Day: February 6, 2014

Lynx population plummets in Andalucia due to budget cutbacks

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The population of wild lynxes is plummeting, official data show, and budget cutbacks are the reason, claims a noted biologist who has just quit the Lynx programme after 12 years. José María Gil-Sánchez quit the Lynx programme in December and says it’s doomed, due to budget cutbacks and political infighting. He claims to have been forced out of the programme due to a difference of opinion with his political bosses.

Pedro Jota attacks Spanish government in “NY Times” (but then says: that’s not my article!)

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Pedro Jota, the flamboyant ex-editor of El Mundo who was fired last week for daring to reveal one too many secrets about Rajoy’s lot, had a very critical piece of his published in the New York Times. You can read it here.: “In Spain, fired for speaking out” Basically he compares Rajoy to Franco and says he ensured all the advertising dried up to his paper, leading to him being fired to unblock the boycott. Continue reading Pedro Jota attacks Spanish government in “NY Times” (but then says: that’s not my article!)→