# Translation 2025 National Research Award, specialist in island ecosystems. Although it is "frustrating" to see how humans destroy biodiversity, she tries to be "optimistic" and chooses to "disseminate and raise awareness among people about what we have at stake" Complaints from tourists and residents end with goats shot dead in Menorca: "Killing them this way is barbaric" Anna Traveset (La Seu d'Urgell), researcher at IMEDEA-CSIC and international reference in island ecology, is the winner of the National Research Award in the Alejandro Malaspina category, dedicated to Natural Resources Science and Technology. She directs the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence at the mixed center of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB).