It’s not all bad news in Spain, while environmental laws are being repealed (eg the Coastal Protection law), CO2 reduction measures scrapped, clean energy subsidies abolished and budgets for parks and reserves decimated, some more progressive measures are still filtering through the system. also one side effect of people abandoning ‘uneconomic’ farms is more habitat for wildlife. Now the almost extinct lynx, brown bears and above all wolves are making a comebeck.
‘Court confirms the ban on wolf hunting south of the Douro River. The lynx population triples in Andalusia in the last ten years
The Supreme Court has upheld a ban on the hunting of wolves south of the Douro River. The ruling rejects virtually all grounds of appeal filed by the Junta de Castilla y León against the judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice of the territory … Continue reading “The Bear, Wolf and Lynx: coming back in Spain”
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