The talks will deal with the archipelago’s past and the biological richness of the protected natural area.

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This week, the director general of Natural Spaces and Biodiversity, Llorenç Mas, inaugurated the 5th Research Conference of the Cabrera Archipelago National Maritime-Terrestrial Park. This event, held since 2018, is a meeting point for researchers, workers, social and economic agents, and administrations linked to the park where the advances made over the last year in the protected natural space are presented.

This year, six presentations and an open table have been scheduled. Doctor Isabelle Bes will talk about the new aspects that have come to light thanks to the latest memories discovered about the captivity of the Napoleonic prisoners in Cabrera.

In terms of biodiversity, Dr. Miquel Capó will give a talk on the discovery of a rockrose that has never before been documented in the Balearic Islands and which is in danger of extinction. In addition, mycologist Joan Carles Salom will talk about the biodiversity of fungi and myxomycetes in the park and their ecological functions.

On the marine side, the researcher Nuria Marbà will explain the monitoring of Posidonia meadows, while the technician Josep Coll will devote his talk to monitoring the ichthyofauna of the park’s infralittoral hard bottoms since according to the censuses carried out in the last two years the species of fishing interest are in a good state of conservation and in most of the stations the biomass has increased eightfold since the park was created. The last talk will be given by the Park’s technician, Victoria Horrach, who will talk about the monitoring of fishing activity and the conclusions drawn for the year 2021, such as the catch ratio and the main species.

Mas stressed the importance of raising social awareness of the values of Cabrera and of maintaining the studies being carried out in the archipelago on different aspects, not only of biodiversity but also of archaeology and the past of Cabrera.