Excerpt from an interview, ending in a rant

Below you will find the full text that was the basis for the interview in the NatGeo Portugal website, here: https://www.natgeo.pt/animais/2019/10/goncalo-costa-luta-pela-conservacao-de-cigarras-em-marrocos If you aren’t Portuguese, or wish to know more, consider scrolling below! ———————————— About the project: The Cicada Group at FCUL, to which I belong, is led by Paula Simões with Vera L. Nunes, …

It isn’t Summer if you don’t hear them!

Recently, I was offered the chance to assess the health of the cicadas of my country and use this knowledge for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species… Let me give you all a heads-up. The Red List is an awesome endeavor that voices the scientists works onto a broader and more political bubbles, making …

Hey everyone!

I’m Gonçalo, and I have always been fascinated with insects! After discovering two new species of cicadas, from Morocco, I felt the need to protect these little critters. I belong to the Cicada Group at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon and in collaboration with 4 other researchers, we tackle the unknown of the cicada’s …