"the Canary Islands" in Spanish

A number of ziphii have died this summer in the Canary Islands, clearly due to the effects of sonar.

University of La Laguna, La Laguna de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

To exclude Cape Verde would be to overlook its strong ties with Europe and its common border with the EU via the Canary Islands.

We recall, for example, the recent proposal to ban deep-water trawling off the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands, a position that we advocated in Parliament.

I must emphasise once again that coral reefs are not located exclusively within a 200-mile radius from the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores.

I must emphasise once again that coral reefs are not located exclusively within a 200-mile radius from the CanaryIslands, Madeira and the Azores.

I am referring to the Canary Islands.

University of La Laguna, La Laguna de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

In short, without such measures, the Canary Islands' fishing industry, which is increasingly a minority interest as it is, would end up by disappearing altogether.

In short, without such measures, the Canary Islands ' fishing industry, which is increasingly a minority interest as it is, would end up by disappearing altogether.

Recently, Nature magazine published an article on the subject which made a reference to 14 whales that beached in the Canary Islands last year in September, all of which died.

Last April, the Government and the Ministry of Defence signed a cooperation agreement to prevent the mass beaching of ziphii which is taking place in the Canary Islands area.

There is a fifteenth-century Royal Charter by the Catholic Monarchs exempting traders in the Canary Islands from paying a number of taxes, and this has continued over the centuries.

Mr Brittan, I am addressing you directly because if you read our motion for a resolution you will see that it relates to the serious damage that has been caused to agriculture in the Canary Islands.