Doñana wetlands
Huelva, Spain · 37.00°, -6.40° · Wetland loss
Europe's most important wetland for migratory birds is drying as strawberry farms pump its aquifer, many of them from illegal wells.
Doñana National Park shelters millions of migrating birds and the Iberian lynx on the Guadalquivir delta. Around it, greenhouses growing strawberries and other berries for export draw heavily on the shared aquifer, and thousands of wells are unlicensed. Its lagoons have dried in recent summers, and the EU Court of Justice ruled in 2021 that Spain had failed to protect it.
In the game
Doñana wetlands flares up as Polluted water. The fix is a gesture: drag through the floating waste to sweep it up. Done right, it becomes Water cleaned ♻️. Finish all three steps of its chain in one round for a combo, or take your time in Explore mode: a place you fully restore stays green on your map for good.
🧭 Fly there and restore it▶ Play a 60-second round