Press Conference held by NGOs at Dar Manwel Magri, Msida, 15 June 2015
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar Statement on ODZ
For the past decades, the scientific community has been demonstrating that contact with nature in parks, forests, countryside, and coasts has a beneficial effect on mental/ psychological health, concentration, healing, heart rate, levels of stress, blood pressure, pulmonary......
NGOs insist on the viability of using historic sites for AUM
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar, Friends of the Earth Malta and Ramblers Malta are concerned that while the Prime Minister has announced that it might be possible to split the proposed AUM campus on different sites, the Jordanian investors’ legal representative has denied this. The NGOs have each spoken to the Prime......
Following the uprooting of the trees at St. James Ditch, FAA cannot but condemn the damaging and unprofessional manner in which the uprooting of these trees was managed.
While FAA understands that some trees had to be moved in order to allow for the bus terminus turning-circle, the amateurish way in which the trees......
ENGOs Propose Alternative Sites for DePaul University
The eNGOs Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Friends of the Earth Malta, Ramblers Association, Din l-Art Helwa, NatureTrust Malta, Birdlife, Malta Organic Agriculture Movement and Greenhouse welcome the Jordanian investors’ decision to invest $115 million to set up a university in Malta to be backed by DePaul University......
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar expresses its concern about Government’s issuing of a legal notice allowing MEPA to reduce fines imposed for planning abuse.
This is a planning regress that seeks to reverse the 2011 introduction of stricter daily fines, as prior to 2011 the maximum fine amounted to Lm50,000. Government......
The TerraFirma Collective, a newly established NGO Platform, as part of the “Empowering Maltese NGOs” project was launched in Valletta today.
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Last week Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar together with other organisations held its first clean-ups. On , FAA volunteers together with Lets Do it Now and employees from the San Antonia Hotel took advantage of a rare sunny afternoon to clear rubbish from Qawra beach, filling 15 large garbage......
NGOs Friends of the Earth, Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar and the Noise Abatement Society of Malta welcome the study on Malta traffic drawn up by the University of Malta Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development.
The study found that excessive dependence on private transport and the ever-growing......
FAA reply re Victoria Local Council’s Demand to Uproot Trees
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar (FAA) has noted the Victoria Local Council’s claim that uprooting the trees at it-Tokk, is a ‘legitimate demand’. The truth is quite the opposite, as these trees are protected by the Trees and Woodlands Protection Act of 2011, as confirmed by MEPA, therefore......
