Spain refers shooting of 60-year-old orca matriarch Toñi to prosecutors
Spanish authorities have referred the shooting of Toñi, the oldest known orca in the Strait of Gibraltar and Gulf of Cadiz, to environmental prosecutors as...
Animal Rights
86-year-old Briton among injured as San Fermín bull-running festival draws to a close
Spain’s world-famous San Fermín festival in Pamplona (Navarra) came to an end on Tuesday, after its eighth and final bull run left 10 participants injured, including...
Vatican audience disrupted by anti-bullfighting activists before pope’s Spain trip
Two anti-bullfighting activists were removed from St Peter’s Square in Rome on Wednesday after briefly disrupting Pope Leo’s popemobile during a public audience at the...
Spain’s leading matador ‘stable but in pain’ after goring to groin area in Seville
Spain’s leading matador, José Antonio Morante de la Puebla, is ‘stable but in pain’ according to the EFE news agency, after being gored by a...
Spain advances legal reform to ban minors from attending or taking part in bullfighting
The Spanish government has presented a draft proposal that would prevent children and teenagers from attending or taking part in bullfights and other events involving...
Catalan town halts black cat adoptions amid fears of Halloween ‘rituals’
Long associated with superstition, bad (or good) luck and occult symbolism, black cats have been given special protection in a Catalan town that has temporarily...
Guardia Civil bust illegal trafficking ring of protected species in Valencia
Spain’s Guardia Civil said on Tuesday that it had broken up an illegal network involved in trading wild animals, among them species that are endangered...
One man gored, 7 others injured on second day of Pamplona’s bull-running festival
One man was gored and seven others sustained minor injuries on Tuesday, during the second day of the San Fermín festival in Pamplona (Navarra), where thousands pack...
Guardia Civil arrest two people in Mallorca for alleged smuggling of exotic felines
Spain’s Guardia Civil police have arrested two people in connection with the sale of exotic felines on the internet. The authorities seized 19 animals, including a...
Spanish farmer gets 15-month jail sentence for letting 170 geese starve to death
The criminal division of the Spanish Supreme Court has confirmed a 15-month prison sentence for a farmer from Córdoba (Andalusia) convicted of animal abuse, after...
