Tag Archives: Ecology

Excursion on territorial aggressions. Saturday 29

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This coming Saturday begins Via Menorca’s programme of excursions to learn about those emblematic aggressions that have been carried out on the island. It will be a walk that combines landscape, campaign activities and information on the damage that has taken place recently.

With little difficulty (only two climbs on the Camí de Cavalls), it will start at 10 a.m. and finish around 1:30 p.m. To organise logistics properly, you must register through this form. When signing up, you will find the rest of the details.

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Cristòfol Mascaró Sintes, Pere Prats Environmental Award 2025

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Cristòfol Mascaró Sintes has been unanimously chosen by the Board of Directors of GOB Menorca as the winner of the Pere Prats Environmental Award 2025, posthumously.

With this recognition, GOB Menorca wishes to acknowledge and make visible the work of a biologist considered one of Menorca’s best botanists in recent decades. Tòfol Mascaró was an expert on Menorca’s biodiversity and its conservation, as well as a great connoisseur and promoter of the island’s natural heritage, with remarkable teaching skills.

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The Rural Land Consortium and the pending information

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GOB is an organisation that receives many citizen reports related to environmental issues. The association’s 48 years of continuous work help explain why many people prefer to speak with GOB rather than with the public administration.

When these reports refer to environmental alterations or damage, the facts are verified and detailed information is sent to the competent administration. The level of activity varies depending on what is happening in the territory. When there are major operations in forest areas, many reports are received on that matter. When there is no surveillance of fishing, reports come in about illegal fishing, and so on.

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Gratitude and recognition for Cala en Busquets

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The organisations promoting the Platform in Defence of Cala en Busquets wish to express our gratitude for the support received in recent weeks, both from individuals and from other organisations that have encouraged us to raise our voices publicly against the dry marina project.

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A dangerous agrarian law for farmers

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The draft Agrarian Law recently published by the Balearic Government could turn against farmers. Promoting economic activities that displace agriculture or removing environmental safeguards that protect soil fertility is not helping farmers—it is using them as an excuse to legislate in favour of other sectors. GOB has submitted objections.

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Constitutional challenge against the “Strategic Residential Projects Law”

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Social and environmental organizations in the Balearic Islands have publicly announced the filing of a constitutional appeal before the Spanish Constitutional Court against the Balearic law regulating so-called strategic residential projects.

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Manifesto for the defence of Cala en Busquets

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Several civic organisations have analysed the dry marina project promoted by Ports de les Illes Balears at Cala en Busquets and have agreed to work together to try to stop the initiative.

The planned intervention in this cove of Ciutadella’s port aims to install a dry marina with capacity for 120 boats, as well as to build a large concrete esplanade and a vertical wall. This would have a major landscape impact and would further increase the nautical pressure on the port.

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Forest water

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The holm oak forest is one of the jewels of Menorca’s woodlands, a space that generates magical landscapes. But the experience each person has when visiting one of these places can be very different. Those who are used to mushroom picking know that this is where some of the earliest mushrooms of autumn grow. Hunters will think of it as the place to hunt woodcocks. Others may see it as cubic metres of quality firewood.

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The regenerative aquaculture as a marine resilience strategy

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The general interest of the population towards the sea is growing considerably year after year. Therefore, the activities carried out there have multiplied. Thus, the anthropic pressure and threats affecting the habitats of the seabed have also increased, with a significant impact on the coastline.

Specifically, in the port of Maó, the phenomenon of commercial boating has skyrocketed, with constant expansions of facilities that end up being occupied at speculative prices. It is a growing market, but one that corresponds to a seasonal operation, which ends up displacing local boats of a more social kind, transforms spaces with natural values within the port, and which, for years now, has exceeded the island’s nautical carrying capacity.

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