Court says harm to domestic animal is misdemeanor
Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld a Cantabrian regional court ruling against a man accused of beating and causing serious injuries to a…
Animal Welfare
Post-lockdown ‘new normalcy’ places bullfights on hold
As Spain prepares to return to a “new normality” when the country’s COVID-19 lockdown is lifted later this month, continued restrictions on…
Iberian lynx reintroduced into Castilla-La Mancha wild
Regional government officials in Castilla-La Mancha have announced the release of an 11-month-old Iberian lynx into the Montes de Toledo, bringing to…
Guardia Civil see rise in poison, traps to kill animals
All over the world, animals are trapped, removed or killed both humanely and inhumanely. Many pests such as rats, bugs and birds…
León program to help both homeless and their animals
The Veterinary Hospital of the University of León and the Spanish Red Cross of León have announced they will open two legal…
Coalition gov’t creates new animal welfare directorate
Spain’s new PSOE-Unidas Podemos coalition government has created a new animal protection directorate, coordinating jurisdictions over the protection of the welfare of…
Activists urge end to Catalan ‘correbous’ bull-taunting
Nine animal-rights groups on Wednesday launched a new platform in Barcelona to stop bull-running events in Spain’s northwest region of Catalonia, releasing…
Ecologistas say protected Iberian lynx killed by hunters
► Four animals re-introduced into wild killed by hunters in Montes de Toledo ► Environmental NGO calls on Castilla-La Mancha region to…
Annual survey shows sharp drop in bullfight attendance
► Bullfight attendance has fallen by more than half a million in the past year ► Attendance at lowest level in past…
Campaigners seek to end calf-killing in ‘becerradas’
► PACMA denounces killing of five calves in ‘becerrada’ in Segovia province ► More than 100 municipalities nationwide allow similar killing of…
PACMA condemns Valencia’s ‘tiro y arrastre’ events
► City of Valencia subsidizes upcoming ‘pull-and-drag’ events in September ► Horses pushed, pulled, beaten, whipped to carry loaded wagons through sand…
Iberian lynx cubs born in Caceres, first time in 40 years
► Two lynx cubs born to mother released into wilds of Extremadura in 2015 ► Nationwide, native lynx reintroduction program has seen…
Protesters stage die-in at Pamplona San Fermín festival
► Spain’s AnimaNaturalis & international PETA group protest killing of bulls ► Activists target bull-running, deaths of 54 animals in bullring during…
Once-endangered Iberian lynx now thriving in Spain
► Native species’ population has grown from 94 in 2004 to 686 across Spain ► 100mn euros from EU funded successful breeding,…
Are bullfights and bull-running on the wane in Spain?
► All events involving bulls fell by 2.1% in 2018, with bullfighting falling 4.7% ► Animal rights activists say 8,400 bulls will…
Barcelona to convert municipal zoo to animal sanctuary
► 2,000 animals from 300 species await transfer to sanctuaries worldwide ► 11 endangered species to remain at zoo pending release into…
PACMA again defeated by Spain’s electoral legislation
Animal-rights party PACMA (Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal, or ‘Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals’) has criticized Spain’s electoral legislation for…
Animal-rights party slams VOX, right-wing in video
Spain’s animal-rights party, PACMA (Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal, or ‘Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals’), has issued a hard-hitting campaign…
PACMA bullfight protest in Sevilla in run-up to elections
Spain’s animal-rights party, PACMA (Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal, or ‘Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals’), has called its annual protest…
Activists project animal cruelty video onto McDonald’s
► Igualdad Animal protests animal cruelty in McDonald’s food production ► Video projected onto McDonald’s facade on International Day Without Meat ►…
High court bars public killing of Toro de la Vega bulls
Spain’s Supreme Court issued a definitive ruling on Monday that bans the public killing of bulls in the controversial Toro de la…
Castilla-León regional court halts hunting in mid-season
The Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) in the region of Castilla-León has issued an injunction stopping hunting at the height of the…
Madrid seeks to prohibit use of animals in circus acts
Madrid’s city government has said it intends to modify an 18-year-old municipal animal protection law in order to ban circus acts using…
Progressive Spain’s Top Ten Video Posts for 2018
Following are 2018’s ‘Top Ten Videos’ posted at Progressive Spain — our third annual selection based on a combination of the power,…
Local gov’t, animal shelters join push for ‘zero sacrifice’
A new public shelter for stray domestic animals in Valencia’s La Ribera region has pledged to adopt a policy of “zero sacrifice”…
Prosecutors open investigation over hunting dogs video
Public prosecutors in the province of Cáceres have opened a criminal investigation into animal cruelty after disturbing video footage circulated on social…
Unidos Podemos seeks hunting curb to protect wildlife
The Unidos Podemos parliamentary group in Congress has called on the Socialist party government of President Pedro Sánchez to introduce greater restrictions…
PACMA to defend animal rights in Andalucía elections
Spain’s PACMA animal-rights party has announced its slate of candidates for 2nd December regional elections in Andalucía, saying the party is campaigning…
Iglesias’ bullfight referendum idea trampled in the ring
Pablo Iglesias, leader of the national leftwing Podemos party, figuratively threw his hat into the ring on Friday with the suggestion of…
‘Misión Abolición’ protest calls for end to bullfights
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Madrid Saturday to protest against bullfighting and to draw specific attention to the cruelty…
Activists protest animal cruelty at Pamplona festival
More than a hundred animal-rights activists gathered in the town square of Pamplona to protest animal cruelty at last week’s opening of…