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As part of the Recuperem el Port de Maó campaign, we are pleased to invite everyone to take part in the extensive programme of activities we have organised for this summer and autumn.
One of the first proposals is a boat trip around the bay, an opportunity to enjoy the harbour from the sea and discover it from a different perspective, guided by people who will show us values that you may not yet know.
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The ‘Recuperem el Port de Maó’ (“Let’s Restore the Port of Maó”) campaign has organised a wide-ranging programme of activities that will continue throughout summer and autumn, with the aim of showcasing the natural, heritage, cultural and social values of the Port of Maó, as well as raising public awareness about the pressures that threaten this unique space.
The programme combines outreach, culture, citizen participation and photography, with proposals designed to help residents rediscover the port, engage with it and strengthen their connection to it. Talks, guided routes, boat trips, workshops, glosat performances, music and exhibitions make up a diverse offer that invites people to view the bay from new perspectives and to highlight its heritage.
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GOB Menorca, with the support of Menorca Preservation and Fundació Marilles, continues to promote the educational project “Observar per estimar” (“Observing to Care”), an initiative that invites children and young people on the island to discover the marine environment through curiosity, respect and mindful observation.
After the positive reception of the first edition, the workshops return this year with new sessions and the expectation of reaching more educational centres and participants across Menorca.
Continue reading Learning to Protect the Sea Through Observation
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Images can go beyond aesthetics and become a tool to observe, denounce, move emotions and tell stories.
This coming Thursday, the 18th, at the Port Center of Maó – Cruise Terminal, at 7.30 pm, a talk will be given by Carlos Permuy, a photographer specialised in documentary photography and visual narrative.
Continue reading Thursday 18, narrative photography talk at the Port of Maó
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The Recuperem el Port de Maó campaign has launched a narrative photography contest with the aim of giving visibility to the environmental, social and heritage pressures that threaten the values still preserved in the natural harbour of Port of Maó.
The initiative has the collaboration of the Balearic Sea Conservation Audiovisual Contest MARE, and invites the public to look at the port with critical and sensitive eyes and to explain, through photography, the processes of transformation and deterioration affecting the bay. The contest does not seek only aesthetic images, but photographs capable of narrating a reality and generating reflection.
Continue reading Narrative photography contest on the Port of Maó
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Ports de the Balearic Islands has carried out dredging in the inner area of the port without measures to prevent the dispersion of silt in the water. GOB wants to know which environmental precautions have been taken to ensure that no further contamination occurs and where the extracted sediments will end up.
Port sediments are likely to be contaminated. These are areas of intensive use, where paints, fuel oils, and various discharges often end up being deposited on the seabed.
Continue reading Lack of control in the dredging of the Port of Ciutadella
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Last year, two significant episodes of light pollution were recorded in natural areas. The GOB has been engaging with the relevant authorities for months to prevent the situation from repeating this summer. So far, however, institutions continue to shift responsibility among themselves.
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The Balearic Ports Authority is promoting a new regulation to govern coexistence within the port service area of the Port of Maó. Among the activities it seeks to restrict are swimming in non-marked areas, placing chairs, camping with motorhomes, or eating and drinking inside a vehicle, a practice interpreted by the text as camping. The GOB has submitted a letter requesting a reconsideration of the current zoning.
Continue reading The Port of Maó’s zoning, key to organising its uses
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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.
Continue reading Gratitude and recognition for Cala en Busquets
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These weeks, the shearwaters are returning to Menorca —a bird closely linked to the sea. Of the two species we have, the smaller one breeds only on these islands. They behave like some Menorcans who, at the end of June, stop going to the beach and return well into October.
