Thank you very much.
I can't talk about the loss of these three billion birds without getting shivers. We aren't talking about Jacques Cartier's day; we are talking about 1970. Some of us were here then. In not such a very long time, we have lost nearly a third of our birds. So we have to act. We know that human beings have contributed a lot to this decline, but we are also the ones with potential solutions.
Behind that downward trend, there are examples that give us hope. For example, in the case of the raptors, we have succeeded in reversing the trend. They are now in a better situation than in those years, because we have understood that certain pesticides we were using, in particular, were hurting them.
That proves that humans are capable of changing things, and that is directly connected with citizen science. We won't change the situation without involving the public. It takes people who have an interest in these issues and who understand them better because of their own participation.
Participatory science is science, of course, but it is also a matter of collective awareness.