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Is this a wolf?

I recently received this mail which provoked the following debate on the forum here. I was interested to read your article on http://www.iberianature.com/material/wolf.html. “On the 4th of July at...

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Mammals of the Picos de Europa

Lisa of the iberianature forum has put together this great page on Picos de Europa mammals with some fantastic photos by Carlos Sanz. There are also sections on birds, flora and butterflies. Photo of...

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Climbing Naranjo de Bulnes

I came across this eerie and beautiful photo of Naranjo de Bulnes, the most famous peak of the Picos de Europa on this climbing page. I also enjoyed the introduction from the same climbing guide: “It...

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Sheep and goats in the Picos de Europa

Lisa has some great photos over at the forum of a sheep and goat show in Potes, Picos de Europa, organised by Fundation for the Conservation of the Lammergeyer. She notes “The FCQ hopes to...

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Dead livestock to be left in Picos

Good news. Dead livestock is to be left uncollected in the Picos de Europa for the first time since 2001 when the EU banned the practice due to Mad Cows’ disease. At present some 20,000 dead animals...

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Innovative breeding techniques for Lammergeier

Using a technique for the first time with this species, the Foundation for the Reintroduction of the Lammergeier hope to release a bird bred completely isolated from human contact. They’ve built a...

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Conservation work camp in the Picos de Europa

The Fundación para la Conservación del Quebrantahuesos is organising a work camp in July with volunteers in the village of Bejes, Cantabria. The camp is centred on helping the maintenance of...

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New, Stricter Protection Laws for the Cantabrian brown bears

A new draft of the Plan for the Recuperation of the Cantabrian brown bear (Plan para la Recuperación del Oso pardo Cantabrico) has been sent by the Castilla y León Environment Ministry to all the...

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Picos de Europa to relax BSE laws

Livestock farmers in the Picos de Europa National Park are soon to be given the option of leaving dead ruminants as carrion instead of the, until now, obligatory and costly removal of cow, sheep and...

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Saving the Cantabrian Capercaillie from extinction

As part of the Spanish ornithological society SEO/Birdlife’s campaign, El Sonido del Bosque (Sounds of the Forests), work-camps will begin this August to improve the habitat of the Cantabrian...

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Glaciers to disappear in the Pyrenees by 2050

Glaciar de Monteperdido in the Aragonese Pyrenees (El País) A Spanish study published in The Holocene has concluded that the progressive rise in temperatures since 1890 will lead to the total...

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Liébana’s bears

Residents of the village of Caloca, high in the valley of Liébana, Cantabria, had been observing a female Cantabrian brown bear and her cub on the other side of their valley through the first half of...

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Wolves in the Picos de Europa

Lisa has written this well researched article on her excellent Picos de Europa page on the population and status of  wolves in the Picos de Europa, the only national park in Spain where they are...

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Picos de Europa butterflies

Lovely post by Lisa on butterflies of the Picos de Europa.

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