About fifty Canarian activists demonstrated in entrance of the Congress of Deputies in Madrid to demand a change within the tourism mannequin within the Canary Islands.
The platform ‘Canarias se Agota’, one of many promoters of the mobilisations deliberate for April 20, led this protest in entrance of the Congress with flags of the archipelago and several other banners denouncing the “destruction of the territory”.
The mobilisation coincided with the vote on a proposal of regulation (PNL) of Podemos political occasion to cease the development of greater than 400 luxurious villas on the seaside of Puertito de Adeje in Tenerife, generally known as the venture of Cuna del Alma.
This Wednesday, a number of activists of ‘Canarias se agota’ are scheduled to start a starvation strike in preparation for the mobilisations on April 20.
The demonstrators demanded the conservation of pure areas, the introduction of an eco-tax, a vacationer and vacation moratorium, and the regulation of the acquisition of housing by foreigners, amongst different calls for.
The Canary Islands Authorities imposed a cease order and a €110,000 (£94,208) superb on the venture’s promoter for beginning building with out acquiring the required environmental influence evaluation.
The works started in Might 2022 and generated social and political rejection, with two detrimental stories on the development made in 2014 and 2017.
On November 11 final yr, the Ministry of Ecological Transition ordered the precautionary stoppage of the works as a result of “imminent menace of environmental injury”.
A precautionary cease order got here in November after they verified the environmental injury the venture would have. Individuals had been tenting subsequent to the works because the starting of summer time.
The development firm had initially claimed that it was unaware that there have been sure protected species within the space.
Nonetheless, the Authorities of the Canary Islands verified shortly after that there’s a inhabitants of vegetation that have to be protected and due to this fact ordered the work to cease.
Now the vegetation had been recognized, not solely by the volunteer scientists who visited the positioning, but in addition by the regional Biodiversity Service and the Company for the Safety of the Pure Atmosphere, but in addition by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, who stated: “Sure there’s a formal recognition from the corporate itself in regards to the presence of this plant and the interference of the works with it.”
