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Spain’s Malaga records the highest temperature on Iberian Peninsula this Easter Sunday

Spain’s Malaga records second warmest winter in 60 years and braces for a record-breaking hot spring

MALAGA has recorded the second warmest winter since 1961, with temperatures registering 1.5ºC above average for this season, with spring forecast to follow the ‘above normal’ trend. In fact, Spain’s met office,

21 Mar, 2023 @ 08:45

Environment·Malaga·Nature·Weather

Blooming Blossoms: Cherry blossom in Malaga named as one of most beautiful in all of Spain

ONE of the most beautiful spring sights in Spain is the cherry blossoms and Malaga can boast one of the most beautiful cherry blossom tree fields in Spain. The prestigious Condé Nast

24 Feb, 2023 @ 09:15

Lead·Malaga·Nature·Other News

Endangered Iberian lynx returning to Spain's Murcia region

Endangered Iberian lynx to return to Spain’s Murcia region

TWO pairs of endangered Iberian lynxes will start prowling around remote high areas above Lorca on March 3 to start the project of reintroducing the animal in the Murcia region. The ultimate

17 Feb, 2023 @ 11:32

Environment·Lead·Murcia·Nature

Bornean Orangutan At Bioparc Fuengirola In Malaga, Spain 14 Aug 2021

Bioparc in Spain’s Fuengirola opens registration period for its White Week children’s camp

THE last week of February is synonymous in the province of Malaga with school holidays to celebrate the Day of Andalucia (Dia de Andalucia), which marks the anniversary of a referendum held

6 Feb, 2023 @ 09:15

Malaga·Nature·Other News

WATCH: Police capture large iguana in Spain’s Malaga

POLICIA Local in Malaga have captured a large reptile in the Bailen-Miraflores district of the city. The reptile, an iguana of more than one metre in length and weighing about 6.5 kilograms,

1 Feb, 2023 @ 08:45

Lead·Malaga·Nature·Other News

Farmer On Spain's Costa Blanca Set Up Illegal Trap To Capture And Keep Finches

Farmer on Spain’s Costa Blanca trapped and kept finches to use and breed for singing contests

A 78-year old Mutxamel farmer is being investigated for setting up an intricate homemade trap to illegally capture finches. The Guardia Civil said in many similar cases, finches are bred in captivity

26 Jan, 2023 @ 14:28

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Nature·Valencian Community

Eagle will land to scare off pesky seagulls from Costa Blanca castle in Spain

DENIA is deploying shock tactics by getting an eagle to cut the seagull population around the city’s castle. Lokimica- who run Denia council’s pest-control services- has spent the last three years puncturing

24 Jan, 2023 @ 19:00

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·Nature·Valencian Community

Power firm Iberdrola fined €68,000 after griffon vulture is electrocuted in Spain’s Valencia

IBERDROLA’S power distribution division has been fined €68,667 after a griffon vulture was electrocuted on a Valencia Province power line. The penalty was imposed by the Valencian Community’s Ministry of Agriculture. The

17 Jan, 2023 @ 19:30

Environment·Lead·Nature·Valencia·Valencian Community

Online seller of endangered toads is punished in Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN Alicante man has been fined €1,080 for selling natterjack toads on the internet. He’s also been banned from breeding or trading wild animals for 18 months in addition to hunting and

28 Dec, 2022 @ 17:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Nature·Valencian Community

Green Turtle (chelonia Mydas) (6133097910)

Twenty-four marine animal strandings recorded along Spain’s Doñana coasts this year—including endangered green turtle

THIS year, 2022, has seen multiple marine animals stranded on the coasts of Doñana. The annual Doñana Natural Area Management Report on observations and strandings of marine mammals in Doñana has recorded

28 Dec, 2022 @ 08:45

Environment·Lead·Nature

Puzzling mass arrival of ‘penguin birds’ to Spanish coasts

THE mysterious mass arrival of penguin-like birds to Spanish coasts is surprising experts. According to wildlife experts, several specimens of ‘Alca torda’ or ‘penguin birds’ have been observed this week along the

1 Dec, 2022 @ 09:15

Environment·Lead·Nature·Other News

Scientists Find Fossil Of Europe's Largest Ever Turtle With Size Like Vw Beetle Car In Northern Spain

Scientists find fossils of Europe’s largest-ever turtle in Spain with size like VW Beetle car

SCIENTISTS have identified fossil remains dating back 70 million years as belonging to the largest-ever turtle recorded in Europe. A set of bones were found by a hiker in the Pyrenees mountains

20 Nov, 2022 @ 09:15

Lead·Nature

Happy tenth birthday to first gorilla born in Spain’s Valencia region

BIOPARC Valencia got out the bunting on Wednesday to celebrate the tenth birthday of the first gorilla to be born in the Valencian Community. Ebo’s birth in 2012 was a crucial part

26 Oct, 2022 @ 16:10

Environment·Lead·Nature·Valencia·Valencian Community

HEART-WARMING TAILS OF LA ALPUJARRA…

THE Alpujarra is a region known for its fantastic range of fauna and flora. Its cultivated slopes play home to everything from roaming Ibex (mountain goats) and jabali (wild boar) to farm

8 Sep, 2022 @ 20:16

Featured·Granada·Nature

Sea Urchin Poacher Gets Surprised By Police When Exiting Sea On Spain's Costa Blanca

Sea urchin poacher gets surprised by police while exiting sea on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A sea urchin poacher was caught in the act by the Guardia Civil as he got out of the water in a rocky area of Alicante’s Cabo de las Huertas. The diving

2 Sep, 2022 @ 14:15

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·Nature·Valencian Community

WATCH: Beautiful encounter between dog and dolphin in Galician port, northwestern Spain

AN owner has captured the extraordinary encounter between his dog and a dolphin as they played together in waters off Spain’s northwestern region of Galicia. The dog, which appears to be a

19 Aug, 2022 @ 14:15

Environment·Lead·Nature

WATCH: Heartwarming moment firefighters help a deer caught in wildfire in northeastern Spain

A TEAM of firefighters battling flames in Aragon have shared a video of them giving water to a roe deer and soothing its burns, providing a heartwarming moment during the horror of

18 Aug, 2022 @ 11:45

Environment·Lead·Nature

Illegal Mediterranean tortoise breeding farm closed down on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN illegal Mediterranean tortoise hatchery at an Elche finca has been shut down by the Guardia Civil. 27 animals have been removed by the Guardia’s environment unit, Seprona. The tortoises are being

10 Aug, 2022 @ 11:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Nature

WATCH: Heartwarming moment firefighters give water to young deer trapped by wildfires in Spain

FIRES are devastating vast swathes of woodland across northern Spain in what authorities predict will be the worst year for at least a decade. But even amid the gloom and destruction, there

22 Jul, 2022 @ 17:15

Environment·Lead·National News·Nature

Migrating white stork birds are staying put in Spain to live off landfill sites

WHITE storks are preferring to stay in Spain rather than migrating to Africa for the winter, as landfill sites are giving them plenty of food. That combined with warmer weather patterns means

22 Jul, 2022 @ 11:35

Environment·Lead·Madrid·Nature

Shock and claw: Three new crab species discovered in waters off Spain’s Andalucia

RESEARCHERS from the Spanish National Research Council have discovered two new species of hermit crab and one new species of spider crab in Andalucian waters. It follows a study on the crab

20 Jul, 2022 @ 18:00

Lead·Nature

Off the beaten track: Escape to Arcadia with a holiday in Spain’s northern region Asturias

It’s said the rain in Spain falls mainly in Asturias … But when Olive Press editor Jon Clarke swapped the crowded Costas for a summer break in this peaceful pastoral paradise, he

30 Jun, 2022 @ 15:55

Asturias·Exploring Spain·Nature·Olive Press Travel·Travel Asturias

British red kites released in Extremadura to boost Spain’s population of threatened species

MORE than thirty years ago, Spain sent red kites to the UK to boost a population that was on the verge of extinction. The reintroduction programme was so successful that now Britain

24 Jun, 2022 @ 11:15

Environment·Lead·Nature·Premium

Heatwave: How unseasonably high temperatures are taking a toll on Spain’s nesting birds

BABY birds are crawling out of their nests and plummeting to their deaths as they try to escape soaring temperatures one of the earliest heatwaves to hit Spain on record. Volunteers from

16 Jun, 2022 @ 19:46

Lead·National News·Nature·Premium·Weather

WATCH: Heartwarming moment young deer is rescued from wildfire zone in hills above Spain’s Costa del Sol

HUNDREDS of firefighters risked their lives battling to control the wildfire raging across the hills outside Benahavis above Spain’s Costa del Sol. Apocalyptic images of burning trees and scorched countryside fill the

10 Jun, 2022 @ 18:00

Lead·Nature

Benidorm’s Terra Natura park welcomes deadly tarantula and snakes seized from Costa Blanca house in Spain

A poisonous tarantula and two snakes have been removed from an Altea house and taken to Benidorm’s Terra Natura nature and animal park. Altea council asked the Guardia Civil to go to

8 Jun, 2022 @ 14:00

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Nature·Premium

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