A bush fire in Poço Barral, in Santo António, mobilised local fire brigades this afternoon. According to an eyewitness, the fire was ignited by several drug addicts who live near the site. The fire spread consuming nearby scrubland and rubbish. Later, the same witness, stated that the fire team had to…
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The Forest Police arrested one arsonist per year between 2021 and 2023. Nineteen citizens were also identified for lighting unauthorized fires and two hundred occurrences were registered. This year, in less than two months of the Operational Plan for Fighting Rural Fires, 24 cases have already been reported. Samantha Gannon…
Continuing the implementation of measures to support the dynamisation of municipal markets,
The Bathing Water Quality Surveillance Programme of the Region was extended from April to the end of October, being the responsibility of the Regional Directorate of Health (DRS), through the Division of Licensing and Environmental Health (DLSA) and the Regional Public Health Laboratory. This year, it extends to 65 bathing…
he Regional Government is committed to following what it says is the "popular will" and ensuring the construction of a "new attractiveness" for Curral das Freiras,
In Local Accommodation (AL), 532.1 thousand guests were registered (+39.9% than in 2022),
In a statement, PAN Madeira "regrets yet another death of a tourist and recalls that since last September it has called for urgent and more than necessary measures to be taken to safeguard the lives of those who visit us".
Águas e Resíduos da Madeira (ARM) has issued a statement confirming their changes in the waste collection service in the municipalities, of Câmara de Lobos, Porto Santo, Machico, Ribeira Brava, and Santana, as well as in the waste reception services, due to the public holiday on the 1st of July.
A construction company has been caught by the Forest Police dumping waste earth into the sea in the parish of Porto da Cruz.
Since the beginning of the restoration of the Ponta da Oliveira Garden, in Caniço, a space, managed by the Municipality of Santa Cruz in partnership with the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), has already had 50 volunteers working at the site.
Horários do Funchal has issued a statement confirming that it will implement, from the 1st of July, changes in the last stops in the Avenida do Mar area on some of the urban routes.
The Centre for Sociocultural and Agroforestry Development and Innovation (CDISA), has defended the need to prepare and implement an Integrated Agroforestry Development Plan for Jardim da Serra, which should be extended to the remaining highlands of the Municipality of Câmara de Lobos.
PAN Madeira denounces the use of herbicide near Levada da Negra, located in the upland areas of Santo António.
Forum Madeira, marked World Environment Day – 5th of June – with an awareness campaign against water waste – #GotasdeRealidade – which has been was developed in collaboration with the Funchal City Council (CMF).
According to forecasts from the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA),