Name: Jesus Tartera

Position: Park Warden

Site: Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park

Number of Eco-Counter: 18

Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park is a pioneer in the use of counting systems.

Since Jesus Tartera started working with Eco-Counter, the results obtained have proved most surprising. What were previously simple intuitive guesswork or hypotheses, have been transformed into real data with Eco-Counter.

Thanks to Eco-Counter, the park wardens are now able to find out in a reliable, easy and economical way how many people frequent the different paths in the park at any given time. This tool is a big help when fixing schedules and making priority decisions concerning security in the park, maintaining paths, deciding upon the necessity for certain road signs etc. ...

Jesus Tartera believes that two-way identification is a big step forward in the counting of walkers: the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park receives many visitors: They enter by one of the park entrances and leave by the other. With this new counting system, Jesus has been able to obtain better knowledge of the distribution and flow of visitors.