The General Directorate of Natural Environment and Forest Management of the Balearic Government has fined a company 25,000 euros for organising jeep excursions in the Peninsula del Levante Natural Park (Mallorca), a protected area.
As reported this Monday by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment, another company that offered jet ski rental from Mollet de s’Oberta, in the Albufera Natural Park in Mallorca, was also fined 10,000 euros.
The two companies did not comply with several points of the regulations of the Natural Resources Management Plan (PORN) of these two natural parks.
“These sanctions are an example of the work carried out by the Government to ensure that environmental violations in the Balearic Islands do not go unpunished,” said Minister Joan Simonet.
One of the main objectives, the adviser added, is to “change the negative dynamics of past years, in which many environmental sanctions were allowed to expire due to mismanagement.”
In the same vein, the general director of Natural Environment and Forest Management, Anna Torres, wanted to emphasize that “the trend in the prescription of sanctions is being reversed, which in the last legislature was 75 percent, a period in which “they prescribed some 4,000 sanctions.
“We are working with the intention of reaching zero prescription as soon as possible and, for this reason, the ministry is considering reinforcing the sanctions section with more personnel,” added Torres.
