What a treat this evening! I spotted 2 shrews high up in a night cactus plant. Unfortunately by the time I grabbed my phone I only managed to get a short video of the back of one of them.
Looking online there is very little info. They are endemic to the eastern Canary islands and on the Endangered list.
I'll be ready and waiting tomorrow evening - just in case!

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The dangerous oceanic drum returns to Canarian waters.

This invasive species whose consumption can be deadly is very dangerous for the ecosystem due to its high voracity


The oceanic drum is a fish whose consumption can be fatal. It is easily identified by its scaleless skin, except on the belly, where there are small spines imbued in the skin that shows when it is in danger and swells.



The oceanic drum has come to the Canary Islands to invade us and possibly stay in o

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They discover that the seamounts of the Canary Islands are full of 'Rare Earths'.

The seamounts of the Canary Islands revealed in 2017 an impressive mining potential, especially in the Tropic, where one of the largest reserves of tellurium on the planet was discovered. Current calculations indicate that these areas could supply up to 130 tons per square kilometer of this strategic raw material, known as rare earths, whose supply is controlled by China.



The journal "Marine

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The government promises that there will be Autonomous Police in Fuerteventura in this legislature.

The Government of the Canary Islands will deploy the Canary Islands Police force on the eight islands before the end of the legislature, starting with Lanzarote and La Gomera, where work is already underway with the councils to do so. This was promised on Tuesday by the President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, and the Minister of the Presidency, Justice, Security and Publi

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The extinction of the Canarian houbara accelerates.

Power and telephone lines, roadkills and feral cats accelerate the extinction of the Canary Islands houbara

Researchers from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) show in a study that power and telephone lines, road accidents, wire fences and feral cats are accelerating the demographic decline of the Canary Island houbara, Chlamydotis undulata fuertaventurae.



The researchers have been analysing the popu