Representatives of 20 scientific societies for the conservation of Spanish biodiversity and geodiversity attended a second meeting today at the headquarters of the Biodiversity Foundation in Madrid to advance the collaboration between this group and the Biodiversity Foundation itself. 

The director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, chaired the meeting in which she thanked the “commitment of scientific societies to conservation, as evidenced by the fact that 15 of these societies have already signed the collaboration protocol to join forces and improve the relationship between science and conservation”.

During the meeting, representatives of the Foundation detailed the new projects and calls for proposals for 2017 as well as other initiatives underway such as the Global Change Monitoring Network in National Parks. For their part, the scientific societies have shared some future projects.

Working to promote Spanish scientific journals and the design of new citizen science programs have been some of the commitments made by the foundation and the societies.