Moviment Graffitti, Nature Trust Malta Welcome White Rocks Park Proposal

After Prime Minister Robert Abela announced that White Rocks is set to be turned into a family park, the decision was welcomed by activist groups and NGOs, among them Moviment Graffitti and Nature Trust.

‘Moviment Graffitti welcomes the announcement that a government tender for the privatisation and development of the White Rocks Complex will be withdrawn and the site designated as a new national park’, wrote the activist group.

‘In 2020/21, Moviment Graffitti collaborated with the Faculty for the Built Environment and other groups on a project to imagine new uses for White Rocks.’

However, the activist group said that this will not be ‘accepted as a fig leaf for the destruction’ of other zones, and reiterated the calls to withdraw Bills 143 and 144 and the three legal notices.

Speaking to Malta Daily, Nature Trust Fee Malta also welcomed the decision.

‘We also hope that that natural habitat is kept and conserved.  NTM has been managing the adjacent Pembroke Natura 2000 site since 2011.  Similar to this site since they touch each other, White Rocks site is rich in flora species such as wild orchids.’

‘Ntm had even had meetings with the then Minister, Dr Jose Herrera to eventually link with the Pembroke Natua 2000 site as a park. Furthermore, NTM notes that so far most of the Green open spaces available are not natural areas.’

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Photos: Designs by Kyle Mangani, Matthew Grech and Nicole Kenely (Moviment Graffitti)