JimenaPulse
About Jimena de la Frontera, the province of Cadiz and Spain as a whole, focused on this small village in the mountainsArchive for ENVIRONMENT
(TioJimeno) This is the state of the entrance to Marchenilla, less than two kilometres from the Punto Limpio recycling centre and a spot the rubbish lorries pass several times a day. Pathetic!
Over 1 million cubic metres of beach lost in Sotogrande
(Agencies) Verdemar-Ecologistas en Acción warned yesterday that the beach in Sotogrande has lost “over one million cubic metres of sand” since last winter, according to the environmentalists’ spokesman Antonio Muñoz, who added that the worst losses are “from the Guadiaro River, passing by El Octógono beach and ending at the one at El Cucurucho.”> Read the rest of this entry »
4th ‘Cuenca del Río Guadiaro’ photography competition is open
(Press release. Photo: JimenaPulse) The Junta Municipal de Distrito de San Pablo de Buceite announces the 4th edition of its ‘Cuenca del Río Guadiaro’ (Guadiaro River Basin) photography competition that is part of the annual Guadiaro Interpretation Workshops to be held later in the autumn (date to be confirmed). The bases for the competition are as follows:> Read the rest of this entry »
Wake Up call
On Monday, September 21, Avaaz members and TckTckTck Campaign partners sent a deafening wake-up call on climate change to world leaders–with 2632 events in 134 countries, tens of thousands of phone calls crashing government lines, and an unbelievable creativity and diversity of events… directly reaching heads of state and cabinet ministers from Australia to Europe. Words can’t describe it. This video comes close.
Is Jimena’s phallic symbol a victim of the Red Palm Weevil?
(Children, cover your eyes. Photo by JimenaPulse) In October last year we published an item about the Red Palm Weevil, which elicited no response from the Council or anyone else, except an alarmed reader who tried to report the matter without success. Now it turns out Castellar has had to contract a specialist to eradicate the picudo rojo from its palm trees. We wonder if Jimena will have to do the same before it’s too late to save all the (expensive) new palms being planted.> Read the rest of this entry »

