The Project Director of the Biodiversity Foundation, a public foundation of the Government of Spain, under the Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, Ignacio Torres, participated, today, in the town of Benia, capital of the council of Onís, in the inauguration of the Work Conference “Conservation of biodiversity and extensive livestock: a common future”.

These Conferences – which will take place until Saturday in that Asturian town – have been organized by the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture within the “Program for monitoring biodiversity in areas of the Cantabrian mountains of the Natura 2000 Network”, which is developed with the support of the Biodiversity Foundation.

Managers of natural areas, researchers, livestock farmers, conservationists and mayors of the region present a series of significant experiences, developed both in Spain and in Great Britain, around the compatibility between extensive livestock farming and the protection of natural resources. The aim is to provide working ideas that can then be applied to the Cantabrian area.