The Environment area of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has reported an Instagram user for violating the ordinance of protected natural spaces in the land law by eroding the slope of the Corona Volcano in the conejero municipality of Haría. Likewise, the Civil Guard has been informed of this video and is analyzing it.
The woman, who participated in the Haría Titán competition on November 28, uploaded two videos to social networks where she was seen running outside the trails, dragging herself along a side of the mountain and taking endemic plants from the area in her path.
In a video published on social networks, it can be seen how the woman crawls along the slope of this space classified as an area of ecological sensitivity. The spokesperson for Ecologists in Action of Lanzarote, Nona Perera, points out that "the volcano and the Malpaís de la Corona have recognized their environmental values since the Canary Islands Natural Spaces Law of 1987, where it is included as a Natural Park and by the law of the year 94 as a Natural Monument".
As La Voz has learned, the Environment area of the Cabildo has identified the woman and reported her. For the moment, the user has already removed the videos from social networks. Now she faces an administrative sanction accused of committing a crime against the environment.
In one of the videos shared by the aforementioned social network, the woman climbs up the side of the volcano imitating that she is climbing a ladder, while continuing to step on the slope. Thus, from the ecological platform it has been pointed out that "these laws recognized the patrimonial values but, despite having passed 36 years, the Cabildo of Lanzarote has not processed the corresponding management plan for this space. This plan must include load studies to determine the permitted and prohibited uses."
Perera has continued saying that "if the Cabildo, which must manage this and other spaces, does not do its job, it submits it to a state of defenselessness because the people who watch over it cannot base their complaint, even if they see such condemnable acts as those we see in the images, where a person is seen leaving negative traces in one of the richest tabaibales of the islands.
In this space grows the sweet or balsamic tabaiba which is the symbol of Lanzarote. "It seems that the person who runs, crawls and erodes a wild space that the Cabildo does not manage despite being its obligation does not care", concludes the spokesperson for Ecologists in Action.
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Not like that. The volcanic terrain of historical eruptions is very sensitive to degradation. pic.twitter.com/tVD2FRCrG3
— Medio Ambiente Lanzarote (@Ma160Agente) December 10, 2023
The Environment area of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has pointed out on social networks a visitor who during the December bridge walked in an area where passage was prohibited. "Not like that. The volcanic terrain of historical eruptions is very sensitive to degradation", he exposed in his official account of X (formerly Twitter).
