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This Wednesday, 9 November at 20.00 hours, Pau Enric Serra will give a talk on the pollinator crisis at the GOB headquarters in Maó (Cami des Castell, 53). Pollinators are the key to ecosystems and crop productivity. Continue reading The crisis of pollinators – talk at GOB
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More than a quarter of the special diving area of the Marine Reserve off the Illa de l’Aire has been left unprotected, despite a positive response claiming that a protection regime was applied. GOB has asked to be able to see reports justifying the lack of protection. Continue reading A step back in the protection of the Menorcan sea
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The problem of the depletion of the aquifers and the abuse of water management will be the central theme for the next excursion of the programme in the cycle of “La Menorca in-SOS-tenible”. (Unsustainable Menorca.) Continue reading Sunday 23 October: come and walk in support of good water management
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In Menorca there is a project to double the sea area for doubling the Addaia sport Marina. There is also a plan to build dry marinas, for boats, in Cala Molí, Cala en Busquets, and Ciutadella. It is also planned to fill up the Cala Figuera area in Maó with boats. Continue reading First walk “in-SOS-tenible” (unsustainable) against nautical overcrowding
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At Es Viver, GOB’s ecological plant nursery, organic seedlings of various varieties are now available for the kitchen garden. Thursday was the start of Sant Miquel a Nadal according to the way the year is divided in the Menorcan countryside. It is the season for winter planting of the kitchen garden. Continue reading Ecological seedlings from Menorca
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The first of the excursions for the campaign “la Menorca in-SOS-tenible” (unsustainable Menorca) will start and will show the main problems of unsustainability found in Menorca. Continue reading 25 September, excursion “in-SOS-tenible” (unsustainable) against nautical overcrowding
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The case of the winery to be built on the Torralba site of Ciutadella, has become famous for proposing the construction of eight new buildings in order to service the winery. Continue reading A winery, six buildings, a thousand meters of wall
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Until now, Menorca has been free of overcrowding. So, what has happened lately to cause many visitors to say that the island is no longer as it was and that there are many Menorcans who see the Menorca they love slipping away from them? Continue reading Overcrowding by tourists can be controlled by accommodation capacity
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The Land Stewardship Scheme continues to add farms that wish to make a change in the productivity model. This summer Ses Roques Llises, a kitchen garden rural property in the Ferreries municipality has entered to form part of the programme. Continue reading A kitchen garden with pollinators enters the Land Stewardship Scheme
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It seems that any effective surveillance on fishing has produced few results in Menorca. As in each year, GOB has asked for the disciplinary proceedings on file for 2021 and we have found a picture similar to the three previous years with only 14 proceedings on file open. Continue reading Three years running with few fishing records
