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THE non-profit Balear Rescue and Humanitarian Aid Group is about to set off on a new rescue journey to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, a zone affected by earthquake last September. The ONG already participated in the initial rescue tasks at that time. In May, Palma Town Hall wants to award a key member of the Group the Police Medal of Merit in recognition of her work. Her name is Mica, and she is a small black labrador. She is trained to find people under rubble and in other concealed locations on the basis of a trace they have
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Medal for Mica Mica is trained to find people under the rubble.
left behind, in the case a cap. All her training takes place in a reward system, triggered when she finds a victim and barks to indicate their location until the res-
cue personnel arrives. Her handler then rewards her by engaging in play with her favourite toy. Mica cannot necessarily get to the victim, that is the
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job of the medical personnel from the rescue team. Dog handler Manu Sánchez says training is always ongoing, two to five times a week, and he has been training Mica for the past seven years. Mica’s work is a fundamental, vital task for the rescue team in locating and rescuing trapped and hidden people. Mica and the Balear group have already participated in missions in Turkey and Morocco. The team is now returning to Morocco in a convoy with a new mission: transporting shoes and school materials to children affected by the earthquake.
TECHNOLOGY, science, education and social responsibility unite in the project of the renovated sailboat ‘Galaxie’. On the morning of Saturday April 27, the Palma International Boat Show hosted the presentation of the ‘Loving the Mediterranean’ initiative aboard the Galaxie, the first 100 per cent electric training boat that could be visited during the Palma Boat Show. Following an investment of €600,000, it has become the first 100 per cent electric training boat longer than 20 metres in the Balearic Islands. Its mission is to promote conservation of the Balearic Sea. This emblematic sailing boat, which was donated to the Joves Navegants Foundation to teach and
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Ed Sheeran in Palma club
ED enjoyed time with friends at the Honky Tonk, one of the liveliest venues in the city, on Friday April 26. He was spotted at the underground scene bar in the La Lonja district, accompanied by friends and flanked by two bodyguards. Ed Sheeran has been a regular visitor to Mallorca since performing as a fresh-faced 20-year-old at the Mallorca Rocks hotel in Magaluf in 2012, just a year after his breakthrough as an artist with hits such as The A Team, You need Me and Lego House. In 2021 he was a headliner at the Los40 Music Awards held at the velodrome.
Ed Sheeran in 2012.
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‘Galaxie’ climate action boat
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The first electric training boat in the Balearics.
educate disadvantaged young people on the islands, has had a makeover to run on renewable energy. It incorporates state-of-the-art zero-emission technology equipment in order to promote research and awareness on the protection of the marine environment.
The project, led by the firm TrueWorld, aims to bring together technology, science, education and social responsibility to promote the protection of the Balearic Sea. During the boat show, hundreds of young people had the opportunity to visit the sailboat.
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