The refurbishment work of the Zootechnical Station of Madeira - Dr. Carlos Dória, located in Santa, Porto Moniz, is complete, and to celebrate its completion the President of the Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque visited the facility at midday today.
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Sérgio Gonçalves, President of the Madeira Socialist Party, accused, berated the Regional Government (RG) for allowing the mountainous regions of Madeira to become full of weeds, as well as reiterating that the RG cannot blame landowners for not keeping the land clean, when the management of these areas is a public concern not private.
Pastoralists (Shepherds) are also calling for 'honest and tangible laws and regulations' and are harshly critical of the inspection of Madeira’s nature by the Instituto das Florestas e da Conservação da Natureza (IFCN).
The 1st Wine Discovery Day, co-organised by the International Federation of Bacchanalian Confraternities (FICB) and the Enogastronomic Confraternity of Madeira, will take place between the 22nd to the 26th of September in various locations throughout the island.
"Madeira is an example of sustainability for the country," said Professor Filipe Duarte Santos, a renowned specialist in the field of Environmental Sciences and, in particular, on climate change, to the Regional Secretary for Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change, Susana Prada, at the colloquium 50 Years After the Stockholm Conference, held at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.
Continente Supermarket has confirmed that they have bought 750 tonnes of local produce from 20 Madeiran farmers during 2021.
As part of the World Environment Day celebrations, PAN-Madeira has presented some of its proposals for an effective preservation of nature and endangered species.
The seaweed biofuel project in Porto Santo has been deemed a failure by the President of the Madeira Electricity Company (EEM), Francisco Taboada.
The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development reacted today to the PAN's complaints of bee poisoning in Funchal, justifying what it says is an "exceptional situation" and repudiating "vehemently the ill-informed use and radicalisation of this situation made by the PAN Madeira."
Earlier today, the President of EEM confirmed that there is a group of national businessmen interested in visiting the seaweed factory in Porto Santo, but says it is too early to discuss the matter in detail.
Sixty kilos of honey has been produced by the fifteen bee hives, which were installed in the Ecological Park, at the end of 2021, in a partnership between the Funchal City Council and the Madeira and Porto Santo Beekeepers Association - AAMPS.
The PSD Parliamentary Group intends to reconcile the growing demand for hiking with environmental sustainability, with the presentation of legislation that defines a new legal regime for pedestrian routes in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, involving new entities in the creation of recommended routes.
The engineering and biotechnology company 'Buggypower - Gestão e Produção de Biomassa, Lda (BGP),' will develop a new project worth 2 million euros in their microalgae production unit based in Penedo do Sono, Porto Santo.
The National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estatística INE), announced today that the year-on-year rate of change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased to 7.2% in April, compared to 5.3% in March, the highest value since March 1993.
The Pedregal hydraulic tunnel, between Campanário and Serra de Água, will be completed in the summer of 2023, confirmed the Regional Secretary for the Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change, Susana Prada today during her visit to the reconstruction works of a section of Levada do Norte, affected by a landslide last March.