Overview
- Influencer Alfonso Santaella, known as Alfon.what and followed by roughly a million users across platforms, was identified through videos recorded in especially sensitive areas of the Sierra de Gredos.
- The Guardia Civil opened six administrative cases detailing alleged breaches observed in the posted footage.
- An investigative unit at the Barco de Ávila post drafted the complaints, which the Junta de Castilla y León is now handling as sanction proposals.
- Reported practices include unauthorized drone flights in high-sensitivity zones, camping without permits in protected areas, and bathing in glacial lagoons after breaking surface ice.
- Authorities warn these actions can disrupt reproductive cycles and degrade fragile habitats that support species such as the golden eagle, griffon vulture, and Iberian ibex.