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Among the chickpea and wheat fields in the southeast of Huelva, there is something you can't see... a shadow that hangs low, silent, elusive. In Tejada, one of the oldest landscapes in Andalusia, a secret colony of the ashen harrier survives, a steppe bird in decline that only resists thanks to the constant vigilance of those who are still looking at the sky.



In the forests of Burgos, a “deer” with enormous horns and shiny armor lives hidden under the bark... but it's only a few centimeters long, it's a beetle! The Lucanus cervus, together with the beautiful Rosalia alpina, is part of the saproxyl community: creatures that inhabit dead wood and keep the forests of Castile and León alive from the shadows.



On a remote bank of the Tagus, a bitten branch appeared. Then, fingerprints. And finally, the surprise: the European beaver was back. After having disappeared from the peninsula for centuries, this protected species now leaves its mark on our new ones. His arrival raises as many questions as he is excited: does he come back on his own... or has he been brought in secret?



Deep in the Valencian mountains, there are villages where wine stopped flowing almost a century ago... but the traces are still there: intact wineries, presses converted into lintels, stone roads that smell of old must and rafts that still collect water. They are “les wineries”, the remains of a wine fever that built up entire villages and today crumbles in silence, stone by stone.



The sun was plummeting on the Talavan panels when a spark ignited the dry grass. Within minutes, the heat turned to flame and the flame to a column of fire. Three kilometers was enough for the Flames to knock on the doors of the town of Monroy. Between panels and sunflowers, the fire recalled that even the cleanest energy needs its own firewall.
