Agricultural contaminants threaten Donana
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 10:14
in Earth & Climate
Eleven years after the Aznalcollar pyrite mine rupture, in the north of the Donana National Park (Huelva), the contamination caused from the spill seems to have been overcome. Spanish researchers have, however, evaluated the environmental quality of the Park's environment with crayfish as bio-indicators. This methodology, the most groundbreaking of its kind in the world, demonstrates that contaminants from intensive agriculture being carried out close to the Park are the main threat in this Biosphere Reserve and are already affecting the Puebla del Rio and Matochal rice paddies...