Marc Vilella Antonell started collaborating with the Natural Science Museum of Granollers in 2019, during his MSc’s thesis about the behaviour of terrestrial mesocarnivores and the influence of their prey, i.e., small rodents. He gained experience at gathering field data by means of camera traps and small mammal live traps. His interests are focused on understanding how different species interact and the role of population dynamics in these relationships. Wild carnivores and small mammals occupy most of his work on research, which he combines with environmental education activities.

It was during his BSc in Environmental Biology when he started to participate as a volunteer in a monitoring program of the European wildcat and in other citizen science projects in Catalonia. He also spent half a year (2018) in the United Kingdom, helping at the implementation of wildlife conservation activities in South Devon. There, he was captivated by the involvement of society in preserving nature at a local scale: the power of little actions. After this experience, he joined an MSc’s degree on biodiversity management in Barcelona.

Since then, he enjoys taking part in initiatives that are based on the collaboration of people from different backgrounds, as well as in projects with a relevant amount of fieldwork. Therefore, he is especially interested in participating in research networks that enable obtaining standardized information in several locations simultaneously. Spreading the results obtained is also one of his priorities, thus he manages social networks of three research and conservation organizations in order to share contents related to distribution, habitat, diet, abundance or threats of different mammal species.