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Save the Cordoba Mosque:
please, sign the petition.

Salvemos la Mezquita de Córdoba · Por una Mezquita-Catedral de todos

The Catholic church in Spain has been exploiting to it's financial advantage the World Heritage Site of the Cordoba Mosque (Mezquita) for decades.

They now even pretend to turn this public site into church estate. They actually have already banned the term Mezquita (Mosque) to impose religious monopoly, while the Mezquita is actually one of the few great universal paradigms of harmony between cultures (main reason why it was declared World Heritage in the first place).

Public pressure is needed towards the government of Andalusia to keep this monument as public property instead of loosing it to private, christian dominion.
Save the Mezquita: please, sign the petition.

 

Pinar de Barbate nature park on the Costa de la Luz, Andalusia

Pinar de Barbate

 

Sierra de Grazalema nature park, Cadiz - Andalusia

Sierra Grazalema

 

El Chorro / Desfiladero de los Gaitanes natural area, Malaga - Andalusia

El Chorro

 

Torcal de Antequera natural park, Malaga - Andalusia

Torcal Antequera

 

Costa de la Luz, beaches of the province of Cadiz

Costa de la Luz

 

Costa del SOL, beaches of the province of Malaga

Costa del SOL

 

Costa Tropical, beaches of the province of Granada.

Costa Tropical

 

 

 

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Petitions
to save unspoiled nature from destruction by mindless speculation
and construction

 


 

Greenpeace


 

WWF World Wide Fund for nature

 

WWF's ultimate goal is to build a future where people live in harony with nature.

WWF's ultimate goal is
to build a future where people live
in harmony with nature.


 

Doctors Without Borders

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF.org)

Doctors Withouth Borders - spanish site


 

Triodos Bank, ethical banking

Triodos Bank - ethical banking


 

Independency Project

Independency Project
in search for a better society
(first eradicate Tax Havens)


 

 

 

 

la duna de Bolonia, Costa de la Luz - Andalucía, España.

SevillaOnlineES supports petitions

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August 2012

SevillaOnline has started to gather and include references and links to petitions that are aimed to save the last few unspoiled natural environments from mindless speculation and mass-construction, most specifically and recently: beaches.

 

Obviously, the goal is to avoid that any more of this:

Natural park Acantilado y Pinar de Barbate, province of Cadiz - Andalusia, Spain

 

gets degraded to anything like this:

Uno de los muchísimos mega-construcciones turísticas que tanto "enriquecen" el panorama de las costas de España.

 

We will gradually add and accumulate existing and new petitions to try and help avoid unspoiled nature go extinct, starting in, but not limiting to, Andalusia.

However, disposing of little time and manpower, we can only "do our best" to try and keep up.

 

This information is already heavily distributed in Spain, but @SevillaOnline we think that signatures of foreigners (possible future tourists) will have extra impact on the local authorities, so, please, do sign if you want to help save unspoiled nature in Andalusia, or, for that matter, unspoiled nature in general.

Gracias :)

 

 

 

Unspoiled beaches in danger!

Although the main reason to visit the beaches of Costa de la Luz would be specifically their unspoiled character, unfortunately several of them are now being threatened with the construction of the typical massive tourist centers, like:

 

la playa del Palmar near Los Caños de Meca

Playa del Palmar, Costa de la Luz

petition at: http://blog.salvarelpalmar.es/

twitter: @salvarelpalmar

 

la playa de Valdevaqueros near Bolonia

Vista sobre Valdevaqueros (bajo amenaza) - Costa de la Luz

Vista sobre la playa Valdevaqueros, Bolonia - Costa de la Luz
foto tomado prestado: ©Gaspar Serrano

 

 

 

 

 

The unspoiled beach of Es Trenc, Mallorca

threatened by yet another macro-hotel

 

The unspoiled beach of La playa de Es Trenc, Mallorca - trheatened by macro-hotel construction

 

Peticion at Change.org

Location of macro-hotel on unspoiled beach Es Trenc, Mallorca

 

Peticion at Change.org

Twitter: #salvemestrenc

Articles

More pictures of Es Trenc

 

 

 

el Algarrobico, illegal mega-hotel in Almería

el Algarrobico, mega-hotel on the coast of Almeria

 

The construction of this mega-hotel of 411 rooms in this protected natural surrounding was declared illegal in 2008 and should have already been demolished.

article in RTVE.es (the spanish public television channel)

petition in Change.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some achievements!

 

Gran Hotel Atlanterra in Zahara de los Atunes, 2002

Gran hotel Atlanterra - Zahara de los Atunes

This hotel was illegally constructed in the 60ies on the beach of Zahara de los Atunes and hast never been opened to the public. It was considered to be the main symbol of the fraudulent innovation of public property and it's demolition one of the mayor examples of the government's intention to abandon obsolete and aggressive construction politics in favor of sustainable development of tourism, respectful of the natural environment and quality of the beaches.

article in the spanish newspaper El País

 

 

Cap de Creus- Catalonia

Cap de Creus, province of Gerona - Catalonia

On this idyllic spot there used to be a Club Med, very popular in the sixties and seventies, but abandoned since 2003. It was bought by the government and invested 7 years and over 10 million Euro to bring this exceptional environment back to it's original state.

article in ecologiaverde.com

 

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Save the Cordoba Mosque: please, sign the petition.

Salvemos la Mezquita de Córdoba · Por una Mezquita-Catedral de todos

The Catholic church in Spain has been exploiting to it's financial advantage the World Heritage Site of the Cordoba Mosque (Mezquita) for decades.

They now even pretend to turn this public site into church estate. They actually have already banned the term Mezquita (Mosque) to impose religious monopoly, while the Mezquita is actually one of the few great universal paradigms of harmony between cultures (main reason why it was declared World Heritage in the first place).

Public pressure is needed towards the government of Andalusia to keep this monument as public property instead of loosing it to private, christian dominion.
Save the Mezquita: please, sign the petition.

 

 

Andalusia

 

Andalusia is the southern-most region of mainland Spain. The outstanding sun and diamond blue skies give the Andalucians their life-loving and friendly character.

 

Natural park Acantilado y Pinar de Barbate, province of Cadiz - Andalusia, Spain

Natural park Acantilado y Pinar de Barbate, province of Cadiz

 

Andalusia is a place of contrasts. The variety of scenery and landscapes ranges from the warm valley of the river Guadaquiver through well wooded hillsides, volcanic deserts, such as Tabernas , to the year-long snow covered peaks of the Sierra Nevada. And then there is some 500 miles of coast with former fishing villages and, now, well established resorts with incomparable beaches to delight the whole family.

 

 

Coastline and beaches of Andalusia,
south of Spain

The coastline, which stretches for some 500 miles, provides a diverse and important habitat. But probably for most visitors, it is best known for the number and quality of its numerous beaches, all paradises of sand, sea and sun.

 

Popular terraces on the beach at Fuengirola - Costa del Sol

 

The coming together of the Atlantic and the Mediterrean has provided a special combination of waters, salinity, tides, quality of sand and micro-climates - almost all of which to the liking of visitors.

From the Costa de la luz of Huelva and Cádiz, through the Costa del Sol of Malaga and the Tropical Coast of Granada to Almería coast there is something special for everyone.

 

Sunset over cape Trafalgar

Sunset over cape Trafalgar

 

 

Nature in Andalusia

Andalucia is rich in nature and wildlife and takes its protection and people’s enjoyment of it seriously. More than 17% of the land (larger than countries like Holland and Austria) is under one form or another of protection. There are some eighty Parks, Reserves and Sites which form a network of graded protection and management.

 

Serranía de Ronda - province of Malaga, Andalusia

Serranía de Ronda - province of Malaga, Andalusia

 

The largest land areas of protection are the Doñana National Reserve (province of Huelva) and the Sierra Nevada National Reserve (Granada). These two have been recognised by UNESCO as of world importance.

 

Next, we have some unique landscapes like the fir forests in Grazalema Park and the calcareous rock formations at Torcal de Antequera and the only desert in mainland Europe at Tabernas in the province of Almeria.

 

Sierra de Grazalema, province of Cadiz - Andalusia, Spain

The reservoir of Zahara el Gastor in Zahara de la Sierra
in Sierra de Grazalema natural park, province of Cadiz

 

In total there are twenty two Nature Parks (Parques Naturales) which cover special mountainous, wooded or coastal areas such as the Cape of Gata in the province of Almeria.

 

HELP avoid more of THIS

HELP to AVOID more of THIS, either in Andalusia, Spain or anywhere in the world.

 

 

 

 

 

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