The association Right of Way They have called a rally in Selva this Saturday, March 28th at 12:00 pm to demand free and respectful access to the Tramuntana mountain range, in response to the measures included in the new landscape protection law that particularly affect mountain biking (MTB), hiking and climbing.

The future law of the Tramuntana mountain range The draft legislation, currently in the public consultation phase, will prioritize administrative simplification "to prevent protection from becoming an obstacle to land management" and will allow "the development of complementary activities compatible with conservation." This was announced by the island council's governing team at the presentation of the draft legislation on Wednesday. The president of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, explained that the text "avoids prohibitions and is based on collaboration, administrative simplification, and sustainable economic development."

Plataforma per la Lengua has reported up to five known cases of linguistic discrimination in the Balearic Islands between December 2015 and February of this year, specifically for speaking Catalan in commercial establishments and customer service areas. The organization is calling on the government to enact a specific law guaranteeing consumers' right to be served in their own language and establishing penalties for violations.

The GOB (Balearic Ornithological Group) has filed a complaint with the European Commission against the land acquisition and administrative simplification laws passed by the government of Marga Prohens, alleging they "violate European environmental law and the Water Framework Directive." According to the organization, these regulations represent "a complete break with European environmental law and jeopardize the islands' basic natural resources, especially water, an overexploited and fundamental resource in the context of the climate crisis." The complaint was formally registered earlier this week and is directed against the Balearic Islands' regional government and the Spanish government. With this action, as explained by GOB spokesperson Margalida Ramis, this completes "the legal and institutional offensive that the GOB has launched in recent months against the decrees and laws of the Prohens government that profoundly interfere in territorial and urban planning without adequate guarantees of participation, environmental oversight, and respect for regional powers." It is worth noting that in recent months the organization has already filed two appeals with the Constitutional Court and onecomplaint before the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), an advisory body to UNESCO, regarding the effects on the Tramuntana mountain range. "It is the final, decisive, and strong push," he emphasized.

Dozens of lifeguards demonstrated simultaneously in Palma and Ibiza to protest against the amendment to Decree 2/2005 regulating their work on beaches. According to the professionals, the proposed amendment establishes a non-preventive lifeguarding model, which contemplates the placement of towers 800 meters from the sidewalk. They also criticize the fact that it leads to increasingly shorter seasons, designed for tourists rather than residents.