Spanish farmers

barley, and eat the bark on vines and fruit trees.

Local Alex Foix said: “A lot of fac‐tors have contributed to the rabbit population explosion: there was the pandemic when no one could hunt for two years; they’ve be ‐come immune to myxomatosis; and the female can produce seven or eight offspring every two months.”

The local government has esti‐ mated that more than 250,000 rab‐bits need to be killed by September to contain the population. To aid in the effort to reduce the numbers, the government has permitted the use of aluminium phosphate,

1m Seats

AS announced by the train operator on Sun‐day, April 23, Renfe will have a total of one mil‐lion seats available for travellers during the May bank holiday in Spain.

It has planned this mammoth total of seats to be available for travel on its AVE, Larga and Me‐dia Distancia trains be‐tween Friday, April 28 and Tuesday, May 2. For more information go to www.renfe.com which releases toxic phosphine gas when introduced into burrows.

Renfe will offer addi‐tional seats to its normal schedules on its AVE, Av‐lo, Alvia, Euromed and Intercity services, with Andalucia, the Levantine area and Catalonia being the most popular desti‐nations.

The company said that this offer during the holi‐day period will save the combustion of 9.5 million litres of fuel, avoiding the emission of 28.8 million CO2 or 135.3 tons of NOx into the atmosphere.

“If it doesn’t rain in April and we have another year like last year, the vines won’t survive,” says Juan Samboda, a member of Pagesos o conills (Farmers or rabbits).

In Catalonia as a whole, water re‐serves are down to about 26 per cent.

Warning of high temperatures’

SPAIN’S Health Ministry is‐sued an advisory, after fore‐casts made by the State Me‐teorological Agency, AEMET, predicted exceptionally high temperatures across the country, for this time of the year.

In view of this warning, the Ministry of Health issued a series of recommenda ‐tions for dealing with the heat.

According to AEMET, tem‐peratures during this week were predicted to reach up to 40ºC in some parts of the country.

Some of the tips included:

1. Drinking water fre ‐quently.

2. Avoid drinks with caf‐feine, alcohol, or sugar.

3. Pay special attention to the elderly, babies, and chil‐dren.

4. Prioritise being in cool places.

5. Avoid practising sports between midday and 5pm. AEMET forecasts for the week state that “a very warm and dry air mass will enter over the Peninsula and the Balearic archipela‐go”, as per a news source. As a result, Spain will ex‐perience a rise in tempera‐tures to record “values typi‐cal of summer and exceptionally high for this time of year”.