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What is known about the Cock-of-the-rock? Though it is an emblematic species par excellence, its ecology is nevertheless little known. To learn more about its zones of reproduction and its distribution, GEPOG proposes to follow about ten individual birds by radio-tracking, to follow where they (…)

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Thierry Micol, the LPO expert on pest control, carried out his fieldwork for the A1 project for the preservation of the Réunion Cuckoo-shrike from 29th April to 13th May. After making a presentation to the participants concerned (ONF, DEAL, CG...) with SEOR and the National Park, three days (…)

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The Réunion National Park is one of the co-ordinators of the Life+ Cap DOM project, using its technical and scientific expertise to support SEOR and with which it co-operates on its work on the Réunion Harrier and the Réunion Cuckoo-shrike.

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Anna Stier has just joined the team of GEPOG to take responsibility for part of the LIFE+ Cap DOM programme in French Guiana "Having finished my studies in biology / ecology / biodiversity in September 2010 and after training in various fields in France, Germany and in tropical / desert (…)

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What endangered birdlife is there on Réunion Island ? Yannick Giloux, Director of SEOR, offers an appraisal of the area and draws our attention to some species in danger of disappearing.

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The Spring issue of "Oiseau magazine" has devoted ten pages to the birds of the DOM. There you will find an introduction to activities in support of the conservation of biodiversity in the overseas territories, as well as a number of articles on the key activities of Life+ Cap DOM. Entire (…)

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The University of the Antilles and French Guiana (UAG), alongside l’AOMA, is taking part in a Life+ Cap DOM project to develop a system that will enable them to track endangered birds automatically. The LAMIA laboratory (Laboratory of Mathematical Information-technology and its Applications), (…)

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In 2002, the largest colony of Agami Herons in the world was discovered in French Guiana, in the nature reserve of the Kaw-Roura Marshes. Secretive and nocturnal, this bird remains particularly poorly known. As part of the Life+ Cap DOM programme, Argos transmitters have been attached to about (…)

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The Réunion National Park is one of the coordinators of the Life+ Cap DOM project. Created in 2007, it is one of the most recent of the national parks. Marc Salamolard, the leader of the "Fauna" project, details the programmes of the park and reviews the work on the development of its Charter (…)

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Five years to try to stop the decline in overseas biodiversity, such is the objective of the "Life+ Cap DOM: conservation of the key birdlife of the Overseas Departments". Coordinated at the national level by the LPO, and locally by three associations and one National Park, this project is (…)

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