Gov’t study shows animal abandonment in Spain slowing, but still 15% greater than at 2006 levels
• Census figures on number of pets overall in Spain vary widely • Study cites sharp increase in animal abuse cases since…
Animal Welfare
Fledgling animal-rights party gets more votes than other parties, but no seats in Congress of Deputies
• PACMA nets more votes for Congress than either BILDU or Canary Coalition • Animal-rights campaigners gather more than 1 million votes…
Confectioner changes name of ‘polvorones’ under pressure over town’s bloody bull-baiting festival
• Tordesillas company bows to pressure, removes reference to bloody festival • Town’s bull-baiting spectacle met with increasingly greater protest each year…
Animal rights group denounces local government permits to shoot greyhounds abandoned by owners
• Authorities in Ávila encourage hunters to kill stray animals • Group says abandoned dogs should be trapped, not shot by hunters…
Podemos-led measure reassigns Madrid regional bullfighting budget to help domestic abuse victims
• One-third of Madrid region’s funding of bullfighting activities cut • Opposition shifts 414,000 euros to support victims of gender violence An…
Animal-rights activists bare bodies in chilly Barcelona protest over leather luxury apparel
• Annual AnimaNaturalis protest staged in downtown Placa de Catalunya • Protesters draw attention to use of animal skins in leather fashion…
#VIDEO: Animal Equality says 1.5 mn chicks die inhumanely each day in Spanish poultry incubators
• Animal-rights group says industry treatment of birds is cruel, unnecessary • Massive, avoidable destruction of animals detailed in report and online…
Anti-bullfighting activists deface matador’s statue in Sevilla with slogan ‘Torture is not culture’
• Animal-rights activists splashed red paint on statue’s hands and face • No group has claimed responsibility for the attack near Sevilla’s…
Animal rights party to field election candidates for first time in Spain’s upcoming Dec. 20 balloting
• Animal-rights group runs for Congress, Senate to publicize plight of animals • PACMA gathered necessary 7,000 signatures to place candidates on…
Petitioners oppose PP government proposal to offer bullfighting courses to Spanish teenagers
• More than 430,000 Spaniards oppose bullfighting in classrooms • Two-year elective bullfighting course for teenagers hits public opposition Hundreds of thousands…
Bullfighting on the wane in Spain, as youth no longer identify with once-national pastime
• Younger generations of Spaniards are largely disinterested in bullfighting • Local and regional bans on the spectacle are growing throughout Spain…