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Objectives

The Hunting Resources Research Institute (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.

This objective is pursued through four types of activities developed from IREC:

  • Research: multidisciplinary studies on topics associated with the interaction of hunting-natural environment-agrarian activities-health, including lines of research in ecology, animal health and production, toxicology and their interactions, as well as social sciences applied to wildlife management.
  • Training: Through teaching, mainly at the postgraduate level, the aim is to transmit the scientific knowledge acquired to the university environment.
  • Transfer: The transfer and management of knowledge constitutes one of the six priority axes of the Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy. For this reason, at IREC we make innovation and the results derived from our science and research available to society and the market. We are open to the establishment of contracts and agreements with public or private institutions for the development of scientific and/or technical work, as well as the design and execution of various specific training tasks. Furthermore, with participation in expert committees, the implications of scientific knowledge are conveyed to the relevant authorities for their incorporation into policies.
  • Dissemination: Through the organization of informative courses, talks, and collaboration in widely disseminated publications, the aim is to make the scientific knowledge acquired reach the general public.

Due to its multidisciplinary nature, our Institute is included in the Scientific-Technical Areas of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).