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Fines contested
Jo Pugh
A MEETING was held in Palma on Tuesday July 11 with the objective of finding solutions to the problems generated by the imposition of fines during the term of the previous local government, and which those affected consider illegal.
The councillor for Mobility, Toni Deudero, accompanied by the general director of Mobility, Antonio Román, met with the representatives from the group ‘Stop Fines Without Notification’.
teaching staff from 11 schools attended. The training was divided into three intensive days. The project seeks to promote collaboration between everyone involved in the school food chain, including producers, kitchen staff, teaching staff and experts in nutrition and child health. The aim is to review, together with educational teams and service personnel, how to approach three parameters time, space and relationships so that healthy eating habits are formed.
During the meeting, the representatives explained to the councillor the current situation in which more than 100,000 affected people find themselves, and requested that solutions be sought from the court.
Toni Deudero, after listening to the group, explained that “We have asked for all the information available on this issue to be able to address the problem. What we will do now is to find out the state of the different files that are being processed and depending on the results we obtain, the most appropriate and convenient measures will be taken.
“Now the important thing is to know the facts and their consequences in depth and then act accordingly,” said Román.
ACCORDING to researchers, climate change has seen record numbers of turtles nesting in Spain and Italy, what was once a rare occur rence is now becoming more common.
The sea turtle’s habits are changing because of the warming of Mediterranean waters. At least 15 sea turtle nests have been detected in re cent weeks on beaches along the Spanish coast, with two cases in Mallorca, according to a news outlet on Tuesday, July 11.
Italy too has seen a huge in crease with around 100 or so nests, laid in Italy, which is a record number of nest sites on the coasts of the western Mediterranean in a single season.
The details have been confirmed by various experts from the universities of Vic, Barcelona and the Polytechnic of Valencia, which, with the collaboration of the University of Valencia and the Doñana Biological Station, has begun work on the InGeNiCaretta sity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the European Union.
SEA TURTLE: Its habits are changing.
According to biologists, climate change is modifying the nesting area of the loggerhead caretta) and has taken it to regions where it had not nested before, which poses new challenges for biodiversity management in these territo ries. This emerging colonisation is occurring in areas popularised with humans, as is the case on the Spanish coast, another reason why appropriate management is needed if the turtles are to succeed. which offers a very similar service in China basically sells cheaply produced Chinese products at incredibly low prices. Indeed, many people pay nothing for their goods as they can receive significant disEWN 20 - 26 July 2023 8 euroweeklynews.com NEWS
The first sea turtle nest detected this season in Spain appeared at the beginning of June on Can Pere Toni beach in Palma, Mallorca. It was soon followed by more nests detected on beaches in Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia and Andalucia.
Scientists hope that the results of the InGeNiCaretta project will make it possible to improve conservation measures for the species, particularly with regard to nesting activity on the Spanish Mediterranean coasts.
