Doñana National Park's unique ecosystem is shrinking

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"We see it in the continuous decline in groundwater levels, the decline in the number of species, the decline in bird populations."  It's one of Europe's largest wetlands. And it's drying up.

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00:00Before we get started, we'd like to give a shout out to our patrons!

00:30We see it in the continuous decline of the groundwater levels, in the decline in the

00:48number of species, the decline of endangered bird populations.

01:17China is threatened, threatened by 3,000 hectares of illegal farms that overexploit

01:23the aquifer through more than 1,000 illegal boreholes.

01:28The problem is that when they flood, there are years when it lasts so little that it does

01:41not last long enough for most of the species to reproduce.

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