Marbella seeks mini world peace at community summit
Residents, charities and businesses met on the 5th April to discuss sustainability, community and integration
Animal rights protest planned for Sevilla’s ‘April Fair’
Animal rights group says millions are spent by the Andalucian government to subsidise bullfighting
23-stone man accused of squashing donkey to death in Spain did not commit a crime, judge rules
A judge has thrown out the case at a preliminary trial, ruling that there is ‘no evidence of a criminal offence’
End of the line for Spain’s most notorious illegal fishing family
A brave pursuit by ecologists could finally spell the end of one of Spain’s top fishing gangs, writes Joe Duggan
Eco-car designers launch startup campaign for new Evovelo model
Gonzalo and Alfredo Chomon’s Evovelo ‘Mo’ has been described as the first fully-enclosed, solar-powered urban transport
€3 million car park shut on Costa del Sol after just one year over ‘safety and instability’ concerns
Continual flooding in the Burriana underground car park forced town hall officials to shut it
Stricter punishment in place for horse hobblers in Andalucia
Horse hobblers nobbled
Supermarkets unite to stop Spain’s strawberry fields sucking Doñana wetland dry
Spain’s strawberry industry generates around €400m a year
Chased by men with machetes in Mexico, mugged in Peru and arrested in Iran for taking a selfie, Spaniard completes three-year walk around world
Quitting his job as a lifeguard, Malagueno Dean totted up 33,000 kms documenting climate change as he went
USA will not negotiate Palomares clean-up until Spain has government
Clean-up on hold
FEATURE: After the Algarrobico, the fight to protect Spain’s wild spaces wages on
The Supreme Court ruling over the Algarrobico was a great victory for environmentalists, but the fight to preserve Spain’s wild spaces goes on. Rob Horgan
Nerja draws up plans for first underwater museum
What lies beneath...
Sad Spain ranks below Saudi Arabia and Qatar in World Happiness Report 2016
Denmark emerged as the happiest country in the world
Spanish fishing family arrested for poaching Patagonian toothfish in Antarctic waters
Vidal family put behind bars for poaching Patagonian toothfish
Estepona Town Hall pledges to clean up disease-riddled rivers
Estepona Town Hall has pledged to eliminate waste water from beaches and rivers
Carbon emissions increase faster in Spain than anywhere else in Europe
CO2 emissions rose by 4% last year in Spain with a 23% increase in the use of electricity
No victors in the Algarrobico ruling in Almeria
There are no victors in Almeria’s infamous battle of the Algarrobico … except, perhaps, the local rabbits, writes Lenox Napier, who lives in nearby Mojacar
100 abandoned donkeys saved from slaughterhouse by Spanish sanctuary
EXCLUSIVE: Donkey sanctuary rescues record 100 animals in largest ever operation
Priests bemoan stork families living in Spanish churches
Church bosses have appealed to the government to bend environmental laws
Algeciras Town Hall face tough questions about ‘sewage waste’ on beach
While the town hall insists the runoff water at El Rinconcillo is ‘just rainwater’, Algeciras Sà Se Puede claims it is sewage discharge
Costa del Sol hotel accused of purposefully poisoning cats and birds
Expat animal rights groups, including Adana, are now investigating claims that they were killed by workers at the Pierre y Vacances resort
Spanish government and Andalucian Junta will unite to demolish hotel el Algarrobico
Cost of razing luxury complex and restoring Almeria site put at €7.18 million
ANIMAL RIGHTS FOCUS: PACMA president analyses issues in Spain
Inadequate penalties have allowed abusers to get off virtually scot-free in Spain but change is in the air, writes PACMA President Silvia Barquero
Battling for the burro: A visit to Malaga donkey sanctuary Refugio del Burrito
The Refugio del Burrito is still fighting for justice for the donkey killed in a Bethlehem display in 2014, Tom Powell went to see where
Rescue dog sniffs around Spain on round-the-world trip
Caring canine takes well-earned Andalucian break