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Water Woes in Doñana National Park

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Change is at the heart of Doñana National Park in southwestern Spain. Within its boundaries, thousands of small, shallow ponds fed by groundwater undergo natural cycles of flooding and drought. Known as Mediterranean temporary ponds, the habitat contains plants and animals that are specially adapted to the intermittent availability of water. Doñana’s marshes, wetlands, and dunes provide habitat for hundreds of bird species, along with rare animals such as the Spanish imperial eagle and the endangered Iberian lynx.
Over the past several decades, however, a more insidious kind of change has been altering the landscape at Doñana. The same groundwater that drives the wetland’s flooding cycles is also accessible for uses outside of the national park. The footprint of the aquifer feeding the ponds is about five times that of the protected area. Agriculture and tourism beyond the park’s borders have increasingly taxed that water supply.
A recent study used over three decades of satellite data to understand how human demands on the aquifer have affected the ponds. The map above highlights where ponds now flood more or less than can be explained by climate.