The Cabildo of Lanzarote, through the Environment Area led by Councilor Samuel Martín, has installed new informative and access restriction signage in the Natural Monument of La Corona. This action aims to strengthen the protection of the environment, improve information for visitors and control access to areas of special environmental sensitivity, such as the Cueva de los Siete Lagos.
The signs, located in strategic points of the environment, inform the local population and visitors about access limitations, the prohibition of unauthorized activities and the need to respect the natural environment. They also include clear visual warnings about the use of drones, transit outside authorized trails and the monitoring of the space.
“The Natural Monument of La Corona is one of the most valuable enclaves in Lanzarote from a geological, landscape and scientific point of view. With this signage we take a further step in the defense of our natural heritage, remembering that its conservation is everyone's responsibility”, highlighted the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort.
For his part, the Minister of the Environment, Samuel Martín, has stressed that “this is a comprehensive action that incorporates a unique monitoring system in Lanzarote, installed specifically at the entrance to the cave to prevent events such as those that have occurred in recent months, in which vandalism has occurred that destroyed the improvements made at the entrance”.
“We have launched a strategy that goes beyond signage, now we have tools to monitor, inform and act more effectively in the protection of the environment”, added Martín.
Likewise, the vice president and head of the Planning and Project Coordination Area, María Jesús Tovar, assured that this renovation “was an urgency for both tourists and residents”. “Through the FDCAN funds, we have financed this change of signage that warns of security and prevention measures to maintain this natural space”, she explained.
Continuity in the strategy of protection of natural spaces
The action developed in the Natural Monument of La Corona gives continuity to the strategy of ordering and protecting the natural spaces that the Cabildo of Lanzarote launched last year with the renovation of the signage in the Natural Monument of Los Ajaches. In that case, posters with clear and multilingual iconography were incorporated, as well as control elements to prevent unauthorized access, with positive results in terms of awareness and reduction of impacts on the environment.
With the intervention in La Corona, the Island Corporation consolidates a management model that focuses on prevention, direct information to the visitor and the reinforcement of surveillance through visible and adequate signage. This line of work, coordinated by the Environment Area, is being progressively extended to the rest of the protected areas of the island, in accordance with the objectives set by the UNESCO World Geopark and the Biosphere Reserve of Lanzarote.
The Natural Monument of La Corona covers more than 1,800 protected hectares and constitutes one of the main geological references of Lanzarote. Inside is the Atlántida tunnel, considered the longest underwater volcanic tube on the planet, whose candidacy as a World Geological Heritage is currently promoted by the Island Council in collaboration with academic institutions.
