Migrant beekeepers, environmental educators with birds of prey and game taxidermists

Justo

has a Bengal owl and an owl attached to his right arm;

, an eagle owl, and

, a Harris's eagle, all birds of prey.

They are at the gates of the Madrid City Hall, in Plaza de Cibeles, while the tide of orange vests passes.

There go the farmers, the ranchers, the hunters, many many hunters, there must not be any operational shotgun in Spain this Sunday.

The

demonstration has mobilized even the most remote corner of the rural world, so that professions are present that the reader probably did not even know existed.

Justo is dedicated to teaching environmental education classes in schools, institutes and universities above all and goes to the classrooms with his

.

He is here to protest against the Animal Welfare Law, which, looking for what is best for his birds, will prevent him from taking them to his talks.

"Look at the mess here, do you see them stressed?", Justo says while the bells ring around him, the conch shells with which the hunters call the dogs and even some firecrackers.

"Do you think that in a children's classroom the animals would be stressed? If we go without them we don't reach the children's hearts, with them a brutal empathy is created".

A few meters further on we find

, 36, and

, 40, who come from

(Cáceres).

The first wears the typical white suit with a mesh on his face with which the hives are handled;

the second is disguised as a bee.

It goes without saying that they are beekeepers, but their peculiarity is that they are transhumant beekeepers.

The two hold a banner on which a photo of a truck loaded with beehives is printed and that is how they operate.

"As was done before with cattle, we move looking for flowering, we move to any point in Spain looking for spring. As soon as we are in

as in the

or in

," they say.

There is no space to collect all the evils that lie in wait for your business, but there is the first one they mention: "The price of diesel is unbearable."

Juan José Garoz

has become very visible in the demonstration, because he has come with a van to which he has hooked a trailer, and, on top of it, he carries the sculpture of a giant boar.

He is a taxidermist of game pieces, a job that he inherited from his father,

, who received many awards at hunting fairs.

His employment therefore depends on his hunting.

"If they look for another job for me, I'll change," he says, shrugging his shoulders.

The family has a museum, where they exhibit their best pieces, in

(Toledo).

The taxidermist's wild boar soon ceases to be visible because people climb on it to get a better perspective and among those at the top, inaccessible, they say that there is a very famous man from Extremadura, because he is an ax in

;

which consists of putting them in the burrows to scare away the rabbits.

The story of the

-one million followers on Facebook- is told in another piece but it is worth mentioning here what he does: "I capture animals on the farms where they are doing damage and I take them to the farms where they do missing: rabbits, wild boars, hares, turtledoves, pigeons...", he explains.

Samuel Prieto

grows cereals, sunflowers and vegetables in

(Guadalajara) and is "a farmer, hunter and bullfighter, the public enemy who must be buried", according to his own definition.

He attracts attention because he pushes a shopping cart where, in addition to the fridge with very cold beers, he carries rolled-up pieces of artificial grass and empty herbicide cans on which he has written the price in marker: 20 euros on the small;

400 which looks like ten liters.

"The price of the herbicide has gone

in just one month," he says.

The Cantabrians

(43 years old) and

(45) carry what are probably the largest cowbells in the demonstration, no less than half a meter.

They are dedicated to raising cows for meat and hunting and among their first ruin they mention the wolf, from whose attacks they cannot defend themselves because it is a protected species.

“This one,” says César, pointing to Alfredo, “the wolf has already killed nine foals this year.

José Martínez

, a 63-year-old farmer from Jaén, watches the parade from the steps of the Town Hall.

He already has callus in other manifestations, but this one has him really surprised.

"What an outrage, what an outrage! He had never seen so many people."

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