Biodiversity

Amics de la Terra Mallorca presents today the website https://made-in-tramuntana.org This web-directory aims to facilitate and promote the consumption of products from the Serra de Tramuntana, that is to say, those of origin and local production that, through their production, preserve the natural and cultural landscape of the Serra, allowing their small farmers and artisans to continue conserving it. Amics de la Terra launches this web, which aims to be a useful tool for both Read more...

This week we have celebrated the fourth and final day of conservation volunteering with German tourists and residents in the Biniaraix ravine (Barranc de Biniaraix). It been the last of the workshops included on the pilot project carried out by Amics de la Terra with German tourists, aimed at analysing how tourists can actively help in the conservation of the Serra. The first of these volunteering days was in October 2017, the second in April 2018, and the third in October Read more...

2018 ended with more tourists and mountain guides getting involved in the conservation of the Serra de Tramuntana with Amics de la Terra. Towards the end of 2018, fifteen German tourists and five volunteers from Amics de la Terra Mallorca spent the day working together in the Biniaraix ravine (Barranc de Binaraix) with in-situ explanations about the natural and cultural heritage of the Serra de Tramuntana. They learned the technique and helped to restore a Read more...

Tourists get involved in the conservation of the Serra de Tramuntana with Amics de la Terra Thursday on 26th of April, thirty people, among German tourists and local people participated in the second volunteer workshop organized by Amics de la Terra Mallorca to help in the environmental recovery of olive trees and dry-stone walls in the Serra de Tramuntana. In this workshop we also tried to improve the tourist’s environmental awareness by understanding the importance of its maintenance Read more...

The majority admire the landscape but are not aware of the difficulties to maintain it. Half of them are willing to dedicate one day to voluntary work to improve its conservation. According to a survey carried out recently by volunteers of Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND), the majority of German speaking tourists have visited the Serra de Tramuntana on more than three occasions before and are interested to come back in the future. Half a dozen German volunteers spent several days in Read more...