KNOW OUR PROJECTS
From the Foundation we develop different projects in the Iberian Peninsula linked to our three areas of work: biodiversity conservation, rural development, and scientific research and environmental education.
We also work at the European level through the LIFE and POCTEFA programs, in alliance with other strategic actors in biodiversity conservation.
CONSERVATION OF THE BEARDED VULTURE
Monirepro Program
Inventory and monitoring of Bearded Vulture reproduction.
Necromederos Program
Supplementary feeding of necrophagous birds
Seguimarc Program
Tracking of marked bearded vultures
Antidote Program, Program to fight against the illegal use of poisoned bait.
SOS Platform, Monitoring and compliance with regulations related to these infrastructures.
Varcriq Program
Monitoring of Bearded Vulture critical areas
LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture Project, Iberian Corridors for the Bearded Vulture LIFE20/NAT/ES/001363
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Environmental education programs at the Ecomuseum of the Pyrenean Fauna (Ainsa – Huesca)
Training program of the Monte Perdido Biological Station (Huesca), Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park.
Environmental education program at the Center for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development/Las Montañas del Quebrantahuesos (Benia de Onis-Asturias) Sustainable Development/The Bearded Vulture Mountains (Benia de Onis-Asturias)
Applied study on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through necrophagous birds.
Evaluation of the effects of climate change on the prevalence and morbidity of diseases transmitted by biological agents in mountain birds.
WE PROMOTE RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Pro-Biodiversity Mark
Guarantee mark that exemplifies the link between conservation and livestock farming in mountain areas.
Different agreements with local entities and administrations, Land Stewardship Plan with the City Council of Aínsa-Sobrarbe (Huesca), among others.
Pro-Sobrarbe (Huesca)
Cooperation project: Production, promotion and biodiversity.
Pro-Biodiversity Livestock
Program for the transformation of extensive livestock farming in mountain areas in coexistence with large carnivores Scientific Ecotourism Project in Spain
Creation of a tourism product linked to the conservation of threatened habitats and species.
LIFE / POCTEFA
LIFE Project (2022- 2027) for the Bearded Vulture
Iberian corridors for the Bearded Vulture
LIFE Project (2013-2018)
Bearded vulture conservation as a resource for maintenance + Bearded vulture network
LIFE Project (2002-2005)
Recovery of the Bearded Vulture in the Picos de Europa.
LIFE Project (1998-2002)
Recovery of the Bearded Vulture in the Iberian System
LIFE Project (1994-1998)
Threatened vertebrates of the Pyrenees
POCTEFA/INTERREG Project (2002-2006)
Por un Pirineo Vivo/Pyrénées Vivantes
POCTEFA DUSAL+ (2024-2026)
Sobrarbe Aure Louron Single Destination
https://www.poctefa.eu/proyectos/efa025-01-id-dusal/
Some other ongoing projects
Management Plan of the Natura Network in the Municipality of Aínsa-Sobrarbe
In January 2021 the Government of Aragon approved the Basic Management and Conservation Plans for the Protected Areas of the Natura 2000 Network in Aragon (D. 13/2021). The Municipality of Aínsa-Sobrarbe has four Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) (48 km2)
Territory Custody FCQ and Aínsa-Sobrarbe
In February 2016, the Aínsa-Sobrarbe Town Council and the FCQ signed a Collaboration Agreement for the Municipal Land Stewardship agreement, which was renewed in 2019.
Aínsa Carbon Sink (PSCA): Sobrarbe Sumit CO2 Bosque Ambar La Serreta, José Antonio Murillo
The carbon fixed by the terrestrial ecosystem is dynamically distributed between living plant biomass, dead plant biomass and soil. If the net balance of carbon fluxes, removals and emissions is positive, we will find terrestrial ecosystems actively acting as carbon sinks.
PorOtraPAC Coalition.
Coalición Por Otra PAC, a platform of organic production organizations, extensive livestock farmers, environmental NGOs, development cooperation or experts in nutrition and consumption, which aims to influence the future Community Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Varcriq Program: surveillance of Bearded Vulture critical areas
The Critical Area (CA) managers are a network of FCQ volunteers who collaborate in the conservation of the bearded vulture through the monitoring, identification and communication of threats that may occur in the CAs.
Rescue, breeding, release and monitoring program for Bearded Vultures in the Pyrenees and Picos de Europa
In all natural populations of birds of prey there are reproductive units whose productivity, understood as chicks flown/year, is zero or practically zero. In the case of the bearded vulture, the current recovery plans in the Pyrenean Mountains contemplate specific actions to avoid repeated events of reproductive failure. The Bearded Vulture Working Group (Ministry of the Environment) developed a management protocol for the extraction of bearded vulture specimens from the natural environment.
Monirepro Program: inventory and monitoring of the reproduction of the Bearded Vulture.
The FCQ has been carrying out uninterruptedly since 1995 the inventory and monitoring of the reproduction of the bearded vulture in Aragon, either with its own means and financing, or through Framework Collaboration Agreements and technical assistance with the Government of Aragon.
Necromederos Program: supplementary feeding of necrophagous birds
The FCQ promoted the implementation of a bearded vulture feeder in the Cañones and Sierra de Guara Natural Park (Vadiello-Huesca) in 2001, of a necrophagous bird feeder (griffon vulture, Egyptian vulture, red kite and bearded vulture) in Aínsa-Sobrarbe (Huesca) in 2009 and a bearded vulture feeder in the Picos de Europa in Mirador de la Reina (Asturias) in 2015. Currently, the feeders in Aínsa and Mirador de the Queen.
Seguimarc Program: monitoring of marked Bearded Vultures
The SEGUIMARC program consists of the application of capture, marking and tracking techniques with the bearded vulture. In 1992, the FCQ and the Government of Aragon launched a program to capture and mark bearded vultures, through which a total of 150 specimens have been marked.
Some other completed projects
Program of actions for the conservation of the Bearded Vulture in the Pyrenean, Cantabrian, Central and Iberian mountain ranges 2023.
Program of actions for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture in the Pyrenean, Cantabrian, Central and Iberian Mountain Range 2023. The Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ) is a private non-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), declared of public utility, registered in the Registry of Foundations of the Ministry of Culture and Sport (70/AGR), constituted in 1995, which is dedicated to promote and develop projects of environmental monitoring, scientific research, environmental defense, rural development, custody of the territory, ecotourism, environmental education and awareness in the mountain habitats in which the Bearded Vulture lives.
Program of actions for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture in the Pyrenean, Cantabrian, Central and Iberian mountain ranges 2022.
Program of actions for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture in the Pyrenean, Cantabrian, Central and Iberian Mountain Range 2022. The Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ) is a private non-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), declared of public utility, registered in the Registry of Foundations of the Ministry of Culture and Sport (70/AGR), constituted in 1995, which is dedicated to promote and develop projects of environmental monitoring, scientific research, environmental defense, rural development, custody of the territory, ecotourism, environmental education and awareness in the mountain habitats in which the Bearded Vulture lives.
Program of actions for the conservation of the Bearded Vulture in the Pyrenean and Cantabrian Mountains and the Iberian system 2021.
Program of actions for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture in the Pyrenean and Cantabrian Mountains and the Iberian system 2021. The Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ) is a private, non-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), declared of public utility, registered in the Registry of Foundations of the Ministry of Culture and Sport (70/AGR), constituted in 1995, which is dedicated to promote and develop projects of environmental monitoring, scientific research, environmental defense, rural development, custody of the territory, ecotourism, environmental education and awareness in the mountain habitats where the Bearded Vulture lives.
Bearded Vulture Conservation Action Program in the Pyrenean and Cantabrian Mountains 2020.
Bearded Vulture Conservation Action Program in the Pyrenean and Cantabrian Mountains 2020.
Bearded Vulture Conservation Action Program in the Pyrenean and Cantabrian Mountains 2019.
Bearded Vulture Conservation Action Program in the Pyrenean and Cantabrian Mountains 2019.
Pro-Sobrarbe: Production, Promotion and Biodiversity.
This project is being developed in the Sobrarbe region between 2019 and 2022 and involves: Aínsa-Sobrarbe Town Council, FCQ, Arto-Un Paso Atrás Association, Huesca Green Tourism and the Altoaragonesa Association for the Selection of Black Bees (ASAN).
Recovering lost territories
Since 1990 the bearded vulture has gone in a few decades from being a species at imminent risk of extinction at state and community level to having a hopeful situation both for the recovery of the Pyrenean population, and for the evolution of different reintroduction projects (Picos de Europa, Sierra de Cazorla, Alps and Maestrazgo).
Bearded Vulture Conservation Action Program in the Pyrenees and Picos de Europa 2018.
One of the main projects developed by the FCQ are the actions for the development and execution of the Bearded Vulture Recovery Plan in Aragon and the LIFE+Bearded Vulture Network project whose 2018 results are presented below.
Sobrarbe Agrodiverse Cooperative Group.
In order to diversify agricultural activity in mountain areas, the Sobrarbe Agrodiverse and Sustainable Sobrarbe Cooperation Group was launched in 2017.
