THE Malaga authorities are to debate an audacious plan to turn the mountains that hug the Costa del Sol into a giant nature reserve. By Wendy Williams The scheme proposed by the IU opposition party would see the Sierra de Mijas turned into a Natural Park to prevent it from being destroyed by further construction. [...]

  The luxury product, also known as ‘pearls of Aphrodite’ due to its circular shape and pearly colour, comes from the eggs of a type of snail, native to Latin America IT is the latest hot ingredient being used in haute cuisine. By Wendy Williams And now a Cadiz-based company is the first in Spain [...]

TWENTY of the best chefs in Andalucia are to go head-to-head in a 2000 euro goat recipe challenge. The finalists of the annual competition will fight it out at the Hotel Escuela Convento Santo Domingo, in Archidona, on October 1. Each of the chefs, who come from some of Andalucia’s top restaurants, has their own [...]

THE Terra Sana Cooking Club in Marbella is back after a summer break with new classes for kids and adults from the healthy food restaurant group. Kids classes will start on September 18, 2010 and then run every Saturday from 11.30am – 1pm. Mexican food is on the menu for the first class and the [...]

IT is one of the sweetest investments to be made in the Axarquia for years. The Junta has agreed to cough up 355,000 euros to help turn the Colmenar honey museum into one of Europe’s best. As well as investing in new honey-making equipment, the money will be spent on upgrading the museum, marketing and [...]

ANDALUCIA is set to start charging tax for plastic carrier bags, beginning next year. Shops will charge five cents per carrier bag from January, rising to ten cents by the end of the year.

AFTER the extinction of the Alimoche vulture in Malaga, Andalucia is stepping up efforts to save another endangered species. The Junta’s environment department has so far rescued 15 chicks born to the Spanish Imperial Eagle this year. All the birds were taken to the San Jeronimo centre, in Sevilla, as part of its protection programme [...]

MALAGA’S last breeding pair of rare Egyptian vultures have been found dead, making the species extinct in the province. By Nicola Cowell The pair of Alimoche Vultures were found by the Guadalteba reservoir by environmental officers who had been monitoring the critically-endangered species for the last 12 years. Andalucia’s Association for the Defence of Nature [...]