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Wild boar sightings rise to 74% of all municipalities in Spain's Costa Blanca and Valencia areas

Wild boar sightings soar to 74% of all municipalities in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas

WILD BOAR sightings have soared over a year in the Valencian Community according to the Ministry of Agriculture. 283 municipalities reported sightings in the region

7 Jun, 2023 @ 15:45

Castellon·Costa Blanca·Lead·Nature·Valencia·Valencian Community

Alarming loss of insect species in Mediterranean forests caused by global warming warns Costa Blanca study in Spain

Alarming loss of insect species in Mediterranean forests caused by global warming says study in Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN Alicante University study says that global warming has caused an ‘alarming’ loss of insect species in Mediterranean forests. The report from the university’s Ibero-American

5 Jun, 2023 @ 17:15

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·Nature

Iberian Lynx population continues to rise in rural Spain and Portugal

THE IBERIAN LYNX population is continuing to rise in the wild of the Iberian Peninsula with 1,668 animals reported in 2022 according to the Ministry

20 May, 2023 @ 10:00

Andalucia·Lead·Nature

Baby born to world’s largest porcupine species gets special treatment at Spain’s Valencia

BIOPARC Valencia has a new resident- a baby South African porcupine called Asani, meaning rebel in the Swahili language. South African porcupines- Hystrix africaeaustralis- are

16 May, 2023 @ 11:42

Lead·Nature·Valencia·Valencian Community

Bioparc Valencia Helps To Preserve One Of The Most Threatened Amphibians In Spain

Bioparc Valencia helps to reproduce one of the most threatened amphibians in Spain

A PROJECT to conserve and raise numbers of the gallipato amphibian is getting positive results in the Valencian Community. The gallipato- part of the salamander

3 May, 2023 @ 16:30

Environment·Lead·Nature·Valencia·Valencian Community

Thank you very munch: El Corte Ingles helps to feed endangered species in Fuengirola Bioparc

EL Corte Inglés and BIOPARC Fuengirola have renewed their collaboration for the donation of surplus fruit and vegetables. Department stores in Malaga that belong to

13 Apr, 2023 @ 19:00

Environment·Lead·Malaga·Nature·Other News

13-year-old rescued after a 12-metre fall at Tajo river in Ronda

A 13-year-old boy had to be rescued after he fell 12 metres (39 feet) as he tried to clamber down Ronda’s towering Tajo gorge to

12 Apr, 2023 @ 14:15

Lead·Malaga·Nature

Forty-three Iberian lynx cubs born in Spanish reintroduction program throughout 2022

A TOTAL of 43 new Iberian lynx cubs have been born throughout 2022 in different breeding centres managed by National Parks across Spain. The 2022

27 Mar, 2023 @ 08:45

Environment·Lead·Nature

Spain’s Malaga records the highest temperature on Iberian Peninsula this Easter Sunday

Spain’s Malaga records second warmest winter in 60 years and braces for a record-breaking hot spring

MALAGA has recorded the second warmest winter since 1961, with temperatures registering 1.5ºC above average for this season, with spring forecast to follow the ‘above

21 Mar, 2023 @ 08:45

Environment·Malaga·Nature·Weather

Blooming Blossoms: Cherry blossom in Malaga named as one of most beautiful in all of Spain

ONE of the most beautiful spring sights in Spain is the cherry blossoms and Malaga can boast one of the most beautiful cherry blossom tree

24 Feb, 2023 @ 09:15

Lead·Malaga·Nature·Other News

Endangered Iberian lynx returning to Spain's Murcia region

Endangered Iberian lynx to return to Spain’s Murcia region

TWO pairs of endangered Iberian lynxes will start prowling around remote high areas above Lorca on March 3 to start the project of reintroducing the

17 Feb, 2023 @ 11:32

Environment·Lead·Murcia·Nature

Bornean Orangutan At Bioparc Fuengirola In Malaga, Spain 14 Aug 2021

Bioparc in Spain’s Fuengirola opens registration period for its White Week children’s camp

THE last week of February is synonymous in the province of Malaga with school holidays to celebrate the Day of Andalucia (Dia de Andalucia), which

6 Feb, 2023 @ 09:15

Malaga·Nature·Other News

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

1 Feb, 2023 @ 08:45

Lead·Malaga·Nature·Other News

Farmer On Spain's Costa Blanca Set Up Illegal Trap To Capture And Keep Finches

Farmer on Spain’s Costa Blanca trapped and kept finches to use and breed for singing contests

A 78-year old Mutxamel farmer is being investigated for setting up an intricate homemade trap to illegally capture finches. The Guardia Civil said in many

26 Jan, 2023 @ 14:28

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Nature·Valencian Community

Eagle will land to scare off pesky seagulls from Costa Blanca castle in Spain

DENIA is deploying shock tactics by getting an eagle to cut the seagull population around the city’s castle. Lokimica- who run Denia council’s pest-control services-

24 Jan, 2023 @ 19:00

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·Nature·Valencian Community

Power firm Iberdrola fined €68,000 after griffon vulture is electrocuted in Spain’s Valencia

IBERDROLA’S power distribution division has been fined €68,667 after a griffon vulture was electrocuted on a Valencia Province power line. The penalty was imposed by

17 Jan, 2023 @ 19:30

Environment·Lead·Nature·Valencia·Valencian Community

Online seller of endangered toads is punished in Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN Alicante man has been fined €1,080 for selling natterjack toads on the internet. He’s also been banned from breeding or trading wild animals for

28 Dec, 2022 @ 17:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Nature·Valencian Community

Green Turtle (chelonia Mydas) (6133097910)

Twenty-four marine animal strandings recorded along Spain’s Doñana coasts this year—including endangered green turtle

THIS year, 2022, has seen multiple marine animals stranded on the coasts of Doñana. The annual Doñana Natural Area Management Report on observations and strandings

28 Dec, 2022 @ 08:45

Environment·Lead·Nature

Puzzling mass arrival of ‘penguin birds’ to Spanish coasts

THE mysterious mass arrival of penguin-like birds to Spanish coasts is surprising experts. According to wildlife experts, several specimens of ‘Alca torda’ or ‘penguin birds’

1 Dec, 2022 @ 09:15

Environment·Lead·Nature·Other News

Scientists Find Fossil Of Europe's Largest Ever Turtle With Size Like Vw Beetle Car In Northern Spain

Scientists find fossils of Europe’s largest-ever turtle in Spain with size like VW Beetle car

SCIENTISTS have identified fossil remains dating back 70 million years as belonging to the largest-ever turtle recorded in Europe. A set of bones were found

20 Nov, 2022 @ 09:15

Lead·Nature

Happy tenth birthday to first gorilla born in Spain’s Valencia region

BIOPARC Valencia got out the bunting on Wednesday to celebrate the tenth birthday of the first gorilla to be born in the Valencian Community. Ebo’s

26 Oct, 2022 @ 16:10

Environment·Lead·Nature·Valencia·Valencian Community

HEART-WARMING TAILS OF LA ALPUJARRA…

THE Alpujarra is a region known for its fantastic range of fauna and flora. Its cultivated slopes play home to everything from roaming Ibex (mountain

8 Sep, 2022 @ 20:16

Featured·Granada·Nature

Sea Urchin Poacher Gets Surprised By Police When Exiting Sea On Spain's Costa Blanca

Sea urchin poacher gets surprised by police while exiting sea on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A sea urchin poacher was caught in the act by the Guardia Civil as he got out of the water in a rocky area of

2 Sep, 2022 @ 14:15

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·Nature·Valencian Community

WATCH: Beautiful encounter between dog and dolphin in Galician port, northwestern Spain

AN owner has captured the extraordinary encounter between his dog and a dolphin as they played together in waters off Spain’s northwestern region of Galicia.

19 Aug, 2022 @ 14:15

Environment·Lead·Nature