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While in the Arctic temperature records continue to be broken, other conservation issues both locally and internationally, are looking a little brighter. Continue reading Clean Up and Get Paid!
Gas first for power stations
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The project to bring natural gas to Menorca is not, in the end, acceptable for the public. The potential saving of lower emissions is very insignificant and would not compensate for the amount of construction work required. Continue reading Gas first for power stations
November synopsis
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There have not been many postings this month, due to holidays. Here is a synopsis of some activities:
Premi Pere Prats awarded on 19 November
GOB elected, unanimously, Antoni Carreras, to receive the Pere Prats Prize for initiating projects which combine social employment and the environment. Working with Caritas and during the economic crisis he recognised the importance of recycling clothes and goods at Mestral. He promoted the Algendar Tree project, creating work by the conservation, for example, of its ethnological walls, irrigation channels and agricultural structures in this special farming area, and also by the reintroduction and sale of Menorcan fruit trees boosting commercial ecological cultivation. Continue reading November synopsis
Sunday 27 November, excursion on the stone slingers at Trepucó
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The Consell Insular and GOB have organised an excursion by foot for Sunday 27 November. It will be along old paths to the Trepucó settlement, where excavations during recent years in new areas have shown various prehistoric sites of war confrontations. Continue reading Sunday 27 November, excursion on the stone slingers at Trepucó
The long distance race
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If you want to travel quickly, go it alone. If you want to travel far, you are better off accompanied. A well known adage applicable to everyday life, especially so for those who want to do something to change the world for the better. Continue reading The long distance race
Last day to register for a course “Autumn in Menorca”
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This week, a course will start combining talks and excursions on Autumn in Menorca and will deal with geology, flowers, mushrooms and wild animals. There are still one or two places available. Continue reading Last day to register for a course “Autumn in Menorca”
New renovation work starts on a water cistern
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On Sunday 10 October, a group of GOB volunteers were working to restore a water cistern which catches rain water in Torralbet. This is one of the farms forming part of a network each of which has signed up to the Land Stewardship Scheme. Continue reading New renovation work starts on a water cistern
Sunday 23 October, excursion to the necropolis of Cala Morell
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The Island Council and GOB are organising an excursion by foot for Sunday 23 October. It will be to visit the necropolis of Cala Morell, where it is possible to see the excavation of a set of 14 burial caves. Continue reading Sunday 23 October, excursion to the necropolis of Cala Morell
Another falcon with shotgun wounds taken into the Wild Life Hospital
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GOB has made a formal complaint to SEPRONA (Guardia Civil Police) and the Environmental Agencies of a new case of a falcon wounded by a shotgun and which has recently been taken into the Wild Life Recuperation Centre. It is the fourth one in the last few years brought in for this reason. This year it is the second case of a protected species coming as a result of impacted pellets. Continue reading Another falcon with shotgun wounds taken into the Wild Life Hospital
Evidence in the mud from the sewage plant
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The building of a new sewage plant in Ferreries, to replace the anaerobic lagoon that has worked until now, has exposed a problem which has been building up for many years. Sludge from the old installation was full of heavy metal making a dangerously toxic residue. The current situation has had a long and non-restrictive history. Continue reading Evidence in the mud from the sewage plant