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Added on the 28/07/2021 04:00:26 - Copyright : AFP EN
Numbers of the Iberian Lynx in Spain and Portugal are on the up thanks to an ambitious captive breeding programme
Every morning for the last 14 years, Masaoki Tsuchiya has set out in his car before dawn to search for a bird brought back from extinction in Japan. The bird he is looking for is called "toki" in Japanese and its presence in the trees, skies and rice paddies of Tsuchiya's home on Sado island is testament to a remarkable conservation programme.
A project to restore a 1,000-year-old network of water channels is helping farmers in the Sierra Nevada adapt to the effects of the climate crisis as our team on the ground report.
Firefighters managed to stabilise a wildfire that ravaged 3,500 hectares of woods and bushes in southern Spain, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Felix Bolanos said on Friday.
A team of international experts is experimenting with something that has never been done before: successfully re-introducing a nearly-extinct bird species into the wild.