Spanish police opened an investigation on Monday after tourists discovered the body of a brown bear, a protected species in Spain, with a single gunshot wound to the chest.
A wolf’s head was left dangling from a roadsign in Salas, northern Spain on Monday morning, the latest in a spate of macabre crimes against the protected species.
It is well known that France imports Spain’s wine, its jamon and its olive oil, but now Spain is sending a rather different cargo over the Pyrenees to its northern neighbour.
A brown bear cub that was part of an effort to reintroduce the species to the Pyrenees mountains has been found dead on the Spanish side of the mountain range, local officials said on Monday.
Rampant tourism is threatening the coastline of the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza while other major wilderness areas are also being seriously neglected by Spanish authorities, a new study shows.
The British government has been criticized for its 'Captain Ahab-style' persecution of ruddy ducks, after it complied with diplomatic requests from Madrid to eliminate the species to prevent it flying south to cross-breed with Spain's own native white-headed duck.
Ten of the critically endangered wild cat species have been run over on Spanish roads this year, leading wildlife charity WWF to slam the government's failure to take action.
