Information: Coastal border of Flores with protection secured by specific planning plan
Flores have, since today, a new instrument of defence and protection of the natural heritage of its coast, the Coastal Border Planning Plan (POOC) of the island. By means of the establishment of a legal specific regime, the POOC of Flores intends to stimulate the compatibility between the protection and valorisation of the biological diversity of the zone included with the sustainable socio-econo... more >>

Information: Faial Ecoteca commemorates National Sea Day
The Faial Ecoteca promotes this week several activities meant for marking the National Sea Day, which is celebrated on the 16th of November. For Friday, there is planned a “Sea Circuit”, with pedagogic interactive activities that include the local schools, as well as ateliers, games and exhibitions, to be carried out in the Sea Center, installed in the ancient factory of the whale of ... more >>

Information: Government promotes sessions of diffusion of the Chave Verde program 2009
The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and the Sea promotes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, in Horta, Angra do Heroísmo and Ponta Delgada, respectively, sessions of diffusion of the Chave Verde program 2009 that will reckon with the participation of the Associação Bandeira Azul da Europa, national coordinator of the project. The sessions are planned for 13.30 o... more >>

Information: Pedagogic vegetable garden and garden in the Angra do Heroísmo Museum
The pedagogic vegetable garden and gardens that the Angra do Heroísmo Museum (MAH) has since October already received nearly a hundred children in pre-school age. The green zone that goes round the educative service of this institution is located in the former building of the Âncora Tobacco Factory, in the rears of the Museum. As the MAH anticipated, the boys who visit the new service ... more >>

Information: Azores work with the outermost regions in the defence of common interests
The Government of the Azores has been developing a joint work with other European outermost regions in the way of the demonstration of common positions in what it concerns to the preparation of the communitarian period after 2013, affirmed the regional director for European Affairs and External Cooperation, in the opening session of the XIV Conference of presidents RUP happening in Guyana, in whic... more >>

Information: Azores repeated in 2008 number of blue flags in balneal zones
The Azores repeated, this year, the number of 23 blue flags that had already hoisted, in 2007, in so many others balneal zones and recreation marinas of the archipelago. During the 2008 summer, no balneal zone of the Azores was forced lowering the blue flag due to the criterion of the quality of the sea water, having been checked before a general improvement of these results. According to the Re... more >>

Information: Ecoteca of Lagoa promotes activities included in the Cory’s Shearwater SOS Campaign
The Ecoteca of Lagoa, service of the Azores Volcanologic and Geothermic Observatory, promotes since Wednesday and during next two weeks several activities included in the Cory’s Shearwater SOS Campaign. The planned activities are meant for moving the population for the problem of the conservation of the sort, which in this time of the year is especially vulnerable, namely the young CoryR... more >>

Information: Government authorizes occupation of lands of the Regional Ecological Reserve of Furnas Lagoon for requalification of the margins
The Government of the Azores resorted to the figure of recognition of the public interest so that there is allowed the partial occupation of lands of the Regional Ecological Reserve of the Furnas Lagoon, during the first phase of the works of requalification of the respective margins. The decision of the Executive of Carlos César, made real in a dispatch of the secretary for the Environment ... more >>

Information: Lucky Strike and Menez Gwen hydrothermal fountains apply to the Net Natura 2000
The Lucky Strike and Menez Gwen hydrothermal fountains, situated in the Azores’ seas at a depth of about 1.700 and 870 meters, respectively, are applicants to the Net Natura 2000. The request was presented by the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and the Sea, in the sequence of the works developed by the Oceanography and Fishing Department of the University of the Azores, having the ... more >>

Information: Open Days reinforce image of the Azores in the European Union
The participation of the Azores in the “Open Days - European Week of the Regions and Cities”, happening in Brussels, allows improving the visibility of the work that has been developed in the Region in several aspects, constituting, also, an opportunity of diffusion of the regional political reality, namely in the power of the active participation in the Community matters. The opinion... more >>