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Cotton spraying in La Janda, Cadiz province, Andalucia, Spain.
La Janda was a huge lake and wetland site that was drained in the 1960's and tuned into a vast agricultural area. The '60's was a period where DDT was used indiscriminately, primarily to kill insects but more or less wiped out much of the breeding birds food. The effect on lots of wildlife is pretty well documented and birds of prey breeding suffered greatly with numbers crashing. This was aided and abetted by a bounty paid for any bird of prey that were killed and brought in to certain farms that gained an immense wealth from the new industrial agriculture systems in and around La Janda, with well organised electric supplies irrigation, sluices and raised tracks. The bounty for birds of prey didn't end until the early 1970's.
Not only was La Janda a natural breeding ground for many hundreds of bird species but it was the major stopping off point for migratory birds between Europe and Africa.
This photo was taken in 2008 of a Boeing Stearman spraying a field of modified 'thornless' cotton. I had to get back into my car rather sharpish!
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