Published On: 16 de September de 2025The recognition values the support to extensive mountain livestock farming in coexistence with wildlife, which results in an increase of livestock farmers in the initiative's area of influence and in the improvement of their economy. The Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ) has been recognized by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and [...]
Published On: 23 de July de 2025Environment and the Bearded Vulture Foundation have already placed the first containers in Liébana and Peñarrubia and have established a collection schedule to provide a "concrete solution to a real need of the territory". Cantabria has just launched a pilot project, unique in Spain, for the collection and valorization of sheep wool, from flocks of [...]
Published On: 14 de July de 2025A pilot project to valorize the wool of farmers who market PRO Biodiversidad branded lamb The Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture has reached a "historic milestone" with the birth and flight in freedom of the first chick of this species in Cantabria since its extinction in the autonomous community one hundred years [...]
Published On: 21 de February de 2025Last February 21, the group of farmers who are going to start the production of mountain cheese Pro Biodiversidad, in the framework of the LIFE Pro BV project, met at the Cooperative of Goat Breeders of Candeleda. In 2024, production had to be stopped due to the lack of a suitable maturing cellar. In February, [...]
Published On: 24 de April de 2024The visit brought together the goat farmers of the Sierra de Gredos who participate in the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project through the production of high quality cheeses. A group of goat breeders from the Sierra de Gredos visited yesterday, at the invitation of the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ), the [...]
Published On: 20 de October de 2023The farmers of the "Lechazos Pro-Biodiversity" Guarantee Brand received training on fundamental aspects of animal welfare in extensive mountain livestock farming. This is a very specific training, since there was nothing focused on this type of livestock farming. Everything that had been done so far was aimed at intensive livestock farming. In order to carry [...]
Published On: 8 de September de 2023At the beginning of September, the last goat raisers on the mountains grasslands of the Sierra de Gredos met with the FCQ to develop a mutually beneficial project. On the one hand, the aim is to increase the income of livestock farmers through the enhancement of their production and, on the other hand, the maintenance [...]
