Information: II Technical Days of the BIONATURA Project on the 17th and 18th of October in São Miguel
The Regional Agency for Energy and Environment of the Autonomous Region of the Azores (ARENA) promotes, on the 17th and 18th of October, in the auditorium of the Regional Civil Engineering Laboratory, in São Miguel, the II Technical Days of the BIONATURA Project under the subject “Management and Conservation of the Biodiversity in the Macaronesia”. Fitted by the Community initiat... more >>

Information: Congress of the RAMSAR Convention accepts Azorean candidatures for conservation of humid zones
The candidatures presented by the Government of the Azores for classification, by the RAMSAR Convention, of eleven humid zones of the Region were accepted by the respective Congress. The RAMSAR Convention, which has the name of the Iranian city where it was signed in 1971, appoints one of the first global treaties for the conservation of the Nature and aims at promoting the conservation of humid... more >>

Information: Azores welcome initiative as part of the “Open Days 2008”
The Autonomous Region of the Azores is one of the participants in the sixth edition of the “Open Days - European Week of the Regions and Cities”, which happens between the 6th and 9th of October. For the first time, and responding to a challenge launched by the General Directorate for Regional Policy so that the "Open Days" is decentralized to the whole Community space, each member o... more >>

Information: Candidature of the island of Flores to Reserve of the Biosphere was delivered on Tuesday
The dossier of candidature of the island of Flores to Reserve of the Biosphere was delivered on Tuesday, in Lisbon, to the UNESCO, entity that will have to appreciate the process next months; it announced the office of the regional secretary for the Environment and the Sea. The document is constituted by a dossier with more than 200 pages and by a CD containing detailed cartographical information... more >>

Information: Azores debate European policies in the General Assembly of the Conference of the Outermost Sea Regions
The Integrated Sea Policy for Europe, the impact of the future Common Agricultural Policy and the role of the regions in the policies connected with the Energy and the Climatic Changes constitute main subjects of the 36th General Assembly of the Conference of the Outermost Sea Regions (CRPM), happening in Bayonne, France, with the presence of the regional director for European Affairs and External... more >>

Information: New bird species discovered in the Azores
The Oceanography and Fishing Department of the University of the Azores and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds discovered in the Azores a new species of bird. It is called “oceanodroma monteiro”, nominated so in honour to the investigator Luís Monteiro, deceased in the accident with a SATA aircraft, in December of 1999, in the island of S. Jorge. Only existent in the... more >>

Information: Pico Ecoteca promotes first edition of the AmbiEcos
The Pico Ecoteca promotes on Sunday, in the Town of Lajes do Pico, the first edition of the AmbiEcos, an initiative that will take as a central theme the routes and migrations of sea birds. During the morning, the program of activities is developed in the Preparatory and Secondary School of Lajes do Pico, where there will have place the presentation of the CoastWatch 2008/2009 campaign - “A... more >>

Information: Ecoteca and Services of Environment of Flores and Corvo promote subaquatic cleaning
The Flores Ecoteca and the Services of Environment of Flores and Corvo promote on Sunday, between 9 o’clock and 12.30 o’clock, a subaquatic cleaning operation in the Port of Boqueirão, in Santa Cruz das Flores, to move the whole population in the way of avoiding the deposition of residues in the wharf and in the bottom of the sea. All participants in the initiative will be invit... more >>

Information: World Tourism Day with multiple activities in Terceira Island
The delegation of Tourism of Terceira in partnership with the Regional Tourism Association (ART), University of the Azores and several enterprises of the sector promote, on Saturday, varied leisure and recreation activities to celebrate the World Tourism Day in the two councils of the island. With simultaneous beginning at nine o’clock, the program predicts visits to the Environment Observa... more >>

Information: Management of residues will solve the problem of the garbages in Pico for a decade
The regional secretary for the Environment and the Sea guaranteed today, in Horta, that the management of residues extolled by the Government for Pico will “solve the problem of the garbages in that island for a decade”. The information was advanced by Ana Paula Marques alongside the meeting that she had this morning with representatives of three municipalities of Pico for presentatio... more >>