The officers of the Environmental Protection and Research Unit of the Department of the Environment and Climate Change (DECC) saw the year close with the stranding of three animals: one razorbill at Sandy Bay followed by two loggerhead turtles, the first at Eastern Beach and the second at Catalan Bay.
2016 marked the successful inscription of Gibraltar’s first World Heritage Site.
The Department of the Environment and Climate Change has for the first time introduced a Christmas tree recycling programme for the disposal of real Christmas trees.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum. This was the first time that the people of Gibraltar were given a direct choice over the future status of their country. Indeed, it could be argued that the Referendum was the first act of acknowledgement that the Gibraltarians were the arbiters of their own destiny.
