This afternoon at Molí de Sal, the director of Puleva, Ignacio Elola, handed over to the administration's environment secretary, Daisee Aguilera, and tourism advisory chief, Carlos Bernús, a cheque for €11,000 to adopt 11,000 square metres (m2) of posidonia oceanica, making Puleva the Save Posidonia Project's largest private donator to date.
Secretary Aguilera thanked the company for its contribution, which she said would “drive projects that safeguard Formentera's uniquely important underwater plant”. Posidonia, she explained, is crucial because it acts as a buffer for local beaches and landscapes. “At the end of the day, it's what makes our island into the paradise it is”.
For his part, the director of the Lactalis Puleva group said that the company is "committed so much more than food” and pledged sensitivity to those ecosystems in place where the Puleva company treads.
This year, Puleva held its annual convention on Eivissa and Formentera, bringing some 140 workers to the islands. Today, the company's employees got a close-up look at Formentera's undersea riches on a boat ride with Secretary Aguilera through Ses Salines nature preserve.
Eighty-four thousand square metres sponsored so far
More than 84,000m2 have already been adopted through private and business donations. Money collected to November 1 will go to fund projects aimed at protecting posidonia. Donations are still being accepted—one euro per square metre—at https://www.saveposidoniaproject.org.
Conditions for project proposals can be found on three websites: the Balearic Islands employment office (BOIB), the Formentera Council and the Save Posidonia Project. Proposals will be accepted over two months starting November 1, when donations have closed.
The Save Posidonia Project Festival is set to begin next week, October 12-15.
Today in the conference hall of the Antoni Blanc sport centre, CiF sports secretary Jordi Vidal unveiled details about an event set to descend on the island this Saturday, October 7: the fifth Triatló Illa de Formentera, or “Formentera Triathlon”. Unisportconsulting is putting on the event, and the company's chief, Manuel Hernández, plus Núria de la Torre, head of marketing of sponsoring company Trasmapi, joined Vidal for the presentation.
Officials gathered today to unveil details about the Save Posidonia Project festival. Scheduled to take place October 12-15, the four-day programme of over one hundred activities encompasses sports, culture, education and the environment. Tourism secretary Alejandra Ferrer, on hand for the morning presentation, framed the festival as part of something bigger—Discover Formentera in October—which she predicted would be “a fun-filled event for many tourists”.
Environment secretary Daisee Aguilera was joined by Iván Tolsà, a spokesman for Ecovidrio, at a presentation of a recycling campaign hitting local schools this week. Pupils from two of the island's schools—in La Mola and Sant Francesc's Mestre Lluís Andreu—will participate in activities related to “Suma vidre, a l'escola!” (or, translated literally into English, “Adding glass, at school!”), which began September 28 and is scheduled to conclude October 6.
The Formentera Council's Office of Sport has partnered with APNEEF, an association for Eivissa and Formentera residents with special needs, in organising an outing with children from the group. Participants will be taken for a ride at sea on a special accessible sailboat which the administration acquired last summer.