On Sunday, the 21st of May, a Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) was rescued in the port of Porto Moniz by a team of IFCN officers. According to the Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN), the animal weighing 38 kilos and measuring 60 cm was caught in fishing nets and…
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Tourists have been blatantly ignoring keep-out signs on the Porto Moniz promenade, all because they want a photo of the sea.
A young boy was injured this afternoon in the natural pools in Porto Moniz when a large wave swept him out to sea.
The Porto Moniz City Council will celebrate World Tourism Day tomorrow by providing free entry to the Madeira Aquarium, located in Porto Moniz.
At 4.00 pm yesterday afternoon, the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA) recorded a 2.2 magnitude earthquake off the northeast coast of Porto Moniz.
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.
Today the President of the Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque, visited the Regional Civil Engineering Laboratory (LREC), to learn about the new features of the new Integrated System for Monitoring and Alerting Natural Risks in the Region (SIMARN).
Thunderstorms affected Porto Moniz last night, so much so that lightening struck a house in Santa, Porto Moniz. The strike caused a power outage, and set the house on fire.
Christopher Kozek, the brother of missing Pole, Michal Kozek, who went missing on Tuesday the 7th of July has returned to Madeira.
A car driver was filmed this week using a pedestrian walkway as a short cut in Porto Moniz.
An earthquake measuring 2.0, on the Richter scale, was recorded off the northeast coast of Porto Moniz by the IPMA at 04:51 this morning.
The mayor of Porto Moniz City Hall will receive Henrique Afonso (better known as 'Pirata'), a Madeiran sailor who sailed the world for two and a half years aboard his boat, 'Sofia of the Sea,' tomorrow at midday.
The Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA), have confirmed that they have recorded two earthquakes in two days.
The brother of Michal Kozek Krzysztof, the Polish citizen who disappeared on Wednesday while out trail training has not given up hope, and has asked everyone to help him find his brother.
With 110 new positive cases of Covid, (103 local transmissions), and the shenanigans of the Savoy Palace end of year party, tension is high, especially since Porto Moniz, a municipality who thought it was safe from the virus woke up to find that one person had infected nineteen people, either directly or indirectly, forced dozens to self-isolate, including public officials, all through a days work of face to face meetings.