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We live in strange times. People rent lounge chairs on the beach to avoid touching the sand. But when the beach ends up looking like a hard surface without sand, as it has this year at Sant Tomàs, no one wants to rent chairs. Then, the City Council considers moving them to Binigaus, a pristine beach where there are still sandy areas, with the goal that people can rent the chairs and thus not touch the sand. That’s the way the world is.
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With the arrival of warm weather, as every season, GOB Menorca launches a new t-shirt in the “la Menorca que estimam” (the Menorca we love) series. This year’s design features artwork by painter, sculptor, and engraver Maties Sansaloni (@sansalonicoll), depicting an artistic recreation of a socarrell (Launaea cervicornis).
Continue reading The ‘socarrell’ on the new GOB Menorca t-shirt
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Under the slogan “Change course: set limits on tourism,” the four Balearic islands are jointly working on a schedule of mobilizations and demands.
As a result of the public protests that have taken place in the archipelago, some coordination has been called for to deal with the multiple social, labour and ecological aspects of the all-consuming tourism expanding into every corner of these islands.
Continue reading The Balearic Islands coordinate to change the current tourism model
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The project promotes school participation in microplastic research along the Menorcan coastline
The 2023-2024 school year marks the fourth consecutive year of the “Observadors del Mar” [Sea Observers] project, coordinated by the Environmental Education and Marine Environment areas of GOB Menorca. This initiative focuses on sampling and analyzing beach sand to detect the presence of meso and microplastics, complementing these activities with educational content about coastal ecosystems.
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The recent controversy over the parking area next to the Cala en Porter torrent is a case where the administrations are acting against current legislation. The GOB has approached various public institutions to request their intervention.
Continue reading Cala en Porter: Facilitating parking in a prohibited area
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(translated from original article published 11 June)
The controversial text published recently by the Balearic Government that modified more than 50 rules, implies serious consequences in terms of the guarantees for protection of natural resources and the land; and makes a substantial effect to the existing regulatory framework, caused by a totally undemocratic measure such as a decree-law. A decree-law that does not allow in any way the urgency to go beyond social and political debate of unprecedented changes to the regulatory framework.
Continue reading GOB asks Pedro Sánchez to suspend the Omnibus Decree-Law
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Last Saturday, the 8th, the Biosphere Square in Maó, where the headquarters of the Island Council is located, was filled with an outcry against the growing tourist overcrowding of the island.
It is highly recommended to read the demands that were raised in the manifesto, because they argue the reasons for the mobilization and go in step with the usual textbook criticism made about these acts.
Continue reading Read the manifesto against the overcrowding of tourism in Menorca
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The new legislative text published on 28 May by the Balearic Government modified more than 50 regulations with grave consequences for environmental values. It is a new reason for the protest rally on Saturday 8 June at 19.30 in the Plaza Biosfera de Maó.
Continue reading A Decree Law at the service of the predatory agents of the land
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There is a new chapter to the case of the Torre Vella illegal swimming pools. The ombudsman has issued a legal report where it makes a recommendation to the Menorcan Consortium of Urban Discipline that it should recognise GOB as an interested party in files processed by this department.
Continue reading The Ombudsman endorses GOB’s access to urban planning reports
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16 environmental organisations that are active in the Balearics have asked the Government of the Balearic Islands to maintain the Balearic Commission of the Environment in response to its announcement that this public department of environmental control would be closed down.
