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ENERGY

TOURISM

NATURAL AREAS

  SPECIES AND HABITATS

URBANISM

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

TRANSPORT

WATER

 WASTE

  CONSUME


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TOURISM

eco-tax : Costing the Earth, BBC Radio 4
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- Sol Melia Project revoked in Mexico (30/4/2001)

- Ecotax, the tax for disagreement (11/4/2001)

- The GOB demands a reform to the General Law for Tourism (22/12/2000)

- The ecotax and natural parks - centre of the political and social debate (26/5/2000)

- The GOB: the Balearic Government is delaying too long the start of the eco-tax (13/4/2000)

- Ecotax: yes or no? (9/2/2000)

- The GOB encourages the Govern to put a brake on the new tourist boom (7/2/2000)




ENERGY

- The GOB against the presence of the Enterprise (11/5/2001)

- Governments recognize stunning scale of climate change impacts (20/2/2001)

- Christmas lighting and responsible consumption (11/1/2001)

-The GOB proposes that the arrival point for the gas pipe line should be the Dique del Oeste (12/12/2000)

- George Washington and Tireless: the nuclear problem (7/12/2000)

- GOB presented the allegations against the Energy Plan (28/11/2000)

- GESA wants to build a new power station at Son Reus (14/11/2000)

- The GOB requests the removal of the Energy Plan and criticises the installation of desalination plants (7/11/2000)


-The Energy Plan will allow the continuing present urban model (26/10/2000)

- Presentation of the Energy Plan for the Balearics (19/7/2000)




NATURAL AREAS

- S'Albufereta declared Natural Reserve (20/10/2001)

- GOB against a sculptor park in the protected area of Mondragó (20/7/2001)

- The Platform Pro-Parc de Llevant on Internet (19/5/2001)


- Advance of the Plan for Administration of Natural Resources (PORN) for the Península de Llevant (12/5/2001)

- Cabrera, 10 years as a Park (26/4/2001)

- "Cabrera, a vital decade" at the Casal Solleric (27/4/2001)

- S'Albufereta: Natural Reserve (8/3/2001)


- Opening of a road in the ANEI of Son Real (22/2/2001)

- World Wetlands Day (30/1/2001)


- Leisure and conservation on the Serra de Tramuntana (15/11/2000)


- The exhibition of the Serra de Tramuntana, at Costa Nord (27/10/2000)

- The ecotax and natural parks - centre of the political and social debate (26/5/2000)

- GOB: Park Platform and Pamphlets in favour of the Arta Park (23/5/2000)

-The GOB denounces the double language by Matas and the PP relating to the parks (16/5/2000)

- Presentation of the CD "L'entorn natural - Homenatge a la Trapa" (12/3/2000)

- Serra de Tramuntana: the debate continues (10/3/2000)

- The "Serra de Tramuntana" debated (27/2/2000)

- The GOB denounce the uncontrolled circulation of vehicles in Cala Agulla (19/1/2000)



SPECIES AND HABITATS

- The importance of the fields of posidonia (29/8/2002)

- 12,000 water birds hibernate in s'Albufera (23/1/2002)

- Extinction of the Black Kite on Mallorca (14/6/2001)

- The Royal Kite, more closely watched than ever (23/8/2000)

- The GOB denounces the situation of the Safari-Zoo of Sa Coma (12/9/2000)

- The Red Kite, a bird on the point of extinction in Mallorca (7/7/2000)

- The Black Vulture: a jewel on Mallorca (3/3/2000)


URBANISM


- Mallorca is still growing at an alarming rate (2/4/2003)

- The massive urban growth does not stop (31/5/2001)

- The GOB request the extension to the Law of natural spaces (30/5/2001)

- Plataform in defence of the Colónia de Sant Jordi (15/5/2001)

-The GOB gives president Antich an hour clock (29/3/2001)

-The chaos of the territorial planning (13/3/2001)


- Mallorca advances towards the environmental and urban collapse (20/2/2001)

- Palma will double its population in 18 years (16/1/2001)

- El ParcBIT: a barbarity on rustic land (28/10/2000)

- "Mallorca at its limit. It's time to stop!" at the Municipal Theatre in Manacor (4/10/2000)

- Campaign by the GOB in favour of a building and tourist moratorium (27/6/2000)

- The GOB demands the stop to rampant urbanisation (19/4/2000)

- Tuent, the great topic pending in the protection of Mallorca (9/3/2000)

- The GOB requests a new territorial model (22/2/2000)

- Chalets and apartaments swamp the coastline and rustic land of Andratx (25/1/2000)

- The GOB asks the Govern not to continue with the Parc BIT project (4/1/2000)



ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

- Forum for Environment Education in the Balearics (23/1/2001)

- 10 years' Service of Environmental Education by the GOB (19/10/2000)

- Volunteer environment camps at La Trapa and Sa Dragonera (16/7/2000)



TRANSPORT

- The "March for the Llevant train" will reach Artà this year (15/10/2002)

- European Car Free Day (16/9/2002)


- Another year the "March for the Train for the Llevant" (29/9/2001)

- Sustainable mobility. The other way of moving (30/3/2001)


- "Train yes, but not like this" (12/1/2001)

- The GOB rejects the project to widen the road from the UIB (21/3/2000)

- Accident prone on the Balearic Roads (29/1/2000)


WATER

- Do we want more golf courses on the Islands? (6/3/2002)

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Ses Fonts Ufanes: natural monument (10/7/2001)

- The Ufanes springs in Campanet (8/3/2001)

- GOB and Matas: the environmental impact of the desalinisation plants (13/6/2000)


WASTE

- A million tons of building rubble per annum (1/6/2000)


CONSUME

- Bioconstruction days (21/2/2001)

- Days for Sustainable Consume (14/11/2000)

- Balearic Forum for Responsible Consume (4/10/2000)



PEACE


- Massive participation in the demonstration against the war (30/3/2003)

- Massive demo against the war (15/2/2003)


Other


- Large participation in the human chain for Galicia (10/12/2002)

- Leaked oil blackening Spain's coastline (21/11/2002)

- International Day for the Ozone Layer (5/9/2001)

- The GOB and Joan Llaneras the most voted in the survey Mallorcan 2000 (11/1/2001)

- Meeting of Nature Photographers of Mallorca (9/1/2001)

-The GOB give the prizes "Ciment"and "Alzina" (18/12/2000)

- The GOB presents the campaign "Heaven" (25/7/2000)