The Canary Islands' Ministry of Ecological Transition has allocated 510,000 euros in subsidies to the management bodies or entities of the Biosphere reserves recognized by UNESCO and located within the autonomous community. Lanzarote was the second island in the archipelago to be declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1993.
Through this line of aid, Ecological Transition contributes to promoting the promotion of sustainable development based on the work of local communities and the scientific knowledge of these areas composed of ecosystems that need specific resources for their conservation, promotion and sustainable use.
The counselor responsible for the Area, José Antonio Valbuena, highlights that on this occasion there will be 25 projects, subsidized with amounts ranging between 4,500 and 50,000 euros. Valvuena highlights that "they will serve to launch educational and scientific knowledge actions, but also basic tasks of the Biosphere Reserves, such as the execution of action plans or the recovery of unique natural spaces." The counselor adds that "they will also serve to promote green employment and entrepreneurship linked to new activities that respect the environment, working to promote harmonious relationships between human beings and their environment, exemplifying a new way of relating citizens to nature."
The selection of the benefited applications has been made in a competitive concurrence regime, by comparing the applications submitted to establish a prelation according to the valuation systems established in the regulatory bases and in the call, so that, taking into account the available budget limit, it is guaranteed that those projects with the highest valuation are subsidized.
Among the projects subsidized in this call, the execution of the 2030 Agenda in La Palma, the promotion of the Macizo de Anaga in Tenerife, the "Ecoescuelas" project of the Biosphere in Gran Canaria, the Biosphere Schools in Lanzarote, the regeneration of steppe bird habitats in Fuerteventura, the recovery of springs in the Garajonay National Park of La Gomera and the "Biotell me" project on the island of El Hierro stand out.
Biosphere Reserves are considered to be areas composed of terrestrial, marine and coastal ecosystems, recognized by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Program. These are territories whose objective is to reconcile the conservation of natural and cultural heritage and the socio-economic sustainable development of the population.
In the Canary Islands, the islands of La Palma (1983), Lanzarote (1993), El Hierro (2000), Gran Canaria (46% of the island) (2005), Fuerteventura (2009), La Gomera (2012), and finally in 2015 the Macizo de Anaga, on the island of Tenerife, was declared a Biosphere Reserve.
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