Greenpeace slams Spanish coastal law reform plan
GREENPEACE has threatened to take legal action and stage major protests if the Spanish government pushes through plans to relax coastal planning regulations. The environmental group is angry following comments by Spain’s Environment Minister Miguel Arias Canete promising to make the Coastal Law ‘more compatible with economic growth’. The proposals More...
Madrid animal activists keep wolf from store
A live Iberian wolf escaped a grim afternoon of being gawped at in a store window after swift intervention by an animal rights group on Wednesday. More...
Criticized Coastal Law to get "deep reforms"
The controversial Coastal Law is to be subject to "very deep reforms" aimed at "enhancing the value" of Spain's coastline, Environment Minister Miguel Arias Cañete, of the new Popular Party government, said Friday. More...
ATTACK OF THE RED PALM WEEVIL
Every year Palm Trees throughout the Costa Blanca are attacked by its arch enemy the dreaded ‘Rhynchophorus ferrugineus,' better known as red palm weevil. Torrevieja's City Council has started pruning the More...
IBERDROLA COMMENCES CONSTRUCTION OF ITS FIRST WIND FARM IN ASTURIAS
IBERDROLA has started to build what will be its first wind farm in the Principality of Asturias, the El Candal facility, with an installed capacity of 38 megawatts (MW). This new project marks IBERDROLA’s More...
Cheetah relocated to Spain park successfully
Tyson, a one year and eleven month old hand-reared male Cheetah, completed his relocation from Dubai to the Natura Parc in Mallorca, Spain last month. Shaikha Fatima Bint Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is very fond More...
EUROPE’S LARGEST VENOMOUS SNAKE IS IN BENIDORM
The Terra Natura animal park in Benidorm has welcomed a new resident this week, a four metre long King Cobra called Frank! Frank has arrived at the park along with a female companion, a 3.8 metre specimen. Both More...
Millions of birds migrating to Spain face painful deaths
Up to four million migrating birds will be killed by illegal Spanish hunters this year, with many dying a slow, sticky death in traps that literally glue the animals to the ground, according to campaigners. Thrushes More...
Junk Food Makes Healthy Men Infertile: Study
Researchers from Harvard and the University of Murcia in Spain found that healthy young men who indulge in junk food may become infertile by damaging their sperms. Moreover, foods high in trans fats — like More...
EARTHQUAKE NEAR JUMILLA
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake was registered in the early hours of Monday morning, with an epicentre at Cañada del Trigo, at a central point between Jumilla, Elche and Orihuela. No significant damage was immediately More...
