{"id":123511,"date":"2025-05-22T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123511\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:08:09","slug":"wetlands-campaign-launched-against-guggenheim-expansion-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123511\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetlands Campaign Launched Against Guggenheim Expansion in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands launched a campaign to protect the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve<\/a> from an extension of the Guggenheim Museum, which has been trying to expand its Bilbao outpost.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA planned extension of the Guggenheim Museum into the Special Area of Conservation of the Biosphere Reserve risks undermining biodiversity, water quality, and the integrity of conservation frameworks,\u201d a social media post<\/a> explains of the situation as \u201c77 organisations warn UNESCO, Ramsar Secretariat and the Spanish government about the irreversible consequences of this expansion on biodiversity and water resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tLinked to the post is a petition<\/a> that has been signed by some 2,400 people and counting as of the time of this post.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is a project that has been imposed from outside,\u00a0that does not respond to the needs of the inhabitants\u00a0of the area and is intended to benefit only a few people. Nor is it related to the conservation, social and economic objectives of the reserve, which would be significantly and irreversibly affected,\u201d the petition argues.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe proposed museum<\/a>\u00a0is slated to span the town of Guernica and the Urdaibai reserve. It is expected to bring in at least 140,000 visitors annually.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt has been the topic of debate<\/a> since it was initially proposed because its development could help revitalize the region economically and culturally, but stands to cause a tremendous amount of damage to the protected natural area in the process. With increase tourism, however, comes potential new infrastructure that could derail the biosphere reserve\u2019s protected status and stands to completely disrupt the reserve\u2019s ecosystem, which is home to a plethora of wildlife including migratory birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands launched a campaign to protect the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve from an extension of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,54899,104,54900],"class_list":{"0":"post-123511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-guggenheim-bilbao","11":"tag-spain","12":"tag-urdaibai-biosphere-reserve"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114553533757340890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}