Tag: Friends of the Earth Malta
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Environmental groups launch legal fundraiser to overturn controversial Comino hotel approval
Ten environmental and heritage organisations have united in a public appeal to challenge the recent approval of a major tourism development on Comino, warning that the project could lead to irreversible damage to one of Malta’s last natural sanctuaries. The permit in question, PA/04777/20, greenlights the construction of a 140-bed luxury hotel, 16 private villas,…
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NGOs, academics and citizens demand emergency protection for British Barracks at Fort Chambray
A coalition of environmental and heritage NGOs, supported by hundreds of citizens including leading academics, historians, and artists, has applied formally for an Emergency Conservation Order regarding the British Barracks at Fort Chambray in Gozo. This follows several calls to schedule the 19th-century building with a view to saving it from demolition that fell on…
