Fundación para la Conservación de Ibiza y Formentera
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Mission Statement
IbizaPreservation works to preserve Ibiza and Formentera’s land and sea. Our vision is for the islands to be a model of sustainability, where the preservation of the islands’ exceptional natural beauty and resources contribute to local well-being and prosperity. We find solutions to Ibiza and Formentera’s challenges so the environment and community and thrive together. OUR MISSION: We work to regenerate Ibiza and Formentera’s natural environment, with insight, inspiration and impact. OUR VISION: Our vision is for the islands to be models of sustainability, where environment and community thrive together, and the protection of Ibiza and Formentera’s exceptional natural beauty and resources contributes to wellbeing and prosperity for all. OUR PROPOSITION: IbizaPreservation is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the conservation and regeneration of Ibiza and Formentera – funding, implementing and managing environmental projects, monitoring socio-environmental indicators, and inspiring positive action at local government, business and community level. We build consensus and form alliances across all sectors: land protection, biodiversity, marine conservation, NGO strengthening, water management and waste. OUR VALUES: Sustainability: We are committed to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, building a development-focused approach based on human rights. Integrity: We are committed to fulfilling our mission and acting with integrity in all our endeavours. Excellence: We are committed to delivering quality, continuous improvement and the optimisation of our capacities and resources. Transparency: We base our work on honesty, mutual accountability and providing the maximum possible access to information and insight. Equal Opportunity: We are committed to equal rights, diversity and inclusion within the organisation and with the general public. Unity: We believe in teamwork and collaboration internally, as well as with other organisations, in order to maximise positive impact across all our work.
About This Cause
IbizaPreservation's programmes and projects: Ibiza Produce: Strengthening Ibiza’s food production capacity, to regenerate soils and landscapes. Over the past decades, Ibiza’s land use has changed from flora and farmland to urban development and forest cover. This has led to a loss of rural landscapes and the disappearance of local plant varieties, animal breeds and traditional knowledge. Ibiza’s food supply is now largely dependent on imports, and the invasion of pine trees poses a fire risk. IbizaPreservation launched the Ibiza Produce project in 2018, in order to create a platform through which: -Producers can access more markets -Chefs are connected to farms to buy directly from the source -Customers are made aware of where to buy or consume authentic local produce -New producers are supported to set up agriculture/food businesses in Ibiza -Local schools and hospitals commit to buying local product (public procurement). The Sustainability Observatory: Improving knowledge and understanding about socio-environmental issues on Ibiza. The Sustainability Observatory project was started in 2018, in order to track the evolution of socio-environmental issues on Ibiza from a data-driven, scientific perspective. The aim is to guide priorities and actions for the conservation of the island from a position of knowledge. A small team gathers and analyses data annually across a wide range of indicators such as biodiversity, waste, water, energy, territory and tourism. The indicators are based on both public sources, such as the Balearic Regional Government or the Consell of Ibiza, and private ones. The results of this work are made available through regular media coverage, as well as yearly reports. These annual studies are seen as a crucial tool to help inform debate and promote more sustainable solutions. Between 2020 and 2022, the Observatory has also worked to produce a Land Use study of Ibiza, the most detailed map of the island to-date. Co-funded by the A-Team and MAVA foundations and the Consell of Ibiza, and with technical support from Menorca’s OBSAM, the map analyses land covers to a scale of 1:5000. It can be viewed via this link and an executive summary in English is available here. The Sustainability Observatory has also been collaborating since 2020 with entities in Menorca, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote in a comparative study of the four islands, based on a system of joint sustainability indicators. Posidonia Protection: Protecting Posidonia meadows to keep our marine environment healthy and full of life. The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most polluted and overexploited seas on the planet, despite being home to one of the so-called lungs of the Earth, Posidonia oceanica, an endemic aquatic plant present in the waters of Ibiza and Formentera that is key to our marine ecosystem. Posidonia is not only a highly effective carbon sink capable of absorbing 15 times more CO2 from the atmosphere than the Amazon rainforest, but it is also home to an enormous range of organisms. The meadows also purify the waters around us, giving them their characteristic turquoise colour, generate huge amounts of oxygen, capture plastic materials dumped into the sea and return them to dry land, and prevent erosion along the coastline by keeping the sand in place. In Ibiza and Formentera we are fortunate to have extensive Posidonia meadows that are as many as 80,000 to 100,000 years old. These have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. However, the uncontrolled anchoring of boats, pollution and coastal urbanisation have destroyed thousands of square metres of Posidonia, a loss that has serious repercussions for our ecosystem. For this reason, in addition to compiling information on the state of the sea, IbizaPreservation has also launched a responsible boating course aimed at skippers and the nautical sector in general, in order to raise awareness among sailors about their responsibility every time they go out to sea. This is a course project developed by the association One Planet One Life ,which will be delivered to nautical companies and individuals with the support of the Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition. In addition, we are also financing a study evaluating the state of Ibiza’s Posidonia meadows by the environmental group Gen-Gob. We have also lent our support to experts in the marine environment such as Manu San Félix, to whom we gave a grant to map the Posidonia meadows around Formentera, as well as supporting his Vellmarí Association’s Formentera Dive Camp, a children’s education programme, and the development of the Posidonia MAPS application. This can be downloaded free of charge on iOS and Android. IbizaPreservation is a signatory of the Act4Posidonia commitment promoted by POSBEMED 2, a project funded by the Interreg MED programme. The charter asks stakeholders to make specific and concrete commitments for promoting more natural beaches that respect the functioning of coastal ecosystems and more specifically calls for the preservation of Posidonia banquettes. These are accumulations of dead leaves deposited by the sea along sea shores, which support biodiversity and play a major role in limiting beach erosion. Circular Economy: Promoting a model of production and consumption based on reduction, reuse, repair and recycling Ibiza generates the most waste per capita of all the Balearic Islands, at just under 600 kg per inhabitant in 2022. These values are far in excess of the Spanish national average. A large part of this waste is plastic, much of it generated during the peak summer season. Plastic is not just rubbish clogging up our beaches and shores, but it also affects the marine environment, endangering the species that live there. It’s even become part of our food chain, so much so that recent studies have detected microplastics in human organs and our bloodstream. Research has revealed significant concentrations of plastic in the waters off Ibiza. Samples taken from the surface of San Antonio Bay recorded 4,576,111 plastic particles per km2 (compared to an average of 147,500 per km2), the maximum concentration detected in the Mediterranean. IbizaPreservation works to raise awareness and promote more sustainable and circular habits. Also, since 2019, as part of the Plastic Free Ibiza and Formentera alliance, we have issued more than 210 plastic-free certifications to companies in Ibiza and Formentera. In 2021, we built on our existing scheme by launching Plastic Free Balearics (PFB), a new and more scientifically robust certification developed jointly with Save the Med in Mallorca and co-financed by the Monaco-based association Beyond Plastic Med. PFB targets the hospitality sector – one of the biggest generators of plastic waste – and unites the four islands in the common goal of eliminating plastic pollution from the archipelago. Thanks to support from the British band, Depeche Mode, who are donating funds via Conservation Collective through their Memento Mori charity partnership with the watchmaker Hublot, we were able to assess more than local 50 businesses free-of-charge in 2023/24, with nearly 40 certifications granted to those who fulfilled the requirements. Thanks also to the funding from Depeche Mode, as well as from the Consell of Ibiza, since 2022 we have been promoting the Global Tourism and Plastics Initiative, a joint project of the UNWTO and the UN Environment Programme that seeks to encourage the global tourism sector to lead the change towards a circular economy. We have held more than 12 workshops to publicise the initiative and the free tools and resources it offers, as well as a number of one-to-one meetings with businesses and institutions in Ibiza and Formentera. In 2023, we managed to secure 8 new signatories and we continue to seek more. Protecting the Ibizan lizard: Defending Ibiza and Formentera’s iconic reptile from invasive snakes The Ibiza wall lizard (Podarcis pityusensis) is endemic to both Ibiza and Formentera. However, this species is seriously endangered due to the proliferation of invasive snakes that began to arrive from the mainland in the 2000s, mainly in the trunks of imported trees. The situation is so severe that several recent studies indicate that the lizard, which has been present on the islands since before the first humans arrived 4000 years ago, could soon become extinct. Marine Forum: A symposium bringing together parties committed to marine conservation and regeneration. The Marine Forum is an annual symposium on selected marine issues facing the Balearic Islands and, by extension, the wider Mediterranean Sea. The platform brings together all sectors – public, private and civil society – with local, national and international experts in marine environment and conservation. It serves to create high-level debate and propose solutions to reverse the serious situation facing the local marine environment, with the objective of restoring it by 2030. Together, IbizaPreservation, Marilles Foundation, OD Group, Pacha Foundation, Trasmapi and Vellmarí Association constitute the Promoter Group, through which the Marine Forum is funded and organised. We provide the local community with an open space in which to work to improve the present situation and lay the foundations for a better future for the marine environment.