MADRID (AP) — Spain's government activated an environmental emergency alert Saturday over oil slicks that threaten pristine beaches on the southwestern Canary Islands. Greenpeace posted photographs of a dolphin partially coated in oil, while Spanish state television TVE broadcast images of workers cleaning a rocky beach that was stained black with oil.
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Demonstrators also assembled in Madrid and Barcelona to express solidarity with the protests in the Canary Islands. In 2023 the islands welcomed 13.9 million visitors, while their resident ...
04/21/2024 - 9:38 am | View Link - Thousands protest in Spain's Canary Islands over mass tourism
The Canary Islands have limits and people's patience too," Antonio Bullon, one of the protest leaders, told Reuters. The archipelago of 2.2 million people was visited by nearly 14 million foreign ...
04/21/2024 - 5:05 am | View Link - Thousands protest against over-tourism in Spain's Canary Islands
Spain's Canary Islands, an archipelago of 2.2 million people, were visited by nearly 14 million foreign tourists in 2023, up 13 per cent from the previous year, Al Jazeera reported, citing the ...
04/21/2024 - 12:34 am | View Link - Thousands rally in Spain's Canary Islands against mass tourism
and "Canaries have a limit" Tens of thousands of people in Spain's Canary Islands have rallied against a model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago. The protesters ...
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators have hit the streets of Spain’s Canary Islands to demand changes to the model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago. An estimated ...
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