BIOSCICAT presents the virtual photographic exhibition "The Wine Ecosystem".

Through the photographic work of ©FERRAN AGUILAR, we pay tribute to the ecological and landscape role of the vineyard in the Mediterranean ecosystem.

This exhibition is a tribute to the wine landscape within the Mediterranean ecosystem and presents the result of a monumental project by Ferran Aguilar, one of the most renowned nature photographers of our time. For over six years, Ferran has immersed himself in the wine ecosystem to capture, often for the first time, the intimate life of the biological world that inhabits within it, and the delicate subtlety of its beauty.

In the coming weeks, a daily photograph will be shared on our social networks. After this period, the exhibition will also be accessible from the project's page at www.bioscicat.org 

Inhabiting the wine

The Mediterranean ecosystem forms one of the richest biomes in biological life on the planet. Born from the interaction between pre-existing natural biomes and the millennia-old action of our species on the landscape -which gave rise to the characteristic agroforestry mosaic-, it is considered an emerging ecosystem created by humans ("emerging ecosystem" or "novel ecosystems"), and has been identified by science as one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots.

The vineyard and its cultivation have been one of the cornerstones upon which the mosaic of the Mediterranean landscape and its rich biological diversity have slowly been built. But it goes beyond that. Wine has shaped a unique and unrepeatable ecological and cultural landscape, and probably the most sensual and aesthetic way of understanding life that we know: 'Mediterraneity'.

'Mediterraneity' is, without doubt, the most poetic attitude toward inhabiting a landscape. And wine is its finest synthesis of this sensuality, of this singular way of understanding life through other dimensions of time and light. It is, in short, the purest essence of the Mediterranean 'world'.

Today, this world - forged over thousands of years between the biological and the human, and representing sensuality made landscape - is, for the first time, seriously under threat. This is a tribute to all the species that inhabit it and make it possible.