Tag: green spaces

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 23:15 UTC

  Madrid appeals to sheep to look after the city's main green spaces

  

  It's a rustic scene: sheep graze placidly on grass as a shepherd keeps watch. But this is Madrid's largest public park, not the tranquil countryside. Madrid city hall has since February employed 500 sheep to munch undergrowth at the Casa de Campo, a former royal hunting ground with pines and scrubland stretching over 1,722 hectares - an area about five times the size of New York's Central Park.