[Animals] Barcelona will be the ’nursery' of three endangered Balearic species

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It has already been said before. A zoo that some wish to see soon extinction, that is, Barcelona, comes to the rescue of three endangered species. The City Council of Barcelona, owner and manager of the site, and the Government of the Balearic Islands have decided this week that it is time to grow geometrically the collaborative project they launched in 1993 to prevent the disappearance of the Balearic sapillo, a species of which some fossils were found in 1977, which seemed to paleontologists at the time. for they had heard of it only from the elders of the place, but three years later, to a great surprise, it was confirmed that some specimens were still alive. The case is that since 1993, the Barcelona Zoo has dedicated itself to the breeding of the Balearic sapillo with such efficiency that some 1,500 specimens have been reintroduced into its habitat of the Serra de Tramontana. This success is now being replicated with three other new animals.

What has been signed by Laia Bonet, the third deputy mayor of Barcelona, and Miquel Mir, the Balearic “conseller” of Environment and Territory, is one of the best that could happen to the Balearic toad (“Bufotes balearicus”), to the Pitiusan lizard (“Podarcis pityusensis”) and to a tiny fish, the spinach. Mediterranean (Gasterosteus gymnurus), come on, the three lucky ones. With the challenge of stabilizing the Balearic sapillo po[CENSORED]tion in less than 20 years, those responsible for carrying out the new rescue are optimistic.