Ebro Delta Saved!! (1 Viewer)

Jamspangle

Up the boro!

• Mar 15, 2004

• #1

We hope - with the defeat of Aznar and his party the threatened pipeline (see: www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=10809&highlight=ebro) they were hell-bent on will most probably not go ahead. The PSOE who have the control of the new government are very anti the pipline and their heartland is Catalonia. Fantastic!! Later Aznar, don´t bother to write....

 

robinm

Registered User

• Mar 15, 2004

• #2

If true, that is fantastic news.

 

Steve G

RAINBIRDER

• Mar 15, 2004

• #3

Muy bien. Are the PSOE more enviromentally conscious in general? I'd love to see the Federal government persuade the Andalucian provincial government to give protected status to La Janda & encourage it's restoration. The loss of La Janda as a massive wetland site must count as one of Europe's greatest enviromental tragedies. It would also be good to see official protected status for some of the Extremaduran steppe habitats.

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Mar 15, 2004

• #4

Excellent news!

Michael

 

steve_nova

Well-known member

• Mar 15, 2004

• #5

I'll second that too!

 

Alastair Rae

London birder

• Mar 16, 2004

• #6

At the risk of appearing overly cynical, I'd advise against cheering an incoming government too loudly on the basis of what they might do.

 

nirofo

Well-known member

• Mar 16, 2004

• #7

Steve G

Check out this website ( http://www.lagunalajanda.org/) re Laguna de La Janda (in Spanish and English). I've spent a lot of birding time in this area over many years, it's a fabulous place, 350 plus Griffons, Egyptians, Bonellis, Short-toed Eagle, Booted, Black Kite, Montagu's and Marsh Harriers, Calandra larks (very common), Short-toed larks, Tawny Pipit, plus lots of other good birds.
Anyone wanting more information and contacts, e-mail me.

nirofo.

 

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Steve G

RAINBIRDER

• Mar 16, 2004

• #8

Thanks Nirofo. It looks like obtaining protected status would be the first step in the "restoration" process.

 

Motmot

Eduardo Amengual

• Mar 16, 2004

• #9

Hi all,
Being from Spain I have to say that the new gov. will be better for the spanish wildlife for sure, couldn't be worse with that b.... Aznar. That doesn't mean the new ones will be good enough though...

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Mar 16, 2004

• #10

nirofo said:

Steve G

Check out this website re Laguna de La Janda (in Spanish and English). I've spent a lot of birding time in this area over many years, it's a fabulous place, 350 plus Griffons, Egyptians, Bonellis, Short-toed Eagle, Booted, Black Kite, Montagu's and Marsh Harriers, Calandra larks (very common), Short-toed larks, Tawny Pipit, plus lots of other good birds.
Anyone wanting more information and contacts, e-mail me.

nirofo.

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La Janda must be one of the best place I have ever been birding... and I have only seen it at its nadir!

 

Jamspangle

Up the boro!

• Mar 17, 2004

• #11

Jane Turner said:

La Janda must be one of the best place I have ever been birding... and I have only seen it at its nadir!

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Also check out the lagoon at Gallocanta - had one full day birding there last week. The locals told us we were crazy, we´d missed the cranes, they´d all gone. By this they meant there were only 12,000 left, with some 40,000 being present at the peak. That and stone curlew, Red Kites, my first male Hen Harrier to name a few (i´ll put it on a trip report one day) - fantastic location.

And I do think the new government will be more environmental. Many links between the left and greens here. My boss at SEO here is a prime mover in the anti-pipeline campaign and from the horses mouth - "This is pretty much the end for the water transfer"

Here´s hoping