The Government of Aragon has contracted the services of the specialised company Biocyma S.L. to perform environmental studies aimed at the recovery of the Nuévalos salinas in the province of Zaragoza, Spain. IPAISAL will participate in this work with studies related to heritage. The salinas...
The company Atlántida Medio Ambiente, from Cádiz has offered several online salt tastings, within the framework of the Salinas y Empleo Sostenible III programme, funded by the Fundación Biodiversidad in Spain. Participants were able to sample and compare artisanal salts from Andalusia and the Canaries,...
The 14th International Conference of the ISSRL (International Society for Salt Lake Research) to be held in Murcia, Spain, next October, has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The conference is planned for the third week of October 2021, further information will follow in...
Last November, the third edition of the History of Salt Congress was held, promoted by the Spanish Society for the History of Archaeology and the SEDPGYM, with the support of various local associations and IPAISAL. It was attended by salt experts from all over the...
Last November, the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid hosted the International Seminar on Cultural Landscapes of Artisanal Salt in Spain and Latin America, under the direction of Emilia Román and with the participation of prominent figures from the world of culture and architecture...
The City Council of Peralta de Calasanz, in Huesca, signed last March an agreement with the Provincial Council of Huesca and the Company Salpura S.L. The objective of the agreement is to start a project to recover the Salinas of Peralta, which is protected as...
Last July the twentieth anniversary of the Association of Friends of the Salt Mines of Poza, in Burgos, was celebrated with public conferences, a fair, a salt exhibition and a theatrical visit to the town. The VIII ESTI was also convened. Representatives from neighbouring salt...
The LIFE-SALINAS Project aims at improving the conservation of both the priority fauna species and the habitats of the salinas of San Pedro del Pinatar in Murcia, as well as enhancing the ecosystem services by increasing the production and the improvement of the salt quality,...
Some days ago, we came across an article about how salinas work and the environmental problems they cause (https://pspstation.org/como-funciona-una-salinera/), featured in a website about computer games, a world away from salt making. The author (unknown to us) stated that salt making was detrimental to the...
Most of us were already aware of the invasion of plastics in marine environments. But, as usual, we think of this as a problem far from our daily lives, unless we are directly involved in sea-related activities. We see images of plastic waste floating on...