Aren Interpretation Centre

From August 17th to September 10th, Tuesday to Sunday from 13pm to 14pm and from 9am to 20pm

Outside of these hours, visits can be arranged with the staff of the Dinosaur Museum.

When humans domesticated animals for use as a means of transport, as well as for agricultural and livestock work, they faced the problem of how to dispose of their carcasses. They found the solution in nature, observing that scavenging birds devoured the remains of dead wild animals.

This led to the emergence of what were known as "dung heaps," where people left the carcasses of dead animals for scavenging birds to dispose of. Each town had one of these heaps, all located on small or large hills that facilitated the birds' flight after their feast and provided easy access for transporting the dead animals.

Due to the mechanization of agriculture and rural depopulation, many of these feeding stations disappeared, and vulture populations dwindled. To control the situation, various conservation programs promoted the creation of regulated feeding stations, such as the Tiacuto station in Nueno (Huesca), reopened in 2014 and managed by the Huesca Ornithological Group, which is responsible for providing food and monitoring the birds that feed there.

The photographs in this exhibition, taken exclusively by members of the Huesca Ornithological Group, aim to share a day of contributing to the landfill.