<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - Natural Park]]> 10 <![CDATA[The polo field, one of the businesses that are battling to reduce the limits of El Trenc]]>

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.

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The GOB has modified the organization of the human chain called for this Sunday, July 5, in defense of Trenc, after reaching an agreement with the organization of the solidarity day Mulla't per l'Esclerosi Mòltiple, which also takes place at the Club Nàutic de la Ràpita.

]]> <![CDATA[Destroy the Trenc (and all the rest)]]> That old saying that goes ‘the law is made, the loophole is made’ has acquired a new dimension with the Omnibus Law of the Government of Marga Prohens, which has been a loophole from the very beginning. At first, it was called the Law for the acceleration of strategic projects and was announced as a reduction of administrative obstacles for foreign investors, an idea that may seem reasonable if by “foreign investors” we mean minimally presentable companies, and not vulture funds and Central and South American mafias. The spectacle arrived with the presentation of amendments, with which the PP and Vox took the opportunity to stuff this law with the commitments that the PP had acquired with Vox, none of which had anything to do with the initial objective of the law and yes with the ideological obsessions of the extreme right. Thus, the new law ended up making room for things as strategic as the legalization of pigeon shooting at popular festivals, the reservation of places for military personnel in the Local Police, and the use of taser guns by municipal agents, among others. So far, we are talking about the kind of things that excite fans of Chuck Norris films. There are others that are more directly harmful to the common good and citizen coexistence, such as the toughening of conditions for minors under guardianship to receive an emancipation income, the relaxation of conservation controls for environmentally relevant spaces, and the elimination of the Catalan language requirement in various areas and cases of public education, among others.The following blunders have culminated in a huge mess: the deregulation of natural spaces, in general, and of the Trenc – Salobrar de Campos Natural Park, in particular. The amendments introduced to the Omnibus Law on this matter represent a blatant deregulation of the legal regime that has so far protected the Natural Park, and grants the Consell de Mallorca the power to modify it by simply approving a decree. Despite the PP wanting to deny it, and taking to social media accusing environmental organizations –Terraferida and GOB– of spreading lies and fakes, the reality is that this new legal framework grants ample room to fill Trenc with kiosks, constructions, parking lots, beach services (sunbeds, umbrellas, sailing and sports schools, jet skis, etc.) and all sorts of tourist uses. Beyond the Trenc Park, the Omnibus Law also deregulates other areas considered of environmental relevance such as the Cabrera National Park, the Dragonera Natural Park and the Serra de Tramuntana Natural Site.Ultimately, a final offensive to fill everything with cement and concrete, and also to fill some pockets with banknotes (few, and mostly foreign: the PP and Vox and their allied businessmen act as commission agents in this business). There is also, as we have said on occasion, a component of revenge: in the vicinity of Campos and Santanyí, within very specific families, the declaration of El Trenc as a natural park and the demolition order for the illegal apartments of Les Covetes, still sting. This is a story of the avarice and indignity of some who have thought themselves the elite of these islands, against the well-being of all society. It may be that many will agree with them out of ignorance, self-interest, or simple servile inertia. But there are also many of us who will not stand idly by to watch them destroy everything for the unhealthy hunger for money that they have not earned. Those of us who disagree will see each other several times this summer: the first, next Sunday, the 5th, at the human chain of El Trenc.

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The Local Police of Sant Josep has dismantled an illegal settlement in a protected area of the Ses Salines Natural Park (Ibiza) and has issued a dozen fines with sanctions ranging from 10,000 to 30,000 euros.

]]> <![CDATA[A 72-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the fires in the Albufera Natural Park.]]>

The Civil Guard has arrested a 72-year-old man as the suspected perpetrator of several forest fires in the Albufera Natural Park of Mallorca, as part of Operation 'Rodes de Foc' (Wheels of Fire), launched in 2014 to investigate those responsible for the fires in the area. According to the Civil Guard, the arrest took place on Tuesday, February 10, after agents from the Nature Protection Unit of Mallorca (UPRONA) identified the individual thanks to a combination of evidence and information from the public.

]]> <![CDATA[Illegal nightclub closed in Formentera Natural Park]]>

The Formentera Island Council has closed an establishment located in the Natural Park until the safety deficiencies detected are corrected, in addition to the sealing of the music installation.

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