The Yaiza City Council highlighted at the meeting between the different institutions of the island, Seprona agents and companies and associations dedicated to excursions or rental of quads and buggies held this Monday in the Cabildo its demand for "absolute control" of these practices.
The council believes that the meeting, in which "initial solutions" such as an information campaign proposed by the Cabildo councillor were put on the table for the moment, was "productive in the way of reaching consensus on the regulation" of these excursions. However, after that meeting, the Councilor for the Environment of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, has stressed that "no one can ignore that more than 83 percent of the territory of our municipality is affected by some form of protection and that the vast majority of companies that organize excursions in buggies and quads operate precisely in Yaiza". Thus, Noda maintains that "it is true that we must show the beauty of our landscape to those who visit us, but without it entailing its deterioration or, even worse, its destruction".
In this way, the City Council has indicated in its press release that it advocates for that "absolute control" to "avoid damage to the landscape, agricultural activity and inconvenience to residents in general". "Yaiza at the time conveyed this concern to the Cabildo, warning of the negative effects on agriculture and the landscape that the passage of vehicles through very sensitive agricultural areas such as the Vega de Temuime, one of the most punished by the circulation of said vehicles, has been generating," the City Council emphasizes.
"The southern City Council shares the request for specification of routes or possible routes, technical data sheet of the vehicles, knowledge of the type of contracts that companies establish with their clients and whether the excursions are guided or not, for the study of the competent authorities", he points out. The City Council concludes by emphasizing that "in any case, the local Administration ratifies its position of avoiding traffic through any protected area or agricultural exploitation".
