These will be the new components of the Council of the Biosphere Reserve

This first session will be held in the plenary hall of the first corporation at 11.30 am

November 8 2023 (18:58 WET)
Updated in November 9 2023 (09:13 WET)
Oswaldo Betancort and Samuel Martín. Photo: Cabildo de Lanzarote.
Oswaldo Betancort and Samuel Martín. Photo: Cabildo de Lanzarote.

The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, has called for this Friday at 11.30 am, the constitutive session of the Council of the Biosphere Reserve. The members of this entity are renewed every four years after the local and regional elections.

This first meeting will be held in the plenary hall of the first corporation and will serve as a first contact for the political and social representatives appointed, who will have the opportunity to publicly present their positions and objectives.

The president of the Cabildo and the councilor of the Biosphere Reserve, Samuel Martín, invites the public to attend this inaugural session, which opens a period of reflection, debate and agreements regarding the main issues that concern the island's society. Those interested can go to the Cabildo as public or follow the meeting through the Cabildo de Lanzarote's YouTube channel.

After the appointment of its representatives by institutions, political forces and entities of various kinds provided for in the regulations, the composition of the new Council will be as follows:
- President: Oswaldo Betancort García
- Councilors of the Cabildo:

  • CC: Ascensión Toledo Hernández and Samuel Martín Morera (Substitutes: Cinthia Revelo Betancort and Jesús Machín);

  • PSOE: Ariagona González Pérez and Alberto Aguiar Lasso (Substitutes: Belén Morales Cabrera and Celeste Callero Cañada)

  • PP: Francisco Javier Aparicio Betancort (Substitute: María José Tovar Pérez)

  • Grupo Mixto: Daisy Villalba Perdomo-

City Councils:

  • Arrecife: Echedey Eugenio Felipe (Substitute: Matilde Corujo Fontes)

  • Tías: Carmen Gloria Rodríguez Rodríguez (Substitute: Nicolás Saavedra Sanginés)

  • Teguise: Myriam Jorge Camejo (Substitute: María Mar Boranat Mas)

  • San Bartolomé: Marlene Romero Machín (Substitute: Raúl de León de León)

  • Tinajo: Coraima María Morales Quintero

  • Haría: Bruno Santana Martínez (Substitute: Nuria Esther Acuña Pérez)

  • Yaiza: Óscar Manuel Noda González (Substitute: Águeda María Cedrés Rodríguez)


- General State Administration: Alfonso San Martín Pérez Ross (substitute: Ana María Hernández Álamo)

- Government of the Canary Islands: Mariano Hernández Zapata and Julieta Cristina Schallenberg Rodríguez (Substitutes: Gustavo Pestana Pérez and Julio Herrero Segura).

- Spanish MaB Committee: Francisco José Cantos Mengs (Substitute: Ignacio Achúcarro Leguina)

- Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge: María Isabel López Pérez (Substitute: Manuel Ángel Laguera García)

- César Manrique Foundation: Idoya Cabrera Delgado (Substitute: Esteban Armas Matallana)

- University of La Laguna: Carolina Castillo Ruiz (Substitute: Javier Díaz Peña)

- Fishing Business: Yara Guadalupe Toledo (Substitute: David Álvarez Hofmann)

- University of Las Palmas: Jin Taira Alonso (Substitute: Vicente Mirallave Izquierdo)

- Agriculture Associations: Domingo M. Peraza Hernández (Substitute: Santiago Padin Gurman)

- Unions (shared representation): Milagros Pérez Fernández and Ramón Pérez Farray

- Environmental Groups (shared representation) M.ª Antonia Perera Betancort and Alexis Rivera Medina

- Tourist business associations: José Luis Rubio Bordons (Substitute: Yaiza González Ramallo)

- Professional Associations (shared representation): Alberto Lasso Hernández, Onelia Nóbrega González and Guillermo Lasso Hernández

- Business: José Valle Martínez (Substitute: Carmen Martinón Ramírez)

- Neighborhood associations (Shared representation): Ricardo Ballesteros Iniesta, María Cecilia Jover and José Marcial Pérez Toledo.

- NGOs: Juan Cruz Sepúlveda (Substitute: Nieves Rosa Hernández Gorrín)

- Immigrant Groups: María Isabel Witter Nanguande (Substitute: José Eugenio Nsue Mangue)

- Hotel associations: Susana Pérez Represa (Substitute: Iris Berger).

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