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Pili Pala Press donates money to Prestige clean up Pili Pala Press has just donated €1100 to SEO/BirdLife, a Spanish organization heavily involved in oil clean-up operations following the Prestige oil disaster. The money represents 4% of the cover price of every Pili Pala Press book sold in 2003. Each year, Pili Pala Press donates money to environmental causes in Spain and Portugal. Sales in 2002 went to SEO/BirdLife; sales in 2000 and 2001 went to help efforts to protect the endangered Iberian Lynx.

Happy Año Xacobeo On January 1, the Holy Door at the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela was opened, marking the start of the 2004 Holy Year. Holy Years occur when the Día de Santiago (Day of St James), July 25, falls on a Sunday. The last Holy Year was a specially-declared one in 2000; the next will be in 2010.

St-Jean-Pied-de-Port (page 42) A new albergue, L'Esprit du Chemin, opened in St-Jean-Pied-de-Port in July 2003, opposite the Pilgrims Information Centre at 39 rue de la Citadelle. L'Esprit du Chemin is open from April 1 to the end of September. It has 18 beds, no kitchen but offers a good, reasonably priced menú del peregrino each night.

Pili Pala Press donates money to Prestige clean-up Pili Pala Press has just donated more than €200 to SEO/BirdLife, a Spanish organization heavily involved in oil clean-up operations following the Prestige oil disaster. The money represents 4% of the cover price of every Pili Pala Press book sold in 2002. Each year, Pili Pala Press donates money to environmental causes in Spain and Portugal. Sales in 2000 and 2001 went to help efforts to protect the endangered Iberian Lynx.

Oil slick: the aftermath The total number of oiled birds recovered from beaches in Spain, France and Portugal between 16th November 2002 and 16th January 2003 was 13,221 (3,873 live and 9,348 dead) belonging to 62 species. SEO/BirdLife predicts that the Guillemot will probably be lost as a breeding bird in Spain as a result of the spill.

Oil slick More than 80 kilometres of the Galician coastline, in northwest Spain, have been polluted by oil from the tanker Prestige, which sunk off the coast of Spain in mid-November.

SOS Lynx The Iberian Lynx is the most endangered wild cat in the world, with only 200 animals left in Spain and Portugal. Pili Pala Press donated 50p from the sales of Walking in Portugal in 2001 to this important cause. Visit www.soslynx.org for more information on how you can help save these beautiful animals from extinction.

WWF Lynx campaign Pili Pala Press donates 50p from each book sold to environmental organizations. In 2000, this money went to the World Wildlife Fund's Campaign for Europe's Carnivores.