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Wild boars are terrorising Spain’s Costa Blanca: How a ‘plague of 6,000 pigs’ is destroying land and keeping residents ‘locked in their houses’ at night out of fear

A PLAGUE of wild boars has prompted a group of Alicante province mayors to demand an urgent meeting with the regional Environment Ministry. A meeting

23 Jan, 2024 @ 14:00

Animals·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

War on wild boars declared in Spain's Murcia in special 'hunting emergency'

Woman in Spain’s Basque Country killed in home by stray bullet from boar hunter’s gun

A 75-YEAR-OLD woman died in hospital in Spain’s Basque Country region this weekend after apparently being accidentally shot in the head by a hunter while

18 Dec, 2023 @ 15:34

Basque Country·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: Watch as British pensioner is left heartbroken after Spanish hunting dogs burst into his Alicante home and slaughtered his ‘beautiful’ cat Gnocchi

A BRITISH pensioner has been left heartbroken after hunting dogs stormed into his house and savagely killed his ‘beautiful’ cat Gnocchi. Former Army serviceman Clive,

15 Dec, 2023 @ 08:37

Costa Blanca·EXCLUSIVE·Lead

Wild boar causes chaos with a three-car pìle up on a Costa Blanca road in Spain

Spain’s Andalucia to implement ‘Exceptional’ measures to control wild boar population—including selective hunting

GOT A STORY? Email us at [email protected] FOLLOWING recurrent sightings of wild boars in urban areas, including several boars which surprised beachgoers in Marbella last

7 Aug, 2023 @ 11:15

Andalucia·Animals·Environment·Lead

Spain passes animal rights bill, but excludes hunting dogs from new protections

A CONTROVERSIAL new animal rights law has passed the Spanish parliament, but with an important exception: it will not cover hunting dogs or other animals

12 Feb, 2023 @ 14:15

Lead·National News·Politics

Spanish animal rights party shares bizarre video of naked hunter with a partridge hanging from his genitals

PACMA, Spain’s animal-rights political party, has shared a bizarre video of a naked hunter via its social media accounts. In the recording, a man – whose face

3 Nov, 2022 @ 19:15

Lead·National News

PP fails in bid to overturn wolf hunting ban in Spain

A BID to overturn Spain’s wolf hunting ban by Spain’s conservative opposition party has been rejected by parliament. The Popular Party (PP), supported by several

28 May, 2022 @ 17:45

Lead·National News·Nature·Premium

Six Cute Looking Flying Fox Pups Born In Benidorm's Terra Natura In Spain

IN PICS: Six cute-looking flying fox babies are born in Benidorm’s Terra Natura in Spain

SIX flying fox pups have been born and are doing well at Benidorm’s Terra Natura Zoo. At birth they weighed in at around 50 grams

4 Apr, 2022 @ 14:15

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead·Nature

deer laid out after the hunt. Photo: Ecologistas en accion

‘Orgy of blood and death’: Outrage over mass slaughter of trapped animals during hunt in southern Spain

THEY each paid €1000 to participate in the shoot which took place on a huge private estate in Andalucia. The 70 hunters dispatched half a

9 Feb, 2022 @ 10:15

Environment·Lead·Nature

Wolf hunting to be banned in Spain but divisions persist over predator

THE wolf has divided society for centuries but now it will be protected in Spain after a ban on hunting comes into action from September.

29 May, 2021 @ 11:00

Environment·Lead·National News

Two hunters convicted of shooting protected wolf in Spain in landmark case

TWO hunters have been convicted for the shooting of an Iberian wolf back in 2015. The shooting took place on November 29 in the town

12 Jun, 2020 @ 18:28

Crime & Law·Environment·Lead·Madrid

Hunters blamed after bullet-ridden corpse of endangered Iberian Lynx found in Spain

HUNTERS have been blamed after the bullet-ridden body of a rare Iberian Lynx was found by a police sniffer dog. Guardia Civil had launched a

18 Apr, 2020 @ 14:43

Lead·National News

‘DIRTY SECRET’: Spain’s hunters leave 50,000 dogs to die with many thrown down wells as hunting season ends

Previously dogs were tied to tree branches or had their throats cut, and some were even tied to railway tracks or burned alive

4 Mar, 2019 @ 11:57

Crime & Law·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: British expat’s ‘beautiful’ rescue pup mauled to death by ‘out of control’ hunting dogs despite BAN on her land in southern Spain

Her Daschund mix was ‘torn to shreds’ by an out-of-control pack of hunting dogs

4 Feb, 2019 @ 16:13

Environment·Granada·Lead

Expat appears in court after shooting and killing boy, 4, during hunt in Spain’s Andalucia

The boy, from Ecija, was taking part in the hunt with his father when he was tragically shot

21 Jan, 2019 @ 12:45

Lead·Sevilla

WATCH: Hunter in Spain throws injured fox through air and repeatedly STAMPS on its head (WARNING: distressing images)

SHOCKING images have shown a Spanish hunter chase a fox and then smile to the camera after he stamps on its head. The hunter, in

30 Dec, 2018 @ 11:00

Crime & Law·Environment·Lead·Nature

Hunters defend shocking video of dogs and deer falling off cliff as ‘isolated incident’ as politicians call for BAN

HUNTERS have hit back after a video of dogs and a deer falling off a cliff during a hunt went viral. The footage has been

19 Nov, 2018 @ 11:04

Environment·Lead·Politics

WATCH: Heart-stopping footage of dogs and deer falling off cliff during hunt in Spain (WARNING: Distressing footage)

https://www.facebook.com/juan.lopezdeuralde/videos/518715038594875/ THIS is the heart-stopping moment around a dozen dogs and a deer fell off a cliff during a hunt in Spain. The footage was

18 Nov, 2018 @ 16:58

Environment·Lead

WATCH: 300 dogs chained to walls living in their own faeces and urine in Spain’s Andalucia

Ningún animal debería vivir así… ? ¡No permitas que los cazadores abandonen y maltraten así a los animales!? Te esperamos ahora a las 11:00h en

1 Oct, 2018 @ 12:38

Cordoba·Crime & Law·Lead

Hunting licence renewals drop in Spain and Andalucia

A total of 2,936 permisos in the region lapsed without renewal in 2016, much higher than in Madrid (1,803) and Cataluña (1,423), the other top

1 May, 2017 @ 11:00

Environment·Lead·Nature

Outrage as Andalucia Partido Popular branch launches campaign to protect hunting as a ‘cultural practice’

They argue it has 'deep roots' in the province

26 Mar, 2017 @ 10:30

Cordoba·Crime & Law·Environment·La Cultura·Lead·National News

Animals extinction cantabrian brown bear

Which animals are most at risk of extinction in Spain?

Check out 11 native species still living life on the edge

5 Mar, 2017 @ 21:00

Lead·Nature

Hunter shoots to death two forest rangers at point blank range after being asked to show his hunting license

The shooter has claimed he has 'no memory' of the murders

23 Jan, 2017 @ 13:56

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead·National News

Hunter killed by wild boar in Galicia

Man was stooping to kill animal with a knife when it attacked

19 Oct, 2015 @ 14:19

Featured·National News

Spain slaughters and abandons 100,000 hunting dogs every year

When they’re no longer useful to their owners, these dogs meet a tragic fate

26 Aug, 2015 @ 13:14

La Cultura·Lead

March in Malaga and Madrid against annual slaughter of thousands of dogs

The Malaga march is being held on February 1

28 Jan, 2015 @ 12:24

Malaga