Contact Seprona, the Guardia Civil’s nature protection service, and/or the threatened species recovery centre nearest to you for advice. The easiest option is to call 112 and explain what you have found. They can arrange the help needed and explain how to keep the animal safe until assistance arrives.
Information from the Andalusian regional government’s website:
Finding information about wildlife:
- Andalusian Biodiversity Information System: Allows searches by common or scientific name. It includes a visual library of notable organisms, which at the time of this article contained around 7,500 image files.
- Red Data Book of Threatened Vertebrates in Andalusia.
- Red Data Book of Threatened Invertebrates in Andalusia.
These books provide images and information about wildlife species, their identification, distribution, biology, threats and active or passive management measures.
You can also consult the Andalusian Catalogue of Threatened Species, established in Annex X of Decree 23/2012 of 14 February on the conservation and sustainable use of wild flora, fauna and their habitats.
What do the recovery centres do?
Threatened Species Recovery Centres (CREAs) receive wild animals that are injured, ill or weak and have already been captured.
The Andalusian network of Threatened Species Recovery Centres can be consulted on the regional ministry’s website.
