For an animal lover, bullfighting is barbaric. Simple. But it is enmeshed into the culture of Spain. The majority of Spanish people are against it but major bullfights still attract big audiences. The Spanish are often keen hunters too which can lead to conservation issues. …
The Times reports a rather surprising animal welfare law which apparently has just come into force in Spain which makes tying up your dog outside the supermarket while you pop in a crime. And it’s punishable by a hefty fine of a maximum €10,000 ($10,500). …
This is the description on Twitter/X accompanying the photo below: “A photo of a dead wolf tied to the back of a forest guard’s jeep caused outrage among political and animal rights groups in Spain. An Asturian guard killed the wolf in Allande and left …
This is a Spanish tradition. As I have said many times before ‘cultural traditions’ in any country should be dumped or banned if they constitute animal cruelty by any decent measure and/or if they are dangerous for the participants. Often cultural traditions go back hundreds …
I’ve not quite got to the bottom of the reasons behind this but the Spanish government has, it seems, quite recently decriminalised bestiality (sex with animals). You might say that they partially decriminalised it but I really think that you either allow it or you …
The Times reports that local people in Galicia in north-west Spain believe that the noise of wind turbines is jeopardising the survival of their ancestral wild horses. In this beautiful, wild and open yet windy landscape, a wild horse herd belongs to a village, Sabucedo. …
NEWS AND COMMENT-MADRID, SPAIN: It is difficult to imagine something more distasteful during today’s woke movement and, in fact, in general than a bullfight for dwarf bullfighters. Although, it has to be said, immediately, that there is an argument to retain it because it provides …
NEWS AND COMMENT: In the Balearic Island of Majorca, Spain, a working horse pulling a tourist carriage in 40°C heat collapsed causing great consternation among many people and reminding viewers of the Twitter video that it is time to stop this type of commercial enterprise …
The Times reports that sailors off the coast of Spain and Portugal have been told to be vigilant about the possibility of attacks on boats by killer whales. A group of orcas are thought to have bashed into two yachts and put them out of …
