BIO
Silvia García’s career in television spans 35 years, starting with public broadcaster TVE. It was there that she founded La 2 Noticias in 1994, together with Lorenzo Milá and Fran Llorente, with the remit, then without precedent in the Spanish TV landscape, of bringing environmental coverage to a daily news program. In August 1998, she was hired as an environmental reporter at Antena 3 Noticias, and has worked to keep nature at the forefront of this news program, most recently in a weekend broadcast that reached an audience of 1.6 million viewers.
In the course of her career, she has covered world climate summits – Kyoto, Copenhagen and Madrid – in the conviction that “climate change is a determining factor for biodiversity,” as well as what she describes as “human and environmental disasters”: Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua and Honduras, the earthquake in Haiti, and the tsunami that affected the Fukushima nuclear power plant. In Spain, she reported on the Prestige disaster and 2006 fires, both in Galicia, and the Aznalcóllar mine spill in Andalusia.
In addition to these headline stories, she has reported on biodiversity and initiatives for its conservation, including a series on the Galapagos Islands and another on the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. At home, she has fronted stories on topics like the captive breeding of the lynx or the recovery of the bearded and cinereous vultures. And she has also specialized in energy news items, with reports on underground nuclear waste cemeteries in Finland and Sweden, a solar farm in Mexico or an offshore wind farm in the Baltic.