OTWO

27/10/2025

Another year, and another arrival of the creative and aesthetic pressure that comes with Halloween! 🎃👻🕸 Single-use costumes and decorations can be an eye-watering expense for such a short-lived event, so why not make something up from the waste we already have?

At OTWO, we have some collated some ideas below... send us your creations or tag us in your posts!

COSTUMES 👗
- Bedsheet ghost 👻(or angel dress?🪽)
- Bin liner witch skirt 🧙‍♀️(or vampire cape?🧛‍♂️)
- T-Shirt fairy wings 🧚‍♀️ (or bat?🦇)
- Fabric rag mummy ⚰️ (or zombie? 🧟)
- Leaf witch 🧝‍♀️ (or Mother Nature? 🌬)
- Cardboard creeper 👾 (or Frankenstein's monster? 🤖)
- Egg carton samurai 🥷 (or box troll? 🧌)

DECORATIONS 🎃
- Relabel old jars with something creepy 🫙
- Cut out origami spider webs from a bin liner 🕸
- Make bunting from scraps of paper 🚩
- Make a haunted house / castle entirely out of toilet roll tubes 🏚
- Pierce holes in tin cans to make lanterns 🥫
- Reuse empty paint buckets as trick-or-treat bags 🪣
- Draw scary faces on fruit with pen (not the edible part!) 🍌
- Reuse old or broken toys like doll heads as plant pots 👼
- Paint and decorate disposable flowerpots into spiders 🕷
- Cut out shapes like eyes in toilet roll tubes and feed fairy lights through them to make a hanging light-up decoration! 🧻

EXEMPLAR UPCYCLABLE MATERIALS
- Old clothes, rags and household textiles 👕🛏
- Cardboard and paper 📦🗞
- Tins, cans and jars 🥫🫙
- Toilet roll tubes and egg boxes 🧻🥚
- Disposable containers like flowerpots and paint buckets 🪴🪣
- Bin liners 🗑🚯
- Natural materials! Go scavenging for dead leaves, wood, grass and flowers 🍁🥀
- Old or broken toys 🐻👼

23/10/2025

Have you ever seen a snow leopard? ❄️🐆 These beautiful big cats live in the cold, alpine regions of northern Asia, where they roam solitarily through ranges of up to 220 km²! 🐾🗻

Snow leopards are apex predators, meaning they play an important role in protecting vegetation from overgrazing, by controlling populations of mountain sheep and goats. They are also useful to scientists as accurate proxies for measuring climate change.

Unfortunately, they are listed as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN, meaning they are at risk of endangerment, and this is mainly due to poaching (of the leopards themselves or their prey) and habitat loss due to global warming.

Supporting the conservation of a species so far away is admittedly difficult where we are, but ways to help with this issue indirectly could include fundraising or sponsoring a snow leopard through charities such as World Wildlife Fund () and The Snow Leopard Trust ().
snowleopardnetwork.org is a worldwide organisation where you can find more information, including exchange and insight from individuals around the world with the aim of snow leopard conservation.

Finally, more general information about *local* wildlife conservation initiatives can be provided by Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society - GONHS () and the Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park (). 🐾

17/10/2025

Have you ever visited Doñana? This gorgeous national park in the south of Spain is one of Europe's most beautiful and important wetlands. 🏞
Marca Parque Natural by Consejería de Sostenibilidad y Medio Ambiente () present a compelling article describing its background, things you can do and why you should visit. 🐾🌱🥾

Read for free here 📖: https://joom.ag/Gk2d/p94

16/10/2025

Today OTWO are at the “Caminando la Frontera” congress in La Línea! 🚶 🎤 This event brings together leaders from all walks of life - politics, urban planning and environmental affairs - with the shared vision to make our cities in Spain and Gibraltar more pedestrian-friendly. 🚦🚧

In particular, we look forward to gaining some insight from the Mayor of Pontevedra, who ambitiously kickstarted Pontevedra’s transition into a “car-free” city with pedestrian priority. These changes have statistically improved air quality, reduced traffic accidents and helped local commerce thrive. 💚

Could we achieve the same thing in Gibraltar and La Línea?🤔

15/10/2025

*** SALES VACANCY ***

Are you a confident , friendly and results-driven person? Do you recognise the importance of science and environmental communications in today's world? Do you like to spend your working hours out-and-about, networking?

If you meet those criteria, then this job might be for you! OTWO are looking for an outgoing sales representative to sell advertising for our quarterly magazine!
With over 100 distribution points, we are the only Gibraltar-based magazine available in print in Spain, with our online editions accommodating an additional global audience. Visit our website for more info and free editions of the magazine: otwomag.com

Other duties include periodically selling sponsorships for our other projects and assisting with event preparation such as the annual EcoFestival weekend.

Commission will be paid, in addition to the hourly rate.
Fantastic opportunity for establishing connections within Gibraltar and Andalucía.

Practical requirements:
✅Sales experience
✅Bilingual, with unrestricted access across the frontier
✅Full driver's license and own vehicle (petrol will be reimbursed)

Character requirements:
✅Self-motivated and resilient
✅Able to manage time and tasks independently
✅Confident in selling products
✅Able to approach and liaise with a diversity of clients comfortably
✅Strong and consistent communication between company and clients

Experience in journalism, science communications or environmental work not required.

Send your CV and a cover letter, explaining why you would be a good fit for the role to [email protected]

Feel free to DM us with any further questions.
We look forward to hearing from you! 🌱🌍📖

13/10/2025

Welcome to the vibrant and hilly city of Lisbon- one of the oldest capitals in the world with a population of over half a million people! 🇵🇹🕍📍
Despite having a lot more land than Gibraltar, you may be surprised to discover that the population densities of both places are actually very similar. This means we are both tackling a difficult trade-off between demand for increased urbanisation, and space for nature. 🏙🌳🐾
So, what to do? OTWO visited some organisations who were successfully reforesting small pockets of the city (at no one's expense) for inspiration on how to implement a similar environmental strategy in Gibraltar. This was a four-day trip alongside the company of The Gibraltar Horticultural Society () , Whole Wild World (.rewild) and GBC ().

Many thanks to the kind and proactive organisations responsible for these projects and for being our guides:
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa () 🎓🧑‍🔬
HortaFCUL () 🌿🌳
Urbem (.forests) 🌱👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Lisnave () 🚢🗾
🌸🇵🇹

Our September edition of the magazine includes our PORTUGAL SPECIAL; a series of articles detailing our experiences and what we learned, which you can read for free here 📖: https://joom.ag/Gk2d/p40

11/10/2025

Did you know Gibraltar is part of one of the most important avian migratory bottlenecks in the world? This means a lot of birds pass through here during the change of seasons, to summer in Europe or to winter in Africa! 🦅🐦🐦‍⬛🪿🕊

The Mediterranean olive tree is an important food source for many of these birds. It is one of the most common trees in Gibraltar, making up most the greenery you can see on the Upper Rock. 🌳🌿🗻

Migratory birds are important to conserve because they play vital roles in ecosystem health, from dispersing seeds to controlling insect populations that damage crops. Of course, wildlife-friendly infrastructure ensured at a government level such as protecting the nature reserves and vegetation by law is fundamental in disrupting this migration route. However, some things we can do to protect our fauna include:

- Respecting the wildlife when visiting the nature reserve (both the plants and animals)
- Leaving nests and bird boxes alone
- Not littering or unnecessarily overusing vehicles
- Contacting Wildlife Authorities when required: For injured birds, it is important to contact the appropriate authorities, such as the Avian Control Unit on 20066588, rather than taking matters into your own hands.
The Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park () also take in grounded or injured swifts to rear by hand.

For more information, check out Gibraltar Nature Reserve (.gi) , Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society - GONHS () and The Gibraltar Natural History Museum ().

General sources: RSPB () , Birding The Strait () , Consejería de Sostenibilidad y Medio Ambiente () and SEO/BirdLife ().

10/10/2025

09/10/2025

Did you catch us on The Hub on GBC last night? 📺 🤩

We talked about how our Active Travel Month challenge went! You can watch the episode again this Friday evening or on demand at GBC.gi

Event sponsored by AMA Services Ltd🧱 🍃

09/10/2025

We won 🏆🥳 🌱 The ‘Daring to be Greener’ Award at last night’s Sustainable Awards 2025! Thank you so much to the and .gi for this opportunity.

We talked about our latest projects in OTWO, including our quarterly international magazine, our podcast series OTWOPod (on YT and Spotify), our sustainable transport campaigns, EcoFestival and of course, the recent Active Travel Month challenge! 🍃

You can find out more about us on our website: otwomag.com

08/10/2025

Our carbon savings report for Active Travel Month in September, as a part of OTWO Challenge. 🚲🚶🏁🌱 Thank you Asile Ltd and Reshift for this data.

07/10/2025

More than 800 people across Gibraltar signed up for Active Travel Month, for a collective total of close to 88,000km across four weeks.