Xàbia plans to have the
concession of the Cap de Sant
Antoni lighthouse in June
Xàbia hopes that the concession of
the Cap de Sant Antoni lighthouse
will be ready next June. The
goal is to obtain a license for the
lighthouse to be managed by
the Xàbia Town Hall and turn it
into a visitor’s centre about the
marine reserve. The model they
plan to follow is that of the Albir
lighthouse, though details of the
project are yet to be defined as well
as the cost of conversion. From:
Las Provincias
SEO/Birdlife
volunteers
embark on annual bird count
Spanish ornithological association
SEO/Birdlife mobilied more than
1,000 volunteers in April to help
count bird populations across
Spain, part of the annual drive
to update European censuses
and monitor changes in natural
habitat in the struggle to halt
declining bird populations across
Europe. The volunteers will be
participating in both the Common
Bird Monitoring program, known
by its Spanish acronym as SACRE,
and the NOCTUA program to
provide data for estimating the
current population of nocturnal
birds across Spain.
From mid-April, the annual
bird count will be conducted
by volunteers in both rural and
urban areas nationwide and this
year SEO/Birdlife is particularly
interested in monitoring bird
populations in areas where data
collection has been scant in recent
years, particularly in Castilla-
La Mancha, La Rioja, Aragon,
Asturias, the Balearic Islands
and Galicia. For full story see:
Progressive Spain.