The residents of Titerroy have denounced living with "plagues of turtledoves" in the neighborhood for "more than 12 years" "without any measures being taken by the City Council." And now, "very tired" of this situation, they have decided to address the Council to ask it to end this situation.
"If measures were taken when the problem was in the city center, specifically in the Parque Ramírez Cerdá, where even the Island Council, seeing the dangerous situation, convened a table of experts," says the Titerroy Neighborhood Association in a statement.
In the same, the neighborhood group states that the most affected areas are Alcalde Lorenzo Cabrera Street and the Féliz Rodríguez de la Fuente Park, where the turtledoves nest "in trees very close to the houses, with the consequent health problems due to the presence of excrement, both on public roads and the vehicles that park in these areas." In addition, they point out that "the turtledoves perch freely on top of the vehicles."
Likewise, the Titerroy Neighborhood Association denounces that "in the neighborhood you can see in different areas how the branches of the trees and palm trees are about to enter through the windows of the neighbors" and that there is "grove that hides the lampposts, stating that "since it gets dark it prevents safe transit through Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente Park, where an exhaustive maintenance has not been carried out for years"
As for the residents of Alcalde Lorenzo Cabrera Street, they denounce that the trees "have not been watered for more than 20 years", that "they also do not receive any treatment" and are "full of insects". "They also denounce that they do not even look like trees, due to the type of pruning that is done to them," it is added,
"Rotten" palm trees and "many rats"
"They could also review some of the palm trees that are in the garden areas, many are completely rotten and it would be good to remove them. In addition, there are many rats around," also denounce the residents of Titerroy, who claim that there are rodents that have come "to get into their houses" and that "are visible in broad daylight"
These complaints have been "maintained over time" according to the neighborhood group. "Any day a misfortune is going to happen that we end up regretting because one of those branches breaks and breaks the power lines or falls on someone who is on the street," he says.
Thus, the neighbors ask the mayor to "take the reins of control of the Department of Gardens, before it is too late, since the palm trees are in a terrible state". They also ask Ástrid Pérez to "request support from the environmental technicians of the Cabildo de Lanzarote".
"We must not forget that just two years ago the Nature Protection Service of the Civil Guard (Seprona) had to intervene in the Parque de los Pinos, as there were dead animals, where they continue to appear today, and all this very close to two primary schools," adds the neighborhood association.
Finally, he states that he has also informed Public Health, the environmental technicians of the Cabildo and the Insular Delegation of this situation in order to study it and "take the measures they deem appropriate". "What cannot be allowed is that public health and nature are being played with," he concludes.
