The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, has asked the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the seven municipalities of the island to defend the camel sector after the campaign initiated by the environmental organization Swiss Fundación Franz Weber Canarian Camels was made public, to ask the companies that offer dromedary rides in Lanzarote to end this type of activity.
Likewise, Noda has requested that all public administrations on the island approve institutional declarations "supporting sustainable activity in Timanfaya and recalling its tourist and cultural value and historical contribution to the well-being of Lanzarote."
The southern leader has maintained that there is occurring "a new wave of attacks by entities and people who are unaware of the activity and yet intend to demonize the work of Uga's camel drivers and female camel drivers". Furthermore, he has demanded that institutions must make it "crystal clear that Lanzarote is united with the camel sector”.
In this regard, Noda has indicated that the island population “truly knows the value of the camel sector and the effort that male and female breeders make for the sustenance of the most important camel herd in Europe". At the same time, he added that "without the sustainable activity of camel rides in Timanfaya National Park, there would be no camels.”
In 2020, the Yaiza City Council transferred to the Cabildo a plenary agreement urging to the opening of a file so that the Island's camel herd would be declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage Asset.
Óscar Noda continued that “it is impossible to ignore the historical and preponderant role of the camel in farming work and in the construction of Lanzarote's island landscape, and today's productive, sustainable and regulated activity of a herd linked to tourism, which even deserved in 2013 the National Distinction from the Association of Municipalities with Territory in National Parks”.