Sunday, August 06, 2006
Ecologists Call for the declaration of a Marine National Park for Tenerife
Green group, Ben Magec-Ecologistas en Acción (Ecologists in Action), have presented a proposal for the declaration of the area of the coast of Tenerife from the Punta de Teno (north west tip) to the Punta Rasca (south west tip) as a marine national park, because the Council for the Environment of the Canarian Government, who had previously tried to declare the area in question as a natural park, has allowed the application to expire, say Ben Magec.
Spokesman for Ben Magec-Ecologistas en Acción, Rubén Fuentes, made the declaration in a press conference, underlining that this was not just an initiative of this ecological collective, but that it has two precedents:
One of the precedents is that the proposal made by the Council for the Environment of the Canarian Government, which had wanted to declare the area, which starts from Teno and runs to the Punta Rasca, as a natural park, but that they have allowed the application to expire.
The other precedent is a previous proposal by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment for the declaration of that area as a marine national park.
The initiative presented by Ben Magec-Ecologistas en Acción is for the declaration of the area as a marine national park for cetaceans, because of the constant presence of these animals to the south west of Tenerife.
Such project would protect the marine life and cetaceans in the area and would be incompatible with the construction of a port in Granadilla.
They don't say it directly, but I will. That last point makes the fact that the authorities have allowed these applications to expire look at little fishy.
Solicitan un Parque Nacional Marino para Tenerife
