Some stunning photos here of Iberian lynx in the wild in the Sierra de Andújar by Pete Oxford, who notes “I set myself up, not with the eco-tourists, but instead, on a private ranch owned by the Junta of Andalucia – prime lynx habitat and the center of a scientific conservation effort organized by LIFE.”
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Spain threatend 45% cuts to solar PV
August 3, 2010
The Spanish Ministry of Industry has announced plans to cut feed-in tariffs for photovoltaic installations by up to 45 per cent. Spain is currently the biggest solar generator in the world. The Guardian
World's largest solar power station opens in Spain
July 13, 2010
Spain has just opened the world’s largest solar power station, with which it has overtaken the USA as the biggest solar generator. The country’s total solar power production is now equivalent to the output of a nuclear power station. The new La Florida solar plant in Badajoz is a parabolic trough which collects solar energy by reflecting it off a parabolic mirror on to a fluid-filled tub. Read in The Guardian
Goya's Madrid hill saved from builders
July 8, 2010
Environmentalists battling to save a popular green ridge in old Madrid depicted in Francisco de Goya’s painting La Pradera de San Isidro have won a reprieve from development. Read Goya’s hill saved from developers (The Independent)
Building craze threatens biosphere status of Lanzarote
July 7, 2010
Many tourists travel to Lanzarote for nothing more than a sunny beach and a pitcher of sangria with a cliff-top view. But the Spanish Canary Island is also a Unesco biosphere site: an arid stretch of lava fields, salt marshes and coastal mountains where high-rises are taboo. And for decades, the island’s elegant-and-ecological style of tourism defied the…Read in The Independent
Effect of forest fire on birds in the Pyrenees
July 6, 2010
Bears spotted close to Pyrenean tourist area
July 2, 2010
Three bears have been spotted by wildlife photographer Oriol Alemany close to a tourist area in the Vall d’Aran. The two sub-adults and one adult are almost certainly Hvala and her offspring Nhèu’ y ‘Noisette’. The animals are being tracked to reduce the risk of tourists disturbing them. Here
Mediterranean Storm-petrel in Catalonia
June 16, 2010
Interesting page on the recovery programme of the Mediterranean Storm-Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus melitensis in Catalonia.
There are few known coastal breeding sites for the in Spain and France, apart from their core breeding areas in the Balearics and central Mediterranean. After carrying out some years of a ringing program in the Costa Brava area, Catalonia, some potential breeding areas for the Mediterranean Storm-Petrel (very irregular and endangered breeding species in the area, regularly recorded in Spring and Summer offshore) were identified. From Birds in Spain Blog (lots of photos
Andoni Canela
June 9, 2010
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