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Four people under investigation as Guardia Civil rescue nearly 500 exotic animals from unlicensed shelter

News Desk16th November 202520th November 2025

16th November 202520th November 2025901

Spain’s Guardia Civil police said on Saturday that they had raided an unlicensed animal sanctuary and rescued hundreds of exotic creatures. They also said that...

Spain bans raising of poultry outdoors from Monday due to increase in bird flu cases

News Desk9th November 202513th November 2025

9th November 202513th November 20252285

Spain’s Agriculture Ministry has ordered a preventive measure that bans raising poultry outdoors as of Monday 10 November. No end date has been set. The...

Catalan town halts black cat adoptions amid fears of Halloween ‘rituals’

News Desk16th October 202521st October 2025

16th October 202521st October 20251323

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...

Spanish court applies gender violence law to convict man for killing puppy in front of partner

News Desk25th September 20251st October 2025

25th September 20251st October 20251333

A Spanish court has issued a landmark ruling by convicting a man for killing a puppy in front of his partner, marking the first time...

Guardia Civil bust illegal trafficking ring of protected species in Valencia

News Desk27th August 20252nd September 2025

27th August 20252nd September 20253511

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...

Swimming at beaches in Alicante province prohibited due to rare ‘blue dragon’ sea slug

News Desk21st August 202525th August 2025

21st August 202525th August 20254918

Swimming at beaches along Guardamar del Segura in the Alicante province (Valencia region) was prohibited on Wednesday and Thursday morning after two examples of a...

Spain’s Guardia Civil seize illegal ivory carvings, worth over €226k

News Desk6th August 202511th August 2025

6th August 202511th August 20252425

Spanish authorities have confiscated dozens of ivory carvings believed to have been crafted from the tusks of endangered African and Asian elephants, as part of...

Guardia Civil arrest two people in Mallorca for alleged smuggling of exotic felines

News Desk15th April 202521st April 2025

15th April 202521st April 20251784

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

News Desk8th April 202514th April 2025

8th April 202514th April 20251626

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...

Woman in Alicante throws two dogs out of 8th-floor window as she was ‘fed up’ taking them out

News Desk25th March 202531st March 2025

25th March 202531st March 20252587

A woman in Alicante has been arrested after throwing her two pet dogs from the eighth floor of her apartment, allegedly because she was ‘fed...

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