Andalucia’s natural parks under threat from new law
Green group fury as new law allows development - including possible golf courses and 4x4 routes - inside natural parks
Marbella mayor joins environmentalists to oppose oil and gas exploration off the Costa del Sol
Marbella Mayor, Angeles Muñoz, has said the plans to search for oil and gas off the Costa del Sol are ‘diametrically opposed to tourism’
High speed train testing track goes off the rails
Mass opposition to ‘destructive’ scheme to bring world’s biggest train testing track to Antequera
Murcia shepherd derails golf course
After years of legal battles a shepherd wins a right to keep his land from developers
Bag tax fury
Fury as Fuengirola refuses to back plastic bag levy
Motorway gets the bird
Toll road to Ronda threatens over 100 rare species
Andalucia plans to expand protected areas
Proposals receive support from town halls, ecologists, businesses and central and local government
‘Enough of this shit’
The Green Party has called an urgent demo
Our lynx to the future
As exciting new figures show the Iberian lynx is clawing its way back, Wendy Williams takes a look at the struggle to save the world’s
Grizzly death
Species extinct as last female brown bear in the Pyrenees is almost certainly dead
Out of the sewers
All Andalucian sewerage to be treated by 2015
Sun, at a price
Cheaper power for consumers upsets supplies
Virgin beach gets ‘urbanised’
Plans to develop the stretch of virgin coastline around El Palmar have come a step closer
A birds-eye view
It should, of course, come easy for a bird, and now a family of Egyptian vultures are the latest group to start Twittering... as well
Red tuna comeback
Recently on the verge of extinction, now red tuna could actually be making a comeback
Slippery slope
Protesters demand an end to new artificial snow scheme in the Sierra Nevada
Fish deaths lead to probe
An investigation has been launched into the deaths of hundreds of fish in the Guadalhorce River
Flight path battle for flamingos
Protest groups unite to oppose ‘unnecessary, speculative’ airport that would endanger wildlife on Antequera’s protected vega
Europe’s new battle of Trafalgar
EU steps in to investigate ‘unsustainable macroproject’ that threatens precious virgin beach
SOS – Save our Sierras
Nature park plan to protect coastal hills from development
Andalucia binning the plastic bag
Shops will charge five cents per carrier bag from January, rising to ten cents by the end of the year
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
Out of the sewers
Campaign launched to stop nine towns from continuing to pour sewage into Guadalhorce river
Something nasty this way comes
Jason Heppenstall delves deep under the bedclothes and finds something nasty
A to Z: Secret Andalucian Summer
Take your Andalucian summer beyond the crowded Costa beaches with our 26 favourite spots
Oh, I do like to be beside the lakeside
Jon Clarke explains why the Andalucian lake district is a good alternative to the coast