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      • Spring arrives for common toads
        There was something strange down there in the water. I was walking the GR 5 from Sant Celoni to Montseny village, and had just spotted a grape hyacinth.  There’d been violets and speedwell along the way, but this was the first real spring bloom of the year.  I went up to have a look at the [...]
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      • A history of Mojácar
        I enjoyed this potted history of Mojácar: Mojácar used to be a town of around 6,000 people in as far back as 1870. It maintained this number of inhabitants until round about 1900 when, slowly, numbers began to fall, speeding its descent in the 1930s. Through the various local vicissitudes of the drop in the local [...]
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        • Roman cuisine in Spain
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      Shrine to woman killed by wolves
      March 8, 2010
      New one for Places in Spain. A shrine to a woman supposedly devoured by wolves on Mt Gorbea in the Basque Country.

      Three lynxes die from renal disease
      March 8, 2010
      Three Iberian lynxes of the captive breeding programme have died in recent weeks from a renal disease. Lynxes in the wild are thought not to suffer from this disease. El País

      Rain in February in Spain
      March 8, 2010
      According to the INM, February was the wettest for 30 years in Spain. See also rain in Andalucia in February. This comes after a very wet January. March has begun with heavy rains and snowfalls. When will it end?

      Interview about wolves
      March 8, 2010
      Radio interview on Canal Ser with Carlos Sanz, perhaps the biggest expert on wolves in Spain and livestock farmer Rodrigo Peñalosa, looking at both sides of the debate around wolves in Spain. Listen here.

      Rain in Andalucia
      March 6, 2010
      The rains keep falling. Rainfall in Andalucia in February, after a very wet January, was THREE times as high as average in the last thirty years. Parts of Cadiz received more than 200mm. Recent records have been smashed across the region. More from El Periodico See also Rainy Spain

      Documentary about bears
      March 2, 2010
      Interesting documentary from TVE about bears in the Cordillera Cantábrica with Guillermo Palomero, President of Fundación Oso Pardo. Watch here

      Waste could produce up to 7% Spain's electricity
      February 26, 2010
      Researchers have calculated the energy and economic potential of urban solid waste, sludge from water treatment plants and livestock slurry for generating electricity in Spain. They believe waste in Spain could generate between 8.13 and 20.95 TWh (terawatt hours), representing some 7% of the country’s needs. More here

      Biggest wave in the Cantabrian Sea
      February 22, 2010
      The biggest wave ever recorded in the Cantabrian Sea was a monster of 26.1m, spotted 40km off the coast of Santender on 22 January 2009. There you go.

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