The historical roots of a contemporary groundwater crisis
Published Date: 7/14/2022
Source: phys.org
For well over a century the immense biodiversity of the lands that constitute Spain's DoƱana National Park has attracted the attention of hunters, nature-lovers, and natural scientists from across the Western world. Iberian lynx, fallow and red deer, wild boar, badgers, and vast flocks of migratory and endemic birds thrived in wetlands, dunes, and forests, which have collectively long been considered one of the wildest and most ecologically significant spaces in Western Europe.