The Arrecife City Council is developing multiple activities related to nature and the environment this week, coinciding with the commemoration of World Environment Day. During this week, the Municipal Government is promoting the Environmental Week.
On Thursday, June 6, the Municipal Archive hall hosted the official opening of the Internalizing Nature Conference, which aims to promote environmental and social volunteering. These conferences, with the participation of prominent speakers, took place on Thursday and Friday afternoons, and include, in addition to the talks, the realization of workshops by the participants.
The Councilor for the Environment, Davinia Déniz, has detailed that the speakers at these conferences included, among others, Professor Bernardo Hernández, the Spanish Agnea champion and expert in water therapies, the co-founder of the Federation of Education in Nature, Manuel Velázquez, the WWF technician, Alexis Rivera, and the promoter of Karcajadas, Ana Suárez, among the speakers who contributed their knowledge to implement guidelines for coexistence with nature in the city of Arrecife.
On Friday, June 7, the professor from the University of La Laguna, and head of the Environmental Psychology Research Group, Bernardo Hernández, spoke in Arrecife about the 'Restorative capacity of places: nature contributes to our well-being. Can we benefit from the restorative effect in cities? Nature in the urban context'.
The conferences were inaugurated tomorrow, Thursday, starting at 5:00 p.m., with the intervention of the co-founder of the National Federation of Education in Nature, Noelia García, followed by the presentation of the WWF technician, Alexis Rivera, who addressed environmental volunteering as a tool for social environmental transformation.
The mayor of the city, Yonathan de León, works to "involve citizens in the new directions that the capital of Lanzarote is focusing on, and where the residents have a lot to tell us," said the local leader.
That Thursday afternoon, the Spanish Agnea champion and expert in water therapies, Manuel Velázquez, also stood out among the participants as speakers, who contributed to these conferences the vision on the "aquatic laboratory to connect emotion-nature".
Another of the exciting presentations at these municipal conferences had as a strategy to promote "the opportunities of sustainability for social reintegration and the waste project will be presented to competitions", with the interventions of José Goñi, Tharais Armas Correa, and the contribution and vision of local businesses, with the participation of the representative of the Lanzarote company Grupo Chacón, Carlos Armas Rodríguez.
The people registered in these conferences also participated in practical workshops. Among the activities of the Department of the Environment, a walk was made from the area of the Municipal Archive to the beach next to the Castle of San Gabriel, passing through this beautiful area of the maritime coast of Arrecife.
In addition, the city council has promoted, together with these conferences, an exhibition with the Pastinaca, and several workshops focused on the creation of orchards on the roofs, and the realization of cleanings of the seabed, with the support and collaboration of the Pastinaca Underwater Activities Club, and the Los Marlines Canoeing Club.