A Tech Park in Spain for Birds, Frogs and Turtles

                       A Tech Park in Spain for Birds, Frogs and Turtles

                   We save what we love, We love what we know, We know what we're taught:
                   Alejandro Fernandez has much to teach.


It's the goal of every tech entrepreneur to hatch new ideas. Alejandro Fernandez is just as interested in hatching endangered birds.

The co-founder of Fractalia Remote Systems, a maker of device management software, has spent about a half-million euros of his own money to build a high-tech zoological research lab with the capacity to support up to 200 species of birds, mammals, amphibians and other creatures at risk of extinction.

The lab — due to be fully operational next summer — will use audio, video and sensor technologies that allow biologists from around the world to study the animals remotely at low cost.
 "Researchers from — let's say Australia — will be able to monitor and study their animals from their homeland," said Fernandez, 38, whose goal is to make the lab one of the most advanced facilities of its kind in the world. Read more...

I spent 36 years as a zookeeper and never saw this combination of entrepreneurship and environmentalism and rarely this level of commitment to wildlife.

A Tech Park in Spain for Birds, Frogs and Turtles