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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · 11d

Yesterday at the European Researchers' Night we shared a marine Jenga game 🐟🌊🐳 Bit by bit, balance is lost... until the tower falls. A fun way to show kids how fragile ecosystems are!
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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · 19d

Our poster contribution to the 2025 CONSERBIO conference in Sevilla
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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · Jul 24

On our final morning in the Chafarinas Islands, we cleaned a tiny plastic-choked beach near a Shearwater colony. Limited time, limited space, but 7 bags of litter removed. A small act, but every gesture counts...
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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · Jul 11

2025 shearwater team at Chafarinas island: Letizia Championi and @catarinalopes90.bsky.social (marine biologist, conservation, human impact) working for #PlanComplementarioBiodiversidadAndaluz; Fernando Ibáñez, field technician at @ebdonana.bsky.social

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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · Jul 9

Shearwater team working at Chafarinas Islands to deploy GPS and taking blood and feather samples to study foraging and interaction with fisheries in the project #PlanComplementarioBiodiversidadAndaluz
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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · Jun 27

🖐🏽Aqui recordamos la importancia de playas libres de #plastico. Desde #IsoPlastic (PID 2022-140057NB-100, AEI, MICIU) estudiamos el impacto y biotransporte por las aves marinas @ebdonana.bsky.social @casacienciasevcsic.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social

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Operación verano: por unas playas libres de plástico

Ahora que llega la temporada de playa, conviene recordar algunas cuestiones sobre ese protagonista omnipresente que invade nuestros tan preciados como vulnerables ecosistemas costeros: el plástico, co...

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · Jun 16

Our gratitude to @csic.es for this prize to the Art and Science FECYT project #Plastisfera about #plastic impact in birds. #IsoPlastic (PID 2022-140057NB-100) MICIU @juliancap.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @casacienciasevcsic.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · Jun 8

Today, World #Ocean Day, we want to remember that more than 90% of seabirds contain plastic in their stomachs and thousands of them die every year because of it. #IsoPlastic PID 2022-140057NB-100 MICIU @ebdonana.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social

Pellet of a yellow legged gull full of plastics. #IsoPlastic project (PID 2022-140057NB-100) AEI @ageinves.bsky.social MICIU

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · May 27

This cattle egret, photographed and GPS-tagged by @juanma-pg.bsky.social travels every day from the breeding colony to a landfill #IsoPlastic @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @manuelagforero.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social

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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · May 28

Some picture of the feeding travels of Audouin gulls tagged with GPS at Culatra Island (Portugal). They followed us to Doñana coast….!!!
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Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC @ebdonana.bsky.social · May 26

Estas campañas se han llevado a cabo dentro del proyecto #IsoPlastic del Plan Nacional de Investigación y del #PlanComplementarioBiodiversidadAndaluz, financiado por la UE a través de los fondos #NextGenerationEU, el @cienciagob.bsky.social y la Junta de Andalucía.

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Manuela G Forero @manuelagforero.bsky.social · May 23

Tagging with GPSs Audouin gulls at Cullatra Island (Portugal) with Vitor H Pavia (U. Coimbra), will give us good data on the interaction with fisheries, during breeding, migration and wintering

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · May 7

We continue with GPS tagging of cattle egrets to understand their interaction with plastic #IsoPlastic project (PID 2022-140057NB-100) AEI @ageinves.bsky.social MICIU @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @manuelagforero.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · Apr 23

A stark reminder of how deeply #plastic pollution has embedded itself into #seabird breeding sites. A #yellowLeggedGull nest in Cadiz bay. #IsoPlastic (PID 2022-140057NB-100) @ebdonana.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social @pacohortas.bsky.social

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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · Apr 10

Back from fieldwork on the Chafarinas Islands! Sampling and GPS-tracking of yellow-legged #gulls for #PCBio and #IsoPlastic projects. Grateful to the amazing team! @ebdonana.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @jnavarro.bsky.social @sanchezmarta.bsky.social

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · Apr 6

Por la boca muere el pez. Y las aves también. Esta gaviota patiamarilla murió enredada en un anzuelo con forma de pez, en las Islas Chafarinas. Encontrada durante una campaña de muestreo y marcaje del proyecto #IsoPlastic @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · Feb 14

Great talk of our phd student Manuel Serrano about #seabirds as biovectors of #plastics for the @seobirdlife.bsky.social congress 👏🏼👏🏼 #IsoPlastic project @drandygreen.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · Feb 11

Yellow-legged gulls are ingesting huge amounts of plastics because it is mixed with organic waste in landfills and other anthropogenic areas. Let’s recycle! #IsoPlastic @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social

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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · Dec 20

Are plastics ingested by yellow-legged gulls impacting digestive system at histological level? We are exploring this and other related questions in the #IsoPlastic project @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social @seobirdlife.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · Dec 13

A gut punch for anyone working in wildlife ecology: this is a white stork's regurgitate, collected today in SW Spain, filled with rubber bands. Seeing this impact on animals firsthand is devastating, and far too common #IsoPlastic #PlasticPollution @sanchezmarta.bsky.social
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Marta I Sanchez @sanchezmarta.bsky.social · Nov 27

When #plastic travels to the wrong place. This is not a dump but a white stork nest 😕 #IsoPlastic project @ebdonana.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social

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Catarina Lopes @catarinalopes90.bsky.social · Nov 17

After a little 10km stroll, let's just appreciate how beautiful Seville is... 🇪🇸😊

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