The arrests of two activists accused of making graffiti against five real estate agencies in Santa Maria have raised tensions ahead of the anti-tourist massification demonstration called for this Sunday, July 26, in Palma. The GOB considers the action against the two women to have been "disproportionate" and warns that the case "further inflames spirits," while making it clear that the graffiti should not have been done.

The GOB continues to warm up its engines for the demonstration against tourist overcrowding this Sunday, July 26, at 7 p.m. In a social media post, the environmental organization has published a list of reasons why they encourage the population to attend the rally to show their disagreement with the island's tourist and economic model and the consequences it has for residents.

The Government has tried this Monday to lower the tension surrounding El Trenc after last week's massive human chain. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment, Joan Simonet, has met with the GOB and assured the environmental organization that "not a single square meter" of the Trenc-Salobrar de Campos Natural Park will be unprotected.

The GOB has presented a series of allegations to the project for the chicken mega-farm that would be located in the Son Brau area, in which it is requested that the environmental impact declaration not be "favorable" until an "adequate" assessment of the repercussions on the na Borges Special Conservation Area (ZEC) is provided.

The battle for the future of the Trenc Natural Park and its surroundings has concrete names. Individuals and companies that for years have been trying to prevent the consolidation a protection strip around this protected area, as consecrated by the Natural Resources Management Plan (PORN) in 2023. One is the Sa Barralina polo field, promoted by the company Es Figueral Gran, which filed one of the four legal challenges against the 2023 Trenc management plan. Like other landowners, they did not want the park's area, already delimited in 2017 with the law that declared it, to be expanded, even if it was simply as an influence area. Because they believed they would lose opportunities to carry out activities, such as parking lots and, in some cases, restaurants. This is the heart of the conflict that currently surrounds the natural park, after the Government has reserved the possibility of modifying it directly.

The environmental organizations GOB and Terraferida, promoters of the demonstration against mass tourism on July 26 in Palma, have distanced themselves this Wednesday from the manual published last Tuesday by the platform Menys Turisme, Més vida through their social media profiles.

The massive human chain that formed on Sunday on Trenc beach (Mallorca) to demand the conservation of one of the most emblematic natural spaces of the Islands had an unexpected protagonist. The mayoress of the municipality of Campos, Francisca Porquer (PP), burst into the reading of the manifesto and tried to make critical statements about the protest. A behavior that has even been regretted by President Marga Prohens. "I was at an event for multiple sclerosis and I was already wearing a bikini; if not, I wouldn't have gone", she justifies in statements to ARA Balears, in which she rejects accusations of boycotting. "My intention was not to provoke, but to listen", she assures.

The mayoress of Campos, Francisca Porquer (PP), burst in this Sunday in the middle of the reading of the manifesto of the human chain in defence of Trenc and starred in the only moment of tension of a mobilization that took place in a calm atmosphere. Porquer placed herself next to the writer and columnist of ARA Balears Sebastià Alzamora, who was reading the manifesto, and the spokesperson for the GOB, Tonina Siquier.

The GOB, Terraferida and the Less Tourism More Life Platform have called a protest on July 5 under the slogan 'es Trenc NO es toca' (the meeting will be at 10 am at the parking lot of the Ràpita Nautical Club). Participants will form a human chain at Es Trenc in defense of the island's protected areas, affected by the provisions that the PP has incorporated into the Omnibus Law. The three entities have once again warned that this norm will reduce the protection of the natural areas of the Balearic coast, especially in areas like Es Trenc, in addition to making coastal uses more flexible.

Drums of war are sounding in Mallorca's environmental sector. Marga Prohens' government, after a string of environmental deregulation and deregulation measures, has now dared to tackle one of the great symbols of Balearic environmentalism: Es Trenc.

The GOB has asked the Balearic town councils this Thursday to report on how many constructions on rural land have been legalized through the positive administrative silence mechanism, after the Government eliminated this route with the new Law on urgent measures for strategic projects.

The GOB and the Water Alliance have criticized the changes introduced by the omnibus law in urban planning and water management matters, considering that they weaken the environmental control mechanisms over urban growth at a particularly delicate moment for the water resources of the Balearic Islands.

Joan Moranta has assumed the interim presidency of GOB Mallorca after the resignation of Teresa Cuennet and a dozen members of the board of directors, in an internal crisis that has been straining the island's main environmental organization for months. In a statement published this Thursday, GOB reports that Moranta is provisionally assuming the presidency "with the will to guarantee the continuity of the organization and ongoing projects" while the new internal phase of the collective is redefined.

Surely these days you have heard about GOB Mallorca. This writing aims to explain why a group of 10 women resigned from the board of directors on May 22 at the extraordinary assembly of the entity: a resignation that does not respond to differences regarding the defense of the territory or environmental campaigns, but rather to a sustained internal situation of confrontation, personal wear and tear, and lack of respect that has made the continuity of the project we defended unsustainable.

The GOB, the most important environmental organization in the Balearic Islands, a national and international benchmark that has contributed to the preservation of emblematic spaces and the generation of environmental awareness in the Islands, is going through a major crisis in its Mallorcan section. The internal conflict of the board of directors ended on Friday with the resignation of the president Teresa Cuenet and nine other members. There are 13 officials left at the helm of the organization.

The extraordinary assembly of GOB this Friday ended with the resignation of ten members of the board of directors, including the president, Teresa Cuennet. The reason, as explained by the resigned members: the impossibility of reaching an understanding with the other part of the same board of directors regarding the entity's model and work system.

The Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB) has annulled the hotel use within the Alcudiamar concession, in the port of Alcudia, by partially upholding an appeal. The sentence (238/2026) renders ineffective the clause that allowed this activity.

Marga Prohens recovered at the presentation of her candidacy to lead the PP a slogan from the 2023 electoral campaign: “We are the party of the local people”. How has this translated into the Government's management?

After 17 years, Margalida Ramis will cease to be the spokesperson for Mallorca's main environmental group, the GOB. Ramis has confirmed to the newspaper ARA Balears that the change not only means stepping down as head of territorial campaigns and spokesperson, but also marks the end of her working relationship with the GOB.

The Government defends the project for the second electrical link between the Islands and the Peninsula as an "essential" infrastructure to guarantee supply and advance the energy transition. The Executive especially endorses the route planned through La Herradura, in Alcudia, which it considers the most viable option from both a technical and environmental point of view.