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 stranding of a sailboat on the bay's promenade after recent winds has once again brought attention to illegal anchoring and the abandonment of vessels along the Balearic coast. This is the complaint of the environmental organization Arrels Marines, which warns that the incident "is not only a consequence of the storm but also of a structural problem" of lack of control and neglect along the coastline.

The environmental group Terraferida announced on Monday the resumption of its public activity almost three years after suspending it. This coincides with the tenth anniversary of its founding and the imminent publication of a study that, they say, reveals an "unprecedented destruction" of the Mallorcan landscape over the last decade.

The media is reporting on a major controversy. A great injustice perpetrated by the Palma City Council: the Christmas lights don't reach all corners of the city with equal abundance and intensity. Intolerable.

I still can't come to terms with the news: Xisco Avellà He was leaving us forever. It was Pep Lluís Pol who told me on Tuesday morning, "Yesterday Xisco set sail on his final voyage." It was hard to believe, especially since just a few days before he himself had told me he was feeling better. Suddenly, stories, anecdotes, campaigns, situations, events… all starring him began flooding my mind.

Between 8,000 and 12,000 deaths or illegal permanent anchoring due to mooring boats have plagued the Balearic Islands' coastline for decades, a consequence of historical inaction by the government. These facilities cause a significant environmental impact, to which must be added the abandonment of hundreds of moored vessels, which are entering a phase of degradation "discharging fuel, oil, plastic waste, and various chemical materials into the sea," explains the biologist responsible for the report. Balearic SeaRaquel Vaquer. Furthermore, "these anchorages are often in areas that don't have the same level of protection as a port, because they have been occupied irregularly, which means bad weather affects the vessels much more severely and, therefore, the degradation process accelerates," she concludes.