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The Councilor for the Environment of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Vidal, together with the Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, the director-conservator of the Lagunas de La Mata-Torrevieja Natural Park, Francisco Martínez, and the deputy manager of AGAMED, Gemma Cruz , have presented this morning the planting and regeneration activities that will be carried out on the occasion of the celebration of Tree Day 2024. Some actions that will take place on January 31 and February 1, for schoolchildren from all centers Torrevieja schools.

The Department of Fiestas, the Department of Gender Policies and LGTBIQ+ and the "Torrevieja Diversa" association present the events on the occasion of the celebration of Pride 2023, which will take place from June 28 to July 9 in Torrevieja.

It will include an economic feasibility study that serves as motivation for the decision to protect, rehabilitate and exploit the old facilities of the salt industry as tourist use with therapeutic-cultural-educational and recreational activities.

The Councilor for Social Welfare and Equality of the City Council of Torrevieja, Tomás Ballester, accompanied by the director of the social consulting firm EQUÀLITAT, participació i Igualtat, José Luis Sahuquillo, have presented the campaign to raise awareness and prevent chemical submission among the youth population that is It will take place on August 26 and 27, and on September 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 and 23, at night from 00:00 to 03:00.

The winning company is imesAPI SA, and the contract is for 4 years (2+2), worth 450,000 euros per year, which represents a global amount of 1,800,000 euros (VAT included)

The MOE has chosen Torrevieja to be the first city to carry out the act of swearing to the flag after the COVID-19 pandemic

In a meeting held this Thursday morning at the Torrevieja Town Hall, chaired by the mayor of the city, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Social Welfare and Equality, Tomás Ballester, the last two winners, Encarnación Rebollo and María Teresa Sáez, the journalist Melania Sala on behalf of the local media, as well as Josefina Nieto as a representative of the cultural field and Antonia Albentosa, a housewife, acting as secretary María Isabel García, proceeded to the election of the MUJER awards 2022 on the occasion of the celebration next Sunday, March 8, of "International Women's Day". After reading all the proposals received by the Department of Social Welfare and Equality, it has been decided unanimously:

This device will be presented as a novelty at the Mobility and Road Safety Fair in Amsterdam, INTERTRAFFIC, the largest event in the sector in Europe

Yesterday morning, Tuesday, a meeting was organized with the residents of Torresur, an area of the Rocajuna urbanization, with a majority of British residents, with the presence of the deputy mayor of the Torrevieja City Council, Rosario Martínez, the Councilor for Security and Emergencies, Federico Alarcón, and the mayor of International Residents, Gitte Lund Thomsen, and in which members of the Civil Guard and the Torrevieja Local Police were also present.

The Department of Equality of the City Council of Torrevieja has made available to the educational centers of the town a co-educational project using the traditional game of the goose, but updated and versioned in a gender perspective. It is an interactive teaching material to work on equality between women and men in relation to professions, activities, co-responsibility..., aimed at primary school students.

The team of researchers from the University of Alicante, led by Professor Rosa María Martínez Espinosa, is studying the use of halophilic microorganisms to clean contaminated water and brines before they are returned to the sea. Microorganisms consume these contaminants as food and make them disappear. At the same time, they create a biomass that can be used to make bioplastics. A raw material that can replace polluting plastics.

The Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE), with the support of NaturGreen and under the direction of the Department of the Environment of the City Council of Torrevieja, directed by Antonio Vidal, has been advancing in the recovery of the plant formations of the Municipal Natural Park Molino del Water in La Mata. During the 2022 campaign, the implantation of 500 seedlings of dune species is planned in order to improve the vegetation cover and recover threatened species or species that became extinct in the province of Alicante.