Ainara Cortés-Avizanda is an ecologist and biodiversity conservation scientist at the University of Seville, Spain. Her work spans across the wide discipline of ecology and animal behavior. She is also interested in ecosystem services and stakeholders’ perception of wildlife in protected areas. She mainly takes as study model the large avian scavengers focusing on applied ecology for biodiversity conservation and inspire successful policy decisions. She has worked with vultures, mainly in Spain, since 2002, when she started one of her research lines on the long-term monitored of birds of prey in Bardenas Natural Park and Biosphere Reserve one of the most important are for vultures such as the Egyptian vultures and where traditional livestock herds (transhumance i.e. herds that move searching for fresh pasturelands) allow the establishment of a key human-vultures alliance.

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