Tag Archives: Marine ecology

Learning to Protect the Sea Through Observation

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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.

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Thursday 18, narrative photography talk at the Port of Maó

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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.

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Narrative photography contest on 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.

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Lack of control in the dredging of the Port of Ciutadella

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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.

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The Port of Maó’s zoning, key to organising its uses

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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.

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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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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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Addaia marina: the expiry that never comes

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In the Addaia area, bordering the Natural Park and the Natura 2000 zones, an expansion of the existing marina was planned long ago. The project practically foresaw doubling the installations area (see attached image).

The environmental impact assessment received a favourable report in 2015, ten years ago. The GOB has been submitting allegations and appeals at every stage of the process during this period.

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