The Vice-President (VP) of the Regional Government, Pedro Calado has confirmed that cruise ships will only return to Madeira after the summer.
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As part of the Madeira Day celebrations which take place on the 1st of July, entry to Monte Palace Gardens will be free for all Madeiran residents.
Over the weekend, the Regional Secretary for the Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change, Susana Prada, was present at another clean up operation in the port of Caniçal. The first took place in September 2020, where 600 kg of rubbish, including tyres, batteries, glass, plastic and iron were collected.
New legislation in the region has approved the prohibition of some singe-use plastics as well as reducing the use of others.
Campers, (a car with a tent attached to the roof), is the new Hertz Car Hire service, launched in partnership with Jeep, and has just arrived in Madeira.
Students from Clube Eco-paper (9.º1) at Escola B+S Bispo D. Manuel Ferreira Cabral, in Santana, have been studying their "Ecological Footprints," as a way of calculating their impact on the planet since the projects inception in 2013/2014.
On the 14th of June at the Gonçalves Zarco Basic and Secondary School, tropical biologist Ricardo Rocha, researcher in the field of Nature Conservation, researcher at the Research Centre for Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of the University of Porto, and bat specialist held a seminar on the importance of "Bats as agricultural pest controllers in Madagascar and Madeira."
Miguel Albuquerque visited the Civil Protection facilities in Madeira this morning, for the formal presentation of the 2021 POCIF (Operational Plan for Combating Forest Fires).
Sustainability through education is part of an eco-schools project developed at EB1/PE/Creche da Ribeira Brava. The eco-schools initiative was created in 2007 and teaches conservation and good environmental practice through a series of activities.
A section of the Regional Road 222, running through Ribeira Brava collapsed today damaging several cars, and disturbing mourners at a funeral that was also taking place.
The Forestry Police Corps was called out today after the Regional Civil Protection Service received a call saying that a couple of tourists had got lost after leaving the marked route on Levada das 25 Fontes (PR 6).
In a brief statement, it has been confirmed that the search for the missing 54-year-old man, who disappeared after leaving his home to fish for limpets, has been called off.
Professor Dora Pombo, from the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Madeira, has been invited to join the first national network of pollinators, Collaborative Network for the Evaluation, Conservation and Valorization of Pollinators and Pollination Services (polli.NET), which will be launched tomorrow, the 5th of June as part of World Environment Day.
UNESCO project “Biosphere Reserves: Sustainable Territories, Resilient Communities,” promoted by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Action and coordinated by Quartenaire Portugal, is an initiative that aims to reinforce the knowledge, visibility and valuation of the twelve UNESCO biosphere reserves, which include both the Santana and Porto Santo reserves.