SCIENTISTS from the world over plan to review chicken migration between Europe and Africa by way of Gibraltar at an annual convention held on the Rock.
The Calpe Convention 2022 from September 22-24 hones in on a e-book written fifty years in the past by Oxford scientist Reginald Moreau known as ‘The Palaearctic-African Chook Migration Techniques’.
Now in its 26th version, it’s going to have a look at how ‘developments within the fields of genetics, biochemistry and monitoring strategies’ have affected the examine of the migrating birds within the space, the Gibraltar authorities’s division of the surroundings stated in a press release.
The subject heads an thrilling programme for the College of Gibraltar occasion.
It adopted the launch of a European-African Migration Statement Community on the Rock.
Spearheaded by Minister of the Setting John Cortes, a eager birdwatcher himself, the community brings collectively the highest native and worldwide consultants on the topic and coincides with the 50th anniversary of Moreau’s e-book.
“The significance of Gibraltar’s location within the chicken migration system is unquestioned, and the contribution to data that has been amassed right here by the a long time is massively important,” Cortes stated within the assertion.
“Analysis continues from the Rock, and it is rather becoming that with this 12 months’s Calpe Convention, Gibraltar ought to have fun the anniversary of a e-book that contributed a lot to understanding the phenomenon of migration.
Cortes famous his curiosity within the topic as he contributed to background to the e-book.
“Gibraltar-based ornithologists will little question profit from, and recognize, listening to world-renowned consultants on the topic speaking and discussing proper the place the migration occurs,” the minister added.
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