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Two Canaries made a documentary on the archipelago of the Selvagens Islands.
Halfway between Canary and Madeira, home to some of the major colonies of breeding seabirds in the Atlantic islands and were in the last haven for pirates.
The documentary "Savage islands, forgotten the Atlantic», canaries Juan Jose Ramos and Germán Pinelo, hits screens to show the natural wealth of this sanctuary chosen by thousands of seabirds as a breeding ground in the ocean.
"They are a real laboratory of evolution that Darwin had fascinated, a paradise for wildlife and a refuge for some of the most unique species of fauna and flora of the Macaronesia ", ornithologist explains Juan José Ramos.
Halfway between Canary and Madeira, The Wild are a small Portuguese archipelago Uninhabited which houses some of the major colonies of breeding seabirds in the Atlantic islands, a truly unknown place for the public and a gem for nature lovers, says naturalist.
[quote]Seabed surprised to own Jacques Cousteau, who told them they had "the most beautiful clear water he had ever seen."[/quote]
In its three islands inhabited by thousands of shearwaters, petreles del Bulwer, petrels pechialbos, Madeira petrels and terns of several species. The archipelago consists of three small islands and islets that "appear on the horizon like mirages, stone towers that have already caused a wreck ', and who have seafarers were the place chosen by pirates to hide their treasures.
legends aside, The truth is that the Wild They were declared in 1971 nature reserve by the Government of Portugal for its endemic plant species, invertebrate fauna and its almost perfect conditions for nesting seabirds.
For the latter "they are really a paradise", explains Juan José Ramos, which states that birds breeding in Wild do in caves and burrows underground. In most of these islands congregate a 25.000 shearwaters couples ashen and the Small Wild barely a square kilometer of surface-raising over 30.000 petrels pechialbos, the largest colony of this species on the planet.
Ramos, Ornithology has documented several countries as promoter birding Canarias, prompted the filming of this documentary has led the team almost two years of work, seven hours of interviews, two expeditions to Wild and a trip to Madeira.
To reach his goal he had the collaboration 139 patron in a collective project fundraising, although funding also helped Museums area Cabildo de Tenerife.
But what was to be a descriptive nature documentary has evolved towards a "more human" project in which no voice "off", but directly relate their experiences scientists who have worked in the past Wild 40 years.
Among them, two characters "key" for understanding the Wild, tinerfeño the late geologist Telesforo Bravo, who unpublished photographs are displayed in the islands ceded by the Telesforo Foundation Juan Bravo-Rabbit, and Portuguese ornithologist Alexander Zino, who bought the rights to capture precisely shearwaters, to prevent hunting and create a reserve.
It also sets out his vision of these places Manuel Biscoito, marine biologist at the Museum of Natural History Funchal, for whom the Wild Islands "are the Galapagos western North Atlantic".
Documentarians emphasize their interest in publicizing the environmental value of these islands and conservation efforts carried out in Wild, where the Portuguese government "carried out a magnificent work is a world '.
It also underlines the ornithologist who expected many of the shearwaters that feed in Canarian waters come from the colonies Wild.
After its premiere last Thursday at the Museum of Nature and Man of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, The documentary was screened at the International Festival Boreal Los Silos and in the Fair Ornithology Delta del Ebro, in Tarragona, and is awaiting dates for screening at Las Palmas, Bilbao, Madrid and Galicia.
In addition, in October a book about the nature of Savages be released, which will be presented on the occasion of the screening of the documentary Festival of travel literature and adventures of Puerto de la Cruz 'Periplus'.