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Xàbia plans to have the concession of the Cap de Sant Antoni lighthouse in June Xàbia hopes that the concession of the Cap de Sant Antoni lighthouse will be ready next June. The goal is to obtain a license for the lighthouse to be managed by the Xàbia Town Hall and turn it into a visitor’s centre about the marine reserve. The model they plan to follow is that of the Albir lighthouse, though details of the project are yet to be defined as well as the cost of conversion. From: Las Provincias SEO/Birdlife volunteers embark on annual bird count Spanish ornithological association SEO/Birdlife mobilied more than 1,000 volunteers in April to help count bird populations across Spain, part of the annual drive to update European censuses and monitor changes in natural habitat in the struggle to halt declining bird populations across Europe. The volunteers will be participating in both the Common Bird Monitoring program, known by its Spanish acronym as SACRE, and the NOCTUA program to provide data for estimating the current population of nocturnal birds across Spain. From mid-April, the annual bird count will be conducted by volunteers in both rural and urban areas nationwide and this year SEO/Birdlife is particularly interested in monitoring bird populations in areas where data collection has been scant in recent years, particularly in Castilla- La Mancha, La Rioja, Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands and Galicia. For full story see: Progressive Spain.