the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (@spea_birdlife), but the vultures that occupy them spend the daylight hours abroad.

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      7. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        7/ The reasons for the mismatch are historical. In 2001, Europe’s answer to the mad-cow disease (BSE) crisis was banning the abandonment of dead livestock. Spanish vultures, which account for 95% of all scavenging birds in Europe, suffered especially. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/ES/TXT/?qid=1456745645114&uri=CELEX:02001R0999-20160203 …

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      8. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        8/ Conservationists at the time made a strong case against the ban, which convinced European Union 🇪🇺 legislators to delegate the choice to member states. Some countries, like Spain, resumed cattle abandonment under special conditions. Portugal never changed its laws.pic.twitter.com/GM6MsztkEN

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      9. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        9/ Representatives of BirdLife International, a nature conservation partnership, in both countries (@SEO_BirdLife 🇪🇸 / @spea_birdlife 🇵🇹) argue wildlife will benefit from the integration of sanitary policies across European borders.

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      10. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        10/ It's not just vultures at stake: the collection, transportation and disposal of dead animals is costly and polluting.pic.twitter.com/j8Lc5ddZEM

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      11. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        11/ One study, published in Scientific Reports, calculated that taking these jobs from scavengers in Spain involved annual payments of around $50 million to insurance companies and the emission of 77,344 metric tons of equivalent carbon dioxide every year.https://www.nature.com/articles/srep07811 …

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      12. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        12/ Activists in Portugal are pushing for change. They ask for carrion abandonment permits for farmers, or at least for designated feeding stations where dead cattle may be allowed to rot. Until such measures are granted, an invisible ecological barrier hovers above the border.pic.twitter.com/HJVxOOs7Jd

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      13. Bruno Martin‏ @TurbanMinor 3 Apr 2019

        13/ This story was published in Spanish for El País last year. Lo recordé hace poco por una conversación y quería compartir en inglés. Dejo aquí el enlace:https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/02/15/ciencia/1518707418_741915.html …

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