Rafael Nunes, deputy of Juntos Pelo Povo (JPP) in the Madeiran parliament, strongly criticised the Government, accusing it of creating an “administrative blockade” that limits Madeirans’ access to the region’s trails and levadas by imposing an online registration and booking system. In his speech, before the agenda was presented, the…
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The creation of the D. Carlos Marine Nature Reserve, which will be the largest marine protected area in Portugal as it covers the Madeira-Tore and Gorringe Bank seamounts, entered public consultation today. The future D. Carlos Marine Nature Reserve has an area of 173,000 square kilometres and “will lead Portugal…
“No owner needs any registration, reservation, or use of a digital platform to access their own land. Access is free, as it has always been, and has never been in question. Any statement to the contrary corresponds to a constructed fantasy, without any legal or factual support.” The statement was…
A group of hikers and mountain lovers gathered this morning at the beginning of PR2, in FajĂŁ dos Cardos, Curral das Freiras, for a protest action against the measures the Regional Government intends to implement from January 2026 regarding access to trails, levadas, and footpaths in the Region. The initiative…
The PS demands clarifications from the Regional Office of Tourism, Environment, and Culture on the process of contracting a company, without a public tender, for the cleaning of pedestrian routes in the Region. The Parliamentary Group of the Socialist Party (PS) demanded, this Wednesday, clarifications from the Regional Secretary for…
Eduardo Jesus highlighted at the Laurissilva forum that there is “a lot of planning” in territorial management and in specific actions to combat threats to the so-called lung of Madeira, stressing the importance of joint work that the Region has prepared to respond to these risks. He underlined the role…
While celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Laurissilva as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Eduardo Jesus, the Regional Secretary for Tourism, Environment, and Culture, announced that from the 1st of January, it will be mandatory to book a time slot to visit Madeira’s tourist routes, including the Laurissilva forest and…
The Regional Nucleus of Quercus da Madeira has expressed its concern about the expansion and construction of new golf courses in the Region. In a note to the newsroom, the Madeira Regional Nucleus of Quercus remarked that choosing to invest public funds in golf shows a “misery in the head”…
Access to Fanal will now be capped at 3,000 visitors per day. The IFCN has set the pedestrian capacity for one of the most iconic spots in the Laurissilva, following a scientific study conducted in collaboration with UMa. The new plans feature an organized, sustainable, and creative concept, with a…
Dora AguĂn-Pombo, curator of the Insect Collection and lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Madeira (FCV-UMa), and Hugo Miguel Silva, PhD student in Biological Sciences at the same faculty, recently participated in the preparation of two publications of great relevance for the enhancement of biodiversity…
Machico will host the TrashTraveller on Sunday, the 2nd of November. The TrashTraveler, local communities, and environmental groups are teaming up for a massive cleanup at Calhau de Machico Beach. This effort, spearheaded by TrashCatch, in partnership with the Municipality of Machico and supported by Surfrider, Remote East Coasters, and…
The Ocean Victory cruise ship has already left the port of Funchal and is now heading to Montevideo, Uruguay, where it will begin its winter operation. This crossing marks the repositioning of the ship for the South American season, during which it will explore itineraries different from the usual European…
During the XII International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions (ICMB XII), Scientific Coordinator, JoĂŁo Canning Clode, stated: “We have about 70 invasive or non-indigenous species documented in the region. The problem is not the number, but whether any of them have an impact. In most cases, we do not have species…
Within the scope of the ecoRoute project, financed by the EMFAF Community Fund, the cleaning of Toco beach was carried out on the 26th of September, with the aim of not only preventing terrestrial rubbish from reaching the sea, but also collecting litter brought in with the tide. On the…
The Administration of Ports of the Autonomous Region of Madeira (APRAM, SA), under the supervision of the Regional Secretariat for the Economy, wants to monitor the level of CO² emissions emitted by ships docking in the region’s ports. The proposal was announced this week by the president of APRAM, Paula…