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Hundreds of sunbeds are covered in anti-tourist graffiti in co-ordinated protest on Tenerife beaches as locals continue their campaign against holidaymakers

Vandals have covered hundreds of sunbeds on two popular Tenerife beaches in anti-tourist graffiti as part of a continued campaign against holidaymakers. Over 230 sunbeds lying on Las Vistas beach and El Camisón, both on the south of the island, were vandalised in the early hours on Thursday morning, local media reported. Local officials said they were appalled by the …

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2 months ago

Best Canary Islands to visit for winter sun holidays in 2024/25

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Best Canary Islands holidays Tenerife open image in gallery Tenerife is sandwiched between the Sahara and the Atlantic and sunny …

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2 months ago

Bemused tourists surrounded by protestors on beach as Spanish locals call for change

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Thousands of locals protested in holiday resorts in Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday against over tourism which they say prices …

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2 months ago

Thousands Protest Over-tourism in Spain's Canary Islands

India Today

Thousands of people protested in holiday resorts in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday against over-tourism. The protesters, under the slogan Canary Islands has a limit, called for a change in the tourism model for the islands, saying prices local people out of the housing market. The protests took place in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and El Hierro …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hope fades after migrant boat sinks off Spanish island

China Daily

By Earle Gale in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-10-01 18:43 Flowers are seen during burial of a migrant in the El Mocanal cemetery, after the sinking of a migrant boat that killed at least nine people and left at least 48 missing, on the island of El Hierro, Spain on Sept 30. The Canary Island's regional president, …

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5 months ago

Thousands of migrant kids have reached the Canary Islands alone. Local officials want Spain’s help

Associated Press

BARCELONA, Spain — The children sometimes won’t stop crying. Health workers dealing with migrants arriving on Spain’s Canary Islands try to understand if the tears are from illness, injury or, as is often the case, from pure shock. “There’s no medicine for that,” said Inmaculada Mora Peces, a 54-year-old emergency doctor who treats migrants arriving on the island of El …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Anti-tourist yobs target holidaymakers' rental cars in Tenerife, with 'Go home' scrawled on a vehicle in latest act of 'tourism-phobia' ahead of huge protest planned for this weekend

Daily Mail

A rental car has been pictured with 'Go Home' graffiti on it in Tenerife ahead of protests this Saturday over the effects of mass tourism. Tenerife daily El Dia said the car belonged to regional rental car company Cicar, which has more than 40 offices across the Canary Islands, and described it as 'another act of tourism-phobia.' A rental car …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

4 migrants are found dead and 64 are rescued as a Mauritanian boat reaches Spain’s Canary Islands

Associated Press

BARCELONA, Spain — Four migrants were found dead and 64 were rescued when a boat from Mauritania reached Spain’s Canary Islands after a dangerous Atlantic journey from West Africa, Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said. The migrants arrived on the island of El Hierro late on Tuesday evening, with the survivors including two women and nine minors, the service said. Nearly …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

4 migrants are found dead and 64 are rescued as a Mauritanian boat reaches Spain's Canary Islands

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1 year, 5 months ago

Blaze ‘out of control’ as more people flee Spain’s La Palma

Al Jazeera

Hundreds of firefighters struggle to keep raging wildfire under control as Canary Islands president pleads with residents to leave their homes. At least 4,000 people have been evacuated as a wildfire rages “out of control” on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma while Europe struggles to cope with a heatwave, according to authorities. In Tenerife, another of the eight …

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2 years ago

Nigerian stowaways found on ship's rudder in Canary Islands

Firstpost

The men found on the Alithini II oil tanker at the Las Palmas port on Monday afternoon appeared to have symptoms of dehydration and hypothermia and were transferred to hospitals on the island for medical attention Barcelona: Three stowaways were found on a ship’s rudder in the Canary Islands after an 11-day ocean voyage from Nigeria, Spain’s maritime rescue service …

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2 years ago

Stowaways found on a ship's rudder in Spain's Canary Islands

The Independent

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2 years, 5 months ago

El Hierro – the little-known Canary island powered by renewable energy

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery El Sabinar, a windswept juniper tree in La Dehesa, El Hierro But the island’s commitment to …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Eruptions from La Palma volcano seen from space: Lava flow slows down after destroying property worth $102 million

India Today

The La Palma volcano on the Spanish Canary Island continues to erupt for the fifth day straight as jets of red hot lava shoot into the sky. Since erupting on Sunday, lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano has destroyed at least 150 houses and forced thousands of people to flee, mostly in Los Llanos de Aridane and nearby El Paso. …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Volcano lava flows towards sea on Canary island La Palma amid earthquakes

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3 years, 3 months ago

Volcano erupts on Spain’s La Palma island; eight houses destroyed, 5,000 people evacuated

Firstpost

According to the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute the island saw its last eruption in 1971 Los Llanos de Aridane : A volcano on Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands as lava flows destroyed isolated houses and threatened to reach the coast. Nobody knows how the …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Volcano erupts on Spanish island in the Atlantic Ocean

India Today

A volcano on Spain's Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity, prompting authorities to speed up evacuations for 1,000 people as lava flows crept toward isolated mountain homes. Read | Spanish island records 4,200 tremors, goes on alert over possible volcanic eruption One black lava flow with a burning tip was sliding …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Migrant boat capsizes near Spain’s Canary Islands, 4 dead

Associated Press

BARCELONA, Spain — Four people died, one of them a child, when a migrant boat believed to be carrying 45 passengers capsized near Spain’s Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Friday. Emergency workers and residents rescued 41 people, including 19 women and seven children, with sub-Saharan nationalities, and they worked overnight until Friday afternoon recovering the bodies of three adults and …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Over 1,600 migrants reach Spain’s Canary Islands, 1 dies

Associated Press

MADRID — More than 1,600 migrants have either been rescued at sea or reached Spain’s Canary Islands in small boats over the weekend, emergency services for the archipelago said Sunday. The body of one person who had died during the perilous journey was recovered by rescuers in waters near the island of El Hierro, the Canary Islands emergency services said. …

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Hundreds of sunbeds are covered in anti-tourist graffiti in co-ordinated protest on Tenerife beaches as locals continue their campaign against holidaymakers

Best Canary Islands to visit for winter sun holidays in 2024/25

Bemused tourists surrounded by protestors on beach as Spanish locals call for change

Thousands Protest Over-tourism in Spain's Canary Islands

Hope fades after migrant boat sinks off Spanish island

Thousands of migrant kids have reached the Canary Islands alone. Local officials want Spain’s help

Anti-tourist yobs target holidaymakers' rental cars in Tenerife, with 'Go home' scrawled on a vehicle in latest act of 'tourism-phobia' ahead of huge protest planned for this weekend

4 migrants are found dead and 64 are rescued as a Mauritanian boat reaches Spain’s Canary Islands

4 migrants are found dead and 64 are rescued as a Mauritanian boat reaches Spain's Canary Islands

Blaze ‘out of control’ as more people flee Spain’s La Palma

Nigerian stowaways found on ship's rudder in Canary Islands

Stowaways found on a ship's rudder in Spain's Canary Islands

El Hierro – the little-known Canary island powered by renewable energy

Eruptions from La Palma volcano seen from space: Lava flow slows down after destroying property worth $102 million

Volcano lava flows towards sea on Canary island La Palma amid earthquakes

Volcano erupts on Spain’s La Palma island; eight houses destroyed, 5,000 people evacuated

Volcano erupts on Spanish island in the Atlantic Ocean

Migrant boat capsizes near Spain’s Canary Islands, 4 dead

Over 1,600 migrants reach Spain’s Canary Islands, 1 dies