The 'Lanzarote International Film Festival' has left its "green footprint", donating two new trees in the capital of the island of Lanzarote. These trees, donated by the festival organization, have been transplanted by the Department of Parks and Gardens of the City Council in a green area of the Charco de San Ginés and 'Porto Naos'.
The festival management had conveyed to the heads of Parks and Gardens of the City Council "their desire to be able to plant, every year, different trees as a symbolic commitment to leave a 'green footprint' for each edition held in Lanzarote", within "a message towards the '2030 Agenda', for the environmental commitment to the Planet".
The first two trees of this initiative have already been transplanted, recently, in an area that the City Council is regenerating with plantations to provide shade to this enclave where a marine-themed playground is located.
The technical coordinator of the festival, Francisco García, and the head of Communication, Ana Oyana Peyrard, participated in the 'symbolic planting'. The mayor of the city, Yonathan de León, and the councilor of Parks and Gardens, Roberto Herbón, attended on behalf of the City Council.
Two new specimens of flamboyant and Australian ficus already stand upright in this enclave next to some beautiful Indian laurels that were transplanted in this place, after the works of the square in the area of La Harinera, on Pedro Alcántara street, a recovered and transformed public space.
Yonathan de León invites that, in May of next year, in the new edition of the 'Lanzarote International Film Festival', the invited actors and actresses, film directors or members of the jury join the Arrecife City Council's plan to create shade areas by planting new trees, which the capital's mayor is promoting.
The mayor has conveyed to the festival organization his "desire" for these personalities to leave their 'personal tree' planted in Arrecife. The city will put their names with a small plaque next to them.
