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One of Europe's largest wetlands, located in southern Spain's Doñana National Park, faces a troubled future due to intensive farming.

Once teeming with flamingos and flocks of migrating birds, water levels in the park have been plummeting due to climate change, overextraction by neighbouring strawberry farms, and digging of illegal wells.

To compound the issue, Andalucia's regional government's proposing an expansion of irrigation rights for farmers.

The wetland's already threatened, illustrates Juan Romero of Save Doñana.

Located in the Huelva province, the park sits alongside a farming industry which supplies the vast majority of Spain's strawberries.

Dubbed 'red gold' since 100,000 people depend on them for employment, the fruit's spawned a conflict between environmentalists, politicians and farmers.

The Andalucian proposal's also met with backlash from the EU, UN and European grocery giants.

The question of extracting groundwater comes down to a simple equation in the view of Juanjo Carmona from the World Wildlife Fund.

The ruling parties in Andalucia, the conservative Popular Party and populist, far right party VOX, refuse to admit there's an issue, as VOX president Rafael Segovia states.

With international supermarket chains already voicing their concerns to the Andalucian government, there's anxiety amongst farmers.

Without a sustainable resolution to the dispute, they will bear the adverse impact of any supermarket boycott.

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