To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Timanfaya National Park, the Public Use Management Conference will be held throughout the week at the Mancha Blanca Visitors and Interpretation Center (Lanzarote). An activity to reflect on the future challenges of Spain's only eminently geological national park, which attracts thousands of tourists every year.
The conservation of the Timanfaya National Park and sustainability will be debated on July 16, 17 and 18 at the Mancha Blanca Visitors and Interpretation Center (Lanzarote) where all the presentations and round tables will be free of charge, but prior registration is recommended, as seating is limited.
On Wednesday, July 16 at 5:00 p.m., the lawyer Josema Garrido, an expert in the territorial and environmental reality of the islands, will open the conference talking about the 'Historical and legal context of public use in the Timanfaya National Park'.
She will be followed by Isabel Betancort, customer experience director of the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers of Lanzarote, who will present the 'Management model of the Montañas del Fuego tourist center'. The day will conclude with the intervention of the biologist Rafa Paredes, who will analyze the 'Environmental impact of tourism in the park'.
On Thursday, July 17 at 4:45 p.m., the Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy in the Government of the Canary Islands, Mariano Hernández Zapata, will open the second day of presentations, to give way to José Juan Lorenzo, managing director of Promotur Turismo Islas Canarias, who will elaborate on a transcendental topic: the 'Decarbonization and regeneration of the tourism sector'.
Next, the head of the Landscape and Food Sovereignty department of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Francisco Fabelo, will present a 'Proposal for a management model for public use in the Natural Park of the Volcanoes'.
Elena I. Villagrasa, director of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park and Rodrigo Suárez, director of the Picos de Europa National Park will share their 'Experience in access control' of the respective national parks they manage.
Round tables
Friday, July 18 will be the time to identify problems, undertake a constructive debate and agree on solutions.
At 5:00 p.m., a round table will begin to discuss 'The management of public use in the Canary Islands national parks', moderated by María José Jiménez Díaz, head of the National Parks Coordination Service of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Pascual Gil Muñoz, director-conservator of the Timanfaya National Park, host of the meeting, the director of the Caldera de Taburiente National Park, Ángel Palomares, the director of the Teide National Park, Manuel Durbán and the director of the Caldera de Taburiente National Park, Bernabé Gutiérrez will participate.
After a break, a second round table will be held entitled 'Institutional perspective of public use in Timanfaya', moderated by Ana Carrasco, director of the Biosphere Reserve of Lanzarote, in which the general director of Natural Spaces and Biodiversity of the Government of the Canary Islands, Miguel Ángel Morcuende, the managing director of Promotur Turismo de Canarias, José Juan Lorenzo, the CEO of the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers of Lanzarote, Ángel Vázquez, the Minister of the Environment of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Samuel Martín, the mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda and the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín will participate.
The 'Public Use Management Conference' will be fully streamed live through the YouTube channel of the Timanfaya National Park, so that the debate transcends the island borders and can be participated by people who are outside Lanzarote.
