The deputy in the Parliament of the Canary Islands for Lanzarote and La Graciosa and island president of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC), Yoné Caraballo, has announced the registration of a new Non-Law Proposal in the Canary Chamber to declare the El Jable environment as the first Rural Park of Lanzarote.
This initiative comes at the proposal of the Local Committee of the Canaristas in Teguise, which through its councilor Fernando Jiménez defended in April the need to increase the protection and dissemination of El Jable, being rejected its motion by the local government group of Coalición Canaria (CC), Partido Popular (PP) and the councilor transfuge of Vox.
On this occasion NC-BC seeks to have better luck by raising the proposal to the Parliament of the Canary Islands with the aim of uniting the consensus of the parliamentary groups to urge the Government of the Canary Islands to declare the first Rural Park in Lanzarote. This Rural Park of El Jable would allow a balanced coexistence between the conservation of the natural environment and the human use of the territory. This flexibility is key in environments such as the insular ones, where human activity has historically been decisive in the configuration of the landscape, especially on the island of Lanzarote through the production of grapes, sweet potatoes, potatoes or onions.
For Yoné Carballo, "it is not about prohibiting all human interventions, but about regulating and guiding them so that they do not compromise the natural and landscape values of the area. In this way, biodiversity and geodiversity are protected without excluding those who depend on the territory to live."
NC-BC, different environmental groups and residents of the region are very concerned about the future of El Jable, which over the last decades has shown a notorious degradation in its biodiversity and landscape. Illicit activities such as tourist motor excursions or the massive extraction of aggregates endanger one of the richest natural environments on the island, with a deep identity and cultural link with the people of Lanzarote.
Therefore, from NC-BC they insist on the need to shield El Jable from threats that pose irreparable damage to its biodiversity. A need that connects with the feeling of the majority of Canarian society that has manifested itself in favor of caring for and protecting the island territory and against the developmental practices that degrade our coasts and mountains.
"It is urgent to protect and care for our home, which is precisely our island territory. El Jable and La Geria are the two most emblematic landscape environments of Lanzarote, where human activity has coexisted with the natural in an orderly and harmonious way. We must return to that harmony that made us an island Biosphere Reserve and a world example," says Yoné Caraballo.
