Five siblings jailed for illegally extracting water feeding Spanish nature reserve

Farmers found guilty of crimes against environment for tapping aqueduct feeding Unesco-listed Donana national park

Five siblings have been jailed for more than three years for illegally extracting water from an aqueduct feeding a Unesco-listed Spanish nature reserve that is threatened by desertification, a court ruling showed.

The farmers - four men and a woman - were found guilty of crimes against the environment and causing damage through the systematic and extensive extraction" of water supplying Donana national park, according to the ruling dated 18 September that was seen by Agence France-Presse on Friday.