| Jávea Grapevine No.173 2015
News
From
Agenda
21
Compiled by
Christine
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Amjasa plans to diversify After finishing the year with €2million in profits, the municipal water company,
AMJASA aims to initiate new lines
of business covered by its articles of
Association. The Council, together
with a small group of collaborators,
has produced 4proposals to double
the turnover of the company: managing public moorings in the port, a bus
service, running an environmental
centre at the San Antoni Lighthouse
and marketing bottl ed water. This,
after assessing that there are no
sports or activities to support. From
XAD: Amjasa ....
Xàbia starts replanting indigenous
trees in fire affected area Xàbia
Town Hall staff have started to plant
indegenous species such as wild olive and kermes oak in areas affected
by last September’s wild fire. They
have also put up signs asking people
to keep away from some areas
so that natural regeneration can take
place. Burned woodland near the
picnic area has been removed and it
is now possible to see right accross
to the Torre de Gerro and Valencia
coast, a view which was previously
obscured by the lush pine forest. The
owners of private land upon which
the ruins of the Ermita de San Antoni
and a viewing area is located have
put up their own sign asking for people to stick to the paths and thus help
natural regeneration. From XAD: Inician..
Move to make the Marine Reserve
of the Cap de San Antoni a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Denia Town
Hall has strated moves to have the
Marine Reserve of the Cap de San
Antoni declared as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. They will need suppoert from Xàbia, the Valencia Generalitat, the Denia Marina and the
Central Government before the request can be subitted to UNESCO.
The function of these reserves is to
preserve and protect biodiversity, as
well as the economic and human development of these areas, research,
education and the exchange of information among the more than 620 reserves in 117 countries that make up
the global network. Las Provincias
Spain - A great place to live, a
terrible place to work? Spaniards
sleep fewer hours and work longer
days than their European neighbors,
but are less productive. At the same
time Spain fails to attract overseas
talent, while tens of thousands of
well-educated Spanish youngsters
are heading abroad in search of work.
The country also has one of the EU’s
highest school drop-out rates and a
work culture hostile to the needs of
families with young children. Meanwhile, its birth rate is fast approaching negative as its population ages….
Jaime Malet, head of the US-Spanish
Chamber of Commerce, accepts that
among the problems Spain faces are
widespread nepotism, absenteeism,
and fewer incentives to improve productivity, along with a refusal to recognize and reward talent. For full story see: El Pai’s in English
Record year for foreign tourists
Between January and November this
year, more than 61.7 million international tourists visited Spain. That
figure is higher than the total for all
of 2013, 60.65 million, which is to
say that with a month of it still to go,
2014 has already been a record year
for tourist visits to the country. The
country broke the 60-million barrier
for the first time last year – a figure
that looked like it would be difficult
to beat, given that it was partly due
to the weakness of other tourist markets, such as Egypt, which was the
victim of political instability during the
year. The United Kingdom continues
to be the main source of tourist visits
to Spain, accounting for a quarter of
the total. For full story see: El Pais in
English
Benefactors A Norwegian family,
resident in Xàbia, has donated €1000
to the Town’s Social Services Department through the Association of
Women Entrepreneurs (MEJ) to help
support a single parent family. The
benefactors have made a number of
donations over the past few months
totalling €4000, asking only that the
money is used to support women
who have been suffering ill-treatment
or a difficult separation. From XAD:
Una familia Noruega...