The environmental group GOB stated this Wednesday that the draft agrarian law being processed by the Government incentivizes real estate operations, "runs over" the territorial planning of each island, and intends to override basic environmental regulations, which it considers unconstitutional. Representatives from GOB Mallorca and Menorca and GEN-GOB Eivissa met this Wednesday with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment, Joan Simonet, to express their rejection of the draft agrarian law and present proposals "aimed at guaranteeing the economic viability of farming, strengthening the protection of agricultural land, and advancing towards a sustainable food production model rooted in the territory".

The GOB has submitted allegations against the project for new nautical facilities at the Can Picafort Nautical Club and asks Ports-IB not to approve it in its current configuration. The environmental organization considers that the proposal, with 79 moorings, 5 piers, and nearly 70 anchors on the seabed, does not offer sufficient environmental guarantees.

The Salvem Portopí campaign has started a signature collection to try to gain citizen support against the industrial uses that the Balearic Islands Port Authority plans to concentrate around the Castell de Sant Carles. ARCA, GOB, Palma XXI, and Fridays for Future are demanding that this strip of the port be destined, instead, for a cultural, heritage, and environmental park that integrates the historic port of Portopí, the Signal tower, and the castle.

The Palma City Council has defended the Sustainable Water Management Plan in the face of criticism from the GOB, which has questioned the forecasts for future water availability and has claimed that with the water consumption data used in the document, it will not be possible to supply the 10,000 homes that Cort has planned to build. In contrast, the councillor and deputy spokesperson for Cort, Llorenç Bauzá, stated this Wednesday that the plan is designed to ensure that the city has enough water in the face of the projected population growth and has censured the environmental organization's desire to "manipulate" the information throughout the plan.

Llorenç Galmés admits that Mallorca "has reached the limit and cannot grow anymore", but he will not modify the main territorial and tourist planning instruments that the Council has to curb this growth. This is the contradiction that GOB and Terraferida have pointed out after meeting this Thursday with the island president at the Royal Palace. The entities left with a clear conclusion: "The feeling is the same as we had with Marga Prohens".

For three hours, the President of the Government, Margalida Prohens, and the representatives of GOB and Terraferida have addressed the outcry that has been heard on the streets this summer to demand limits on the model of land consumption and tourist saturation in the Balearic Islands. Prohens received the two environmental organizations this Tuesday afternoon at the Consolat de Mar, after months marked by massive social mobilizations.

After a summer marked by social mobilizations against the tourism model, GOB and Terraferida already have a date to personally convey their demands to the President of the Government, Margalida Prohens. The head of the Executive will receive the representatives of the environmental organizations on Tuesday, September 24, at 6 p.m.

The Official Association of Architects of the Balearic Islands (COAIB) warns that the coastal law promoted by the Marga Prohens Government could open the door to perpetuating urban illegalities on the coast. The professional entity warns that the conservation of existing uses, responsible declarations, and the new coastal heritage registry could protect illegally established constructions and activities.

The GOB has reported “serious irregularities” in the seasonal services of Cala Major, where this summer two sunbeds and a parasol are being offered for up to 125 euros per day in a modality that the environmental organization considers does not conform to the rates provided for in the authorization documentation.

The GOB has filed a complaint with the Balearic Islands Prosecutor's Office to investigate the contamination by synthetic chemicals known as 'forever chemicals' (PFAS) detected in the Son Saletes supply network, in Sencelles. This situation forced the City Council in July to declare the water unfit for human consumption after detecting concentrations of these chemicals higher than admissible values. The affected population cannot use this water for drinking, cooking, preparing food or baby bottles, washing fruits and vegetables, or making ice, and must resort to alternative sources of drinking water, environmentalists have recalled.

Three weeks, this is the time that has passed since GOB requested a meeting with the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, and the President of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, to know if they are willing to listen to the outcry of the 70,000 people who, according to the organizers' figures, demonstrated in Palma on July 26th against the perverse effects of saturation and touristification on the lives of residents. The meeting was requested just one day later, on July 27th, but the Executive has ignored the environmental organization's request. "We have not received a single response," assure GOB sources.

GOB Mallorca will close the La Trapa estate between August 12 and 13 as a preventive measure to protect this space in the Serra de Tramuntana in view of the forecast of a high influx of visitors due to the solar eclipse.

The Minister of Tourism, Jaume Bauzà, referred this Wednesday to the complaint from GOB and Terraferida, who requested a meeting with the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, on July 27 and have not yet received any response. "Agendas are complicated," he pointed out at an event at the Can Sales library, in addition to stating that the entities will be attended to at some point, as reported by Europa Press.

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.