(8 Nov 2022)
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Doñana Park, Andalucia - 19 October 2022
1. Close of cracked land on Santa Olalla lagoon
HEADLINE: "Spain's world heritage wetlands are running dry"
2. Tilt up from dry land to surrounding lagoon area
3. Biologist Carmen Diaz walking on the dry lagoon
4. Pan of lagoon with a very thin bright water on the ground
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carmen Diaz, Doñana Nature Reserve Biologist: (++PARTLY OVERLAYS SHOT 4++)
"A lot, it hurts a lot. To see the last water point Santa Ollala dry like that means that everything is dry. Between 60 to 70 % of the temporary lagoons have been lost."
6. Wide of dried
7. Dried lagoon with measurement instrument
ANNOTATION: Farming and tourism had already drained the aquifer feeding Doñana.
8. Wide of deer in park
ANNOTATION: "Then came climate change with record high temperatures and drought."
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Almonte, Andalucia - 18 October 2022
9. Wide of strawberry plantation at a berry farm
10. Close of strawberry
11. Pan of strawberry plantation
ANNOTATION: Doñana Park may still be known as the crown jewel, but the red berries became the golden crop.
12. Close of strawberries
ANNOTATION: Although more valuable than traditional olives they need more water to grow.
13. Workers on plantation
14. Various of irrigation system on plantation
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manuel Delgado, spokesman for Almonte Puerta Doñana Farmers Association: ++PARTLY OVERLAYS SHOTS 13-14++
"The agriculture of Almonte cannot even be conceived without Doñana, in fact we are the first ones to be conscious of the products that can be used, of the amount of water we can use, of the amount of growing area that one can have."
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Huelva province, Andalucia - 18 October 2022
16. Wide of plantation of berries
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Huelva province, Andalucia - 19 October 2022
17. Various of blackberry plantation
ANNOTATION: Not all lands have irrigation right, but with the berry trade booming, some farmers are demanding more access to water.
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Julio Diaz, spokesman for platform on irrigation rights for farmers in Huelva:
"To harmonise the sustainability of a unique environment and to combine it with the human being activity that lives here, that has always lived here, is the challenge for Doñana."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Doñana, Andalucia - 18/19 October 2022
19. Wide of horses in park
20. Tourists with binoculars trying to spot animals
21. Horse grazing, church in background
22. Dry wetland of park next to El Rocio village with deer
23. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carmen Diaz, Doñana Nature Reserve Biologist: ++PARTLY OVERLAYS SHOT 22++
"We will be big producers of berries, but we will lose part of the world's heritage."
24. Dry wetland of park next to El Rocio village with deer
25. Wide of village with sign reading "National Park", AUDIO church bells
STORYLINE:
Europe's largest wetlands, which the United Nations cultural agency has designated as a World Heritage site and a biosphere reserve, Doñana National Park in southern Spain are running dry, .
Farming and tourist had already drained the aquifer feeding Doñana in Andalucia, then came climate change with record high temperatures and drought.
Located on an estuary next to the Atlantic Ocean in southwest Spain, the 54,000-hectare (133,000-acre) Doñana park of is home to some 500,000 migrating waterfowl and one of the last refuges of the endangered Iberian lynx and Spanish imperial eagle.
The lands near Doñana have become major producers of strawberries, in particular.
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