Bullfighting: Spain's latest casualty?

Spain's lockdown could spell the end of one of the country's most controversial traditions.

Bullfighting has struggled for survival in recent decades.

And with major festivals canceled, bulls have been sent from ranches straight to the slaughterhouse.

Victorino Martin is a breeder.

''The worst-case scenario for us would be not to have bullfights for the whole year. That would be dramatic. Just imagine. We already haven't had any income because of the winter stoppage, imagine one more year like this."

Although Spain has started to ease its lockdown, it is not clear if any corridas - or bullfights - will take place before the end of the season in October.

Threatening thousands of jobs from Matadors to ranch hands.

But it's welcome news for animal right activists like Aida Gascon.

"It has been good news, one of the few good news brought by this pandemic, this crisis. We see it as positive news not only because of all the bulls that are not going to be tortured to death, although we know they are going to die anyway as they will be sent to the slaughterhouse since the breeders cannot take care of the high cost of keeping them, but at least those animals are not going to be tortured and nobody is going to benefit from that torture show."

The Union of Breeders estimates the industry's losses could exceed 77 million euros if the season is written off.