How the brown bear has been brought back from the brink of extinction to thrive in Spain’s Pyrenees
JUST three decades ago brown bears were on the brink of extinction in the Pyrenees, the population all but wiped out by hunters and...
VIDEO: How wild boars are increasingly terrorizing urban zones in Spain and why archers are coming to the rescue
SHAKIRA’S close encounter with wild boars last week in a Barcelona park has yet again ignited a debate around the growing danger of the...
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...
Phone app to combat jellyfish peril on Costa del Sol
Beachgoers will be able to track the movement of the stinging invertebrates using their mobile
Five dead – including British tourists – and dozens still missing in Mallorca’s biggest flood in decades
AT least five people including two British tourists have been killed in the storm that flooded all corners of Mallorca.
The east coast of the...
Baby flamingos fly off-target from breeding area on Spain’s Costa Blanca
SOME of the 800 flamingos born last spring on Torrevieja's salt lake have found it tricky to get their sense of direction.
Most have flown...
Lesbian penguins at Oceanografic aquarium in Spain adopt their first baby
A LESBIAN penguin couple at Oceanografic aquarium in Valencia have adopted a chick to raise as their own.
The power couple, Electra and Viola, have...
Fracking has officially failed in Spain in loss for Mariano Rajoy’s Partido Popular
Fracking firms have been met with strong opposition from locals and regional authorities
Wolf hunting to be legalised in Spain
Picos de Europa national park will authorise wolf hunting due to a large number of herd attacks
Protesters SLAM €1 million relaunch of bullfighting in Marbella as petition reaches 80,000
HUNDREDS are set to protest against the planned €1 million relaunch of bullfighting in Marbella next week.
Campaigners will take the streets on January 12...
Doñana National Park in Sevilla on verge of ‘point of no return’
The wetlands are home to around 2,000 different species of animals
Junta officials visit E-Coli infected river in Estepona
Following months of complaints by residents of the neighbouring Villas Andaluzas to Estepona Town Hall, Junta officials have finally stepped in
Runners blamed for lasting damage to Spain’s protected mountain zones
Some 10 environmental groups have sent an official letter to Spain’s minister of agriculture
Three hundred illegal wells shut down in Donana in bid to stop landowners draining wetlands
Junta officials swooped on the sites which unscrupulous parties had been using to tap an aquifer on which the Sevilla and Huelva-based national park is dependent
Spanish city to banish 5,000 pigeons for ‘driving away’ tourists
AN Andalucian city has pledged to banish 5,000 pigeons amid complaints from restaurant and hotel owners that they are driving away tourists.
Cadiz is set...
REVEALED: First bearded vulture to be born in the wild in Spain’s Andalucia
The first bearded vulture born in the wild this season has been called 'Savuti'
Fly-tippers dump fridges and electrical gear which threatens endangered duck on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ECOLOGISTS have complained to Elche City Council about an illegal waste dump off the CV-861 in the Hondo Natural Park.
Accio Ecologista-Agro has sent a...
Something nasty this way comes
Jason Heppenstall delves deep under the bedclothes and finds something nasty
Energy Nordic: The electricity supplier that lets you make a difference
The company, which boasts a central location in Fuengirola, provides 100% green electricity Spain-wide, and is here to take the confusion out of selecting an electricity plan, also supplying you with easy-to-read electricity bills.
Andalucia houses largest settlement of flamingos – around 22,000
An estimated 22,000 flamingos have arrived at Andalucia's Fuente de Piedra
Police raid illegal Vietnamese Pig farm and seize 12 animals in Murcia area of Spain
A dozen Vietnamese pigs have been seized from an illegal breeding farm in Aguilas, Murcia.
Officers from the Guardia Civil's environment division, Seprona, raided the...
Spain – a bird watching paradise
Spain is officially on the ornithological map according to Birdlife
Police seize elephant feet stools being sold online from Costa Blanca area of Spain
FOUR stools made from African elephant feet have been seized by the Guardia Civil in the Alicante area.
Two Spaniards, 39 and 67, are being...
WATCH: ‘Abusive’ Andalucia car park which kept caged camels for Christmas rides slammed by PACMA
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SPAIN'S Animalist party has helped free camels from an Andalucian car park that were kept in 'abusive' conditions.
PACMA slammed the Christmas camel rides in...
A different sort of noise: Lenox Napier’s Portuguese adventure
I last visited the other side of the Iberian peninsula two decades ago with an old black and white guidebook from 1957… so it wasn’t really much of a surprise that Portugal had changed a bit, writes Lenox Napier
The farmers who cried wolf
A new law is being drafted to give cash to farmers whose animals are being killed by the wolves that have returned to Madrid