Ecologistas en Acción has publicly denounced "the double standard" for executing demolition orders for traditional huts built by the sea in Lanzarote, while large hotels built on the maritime-terrestrial public domain (DPMT) continue to operate.
The environmental defense organization has denounced the demolition of a traditional hut in Playa de Seifío, on the coast of Haría, as "a definitive blow against the traditional fishing/land economy" of Lanzarote. This new demolition is in addition to another small fishing house demolished at the beginning of the week in Caleta de Escamas, also in Haría.
“We reject the harshness with which the 20 to 100-meter demarcation of the DPMT is enforced against the traditional heritage of Lanzarote, while large hotel offenders are ignored," the environmental organization has stated.
"Memory is being demolished, not cement. These huts were a dual economy: land and sea. Where the boat was kept, shelter was sought, blankets and sheepskins were washed, fish was dried, and San Juan was celebrated," the collective highlighted. "The Papagayo Arena, with a final demolition sentence from the TSJC, is given a temporary concession for its 700 beds. The Seifío hut, with almost 100 years of history and a concession although expired, is sent the excavator,” declares Ecologistas en Acción Lanzarote.
Ecologistas en Acción has requested to halt these demolitions and to classify these huts as Ethnographic Heritage and give them provisional use as "support for underwater fishing, a refuge for hikers, and a maritime culture classroom". "The island's coast cannot be protected by expelling the neighbor with the DPMT and at the same time filling it with concessions for sunbeds and umbrellas," they added. "First they took the sea from us. Now they are taking our memory," the collective concluded.
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