Registry of Biodiversity Institutions, Collections and Databases: Institution

Gbif.es / Participantes / The Institute of Research in Wildlife and Game Resources (IREC/CSIC-UCLM-JCCM)

Description

The Institute of Research in Game Resources (IREC) is dedicated to the scientific treatment of the different aspects related to hunting, considering it as a renewable natural resource subject to exploitation. From a scientific perspective, they deepen the knowledge of the species of hunting interest and the conservation of biodiversity. IREC is a research centre jointly owned by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (JCCM). Throughout its 20 years of existence, IREC has developed science and training to promote sustainable hunting and contribute to the conservation of wildlife and biodiversity.

Overall information
Goals

IREC – CSIC, UCLM, JCCM was born with the mission of generating and disseminating scientific knowledge that allows maintaining a balance between hunting and conservation, guaranteeing the sustainability of hunting activity, contributing to the maintenance of biodiversity, and promoting its socioeconomic performance. Over the years of operation, the IREC has expanded these objectives to the more general of generate and disseminate scientific knowledge that allows efficient and sustainable wildlife management, whether this management is aimed at the sustainable exploitation of game species, the recovery of declining species (whether game or not) or the control of overabundant species (including some game species) or their impacts.

Strengths

Ecology and wildlife management, Wildlife toxicology and Wildlife Health and biothecnology