Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Pedro Coelho visits Corvo

The chairman of SPEA General Assembly, Pedro Coelho, visited the project installations on the Corvo island and had a guided tour to the Cauldron, last weekend.
Peter was surprised by the amount of Cory's Shearwater that he observe when approached to the island. We are all grateful for your visit.
See you soon...

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Endemic flora shows up!

And with spring – endemics plants, lots of them! We came across this little fellow called “(Azorean) forget-me-not” Myosotis maritima during this week’s fieldwork. It’s an Azorean endemism protected under the Berne Convention and the Habitat Directive.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

The work continues

Hi folks. Today I want to tell you how our working week went. We spent an important part of our time in the greenhouse, where production of heather required transplanting a large number of plants. On the other hand, we also worked in the Biological Reserve Corvo with a great team, planting Azorean Heather. The plantation required a good job to ensure the survival of plants. Thus, we were careful to ensure that everything was fine. The work of mapping the island continued, which is taking us to travel to all corners of the Corvo island. Later and at the office, all the information regarding the species of interest is recorded in a GIS database.


The control of invasive species is important and that’s why we carry a spray herbicide on the African Tamrisk in the natural reserve. Our goal was to prevent the growth of saplings of invasive species and promote conditions for growth of plants placed there.
Besides the rain that has elapsed, we fished our first mackerel. One of it decided to fish the fishing rod of our work manager. It flew towards the sea and was never seen again until the next day when it was caught by another fisherman.
See you next time.

Sónia Serrano

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

New volunteers

Hello. We are Sonia and Angel and we arrive from Spain last 31st March.
We will help SPEA on mapping alien plants species and managing the plant nursery.
We are enjoying and hope to develop a good job.
Adios
Sonia e Angel.