The entire island of Mallorca will end up being a large city. I first heard it about thirty years ago, and I couldn't say from whom. A spokesperson for GOB? A professor from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University? A militant from the PSM? It doesn't matter now.

The environmental organization Terraferida denounced on Tuesday the rural urbanization process taking place in Mallorca, where 15 square kilometers have been urbanized between 2015 and 2025, an area equivalent to the entire Cabrera archipelago. Terraferida launched a manifesto on Tuesday calling for the protection of areas outside of villas and photovoltaic power plants, as the first step in a campaign that will take them to municipalities to inform residents with data and images about the rural urbanization process affecting the island.

Five rural chalets built per week between 2021 and 2024: this is one of the figures reflecting the territorial destruction of Mallorca, made public this Thursday by Terraferida. The organization has resumed its activities and plans to tour towns across Mallorca to raise public awareness of the seriousness of the situation. A situation where no major action is being taken, because the urbanization process is diffuse but more destructive than ever.

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.