The council During the first six months of the year, it will promote the reinforcement of control and surveillance in the island’s natural spaces through the hiring of personnel. It is the three-point agreement reached by the plenary, at the initiative of People’s Partyalthough consensus was reached with the text of the amendment drawn up by the Minister for the Environment and Security, Isabel García. The commitment establishes a term until March to convene 111 positions of professional operators of the environment. It also determines June as the limit to incorporate an undefined number of environmental agents, although the figure could be between eight and ten.
Isabel García announces that the Human Resources area of the Island Institution and its department are working in a coordinated manner to summon 111 positions for environmental workers in the first quarter of the year. Of these, 47 are open access plus a reserve list and 34 added as part of interim staff stabilization. To this we must add the 30 of the year 2021 also to reinforce this process of fixing the job.
The counselor values: «The reserve list is fundamental because when I came to the position there was not one for any job. Neither biologists nor engineers, nor architects nor anything at all» In fact, she adds, «to send an agent to the south on work control for the area of La Caleta and Montaña Roja, We have had to use the resource of alleging an excess of hours in his usual task and that it be possible to entrust that task to him. For this reason, I insist, having the reserve list is a fundamental tool.”
environmental agents.
The second process underway has a six-month deadline and will provide environmental agents for protected natural areas. It is about activating a call that, says García, “it stopped due to the pandemic”. He did not want to advance the exact figure because the negotiation with the unions is pending first, but consulted sources establish that it will be between eight or ten. As the second point of agreement of the motion, “the modification and adaptation of the List of Job Posts (RPT) during the 2022 financial year in order to guarantee adequate provision in our natural spaces” is committed.
Teide National Park.
The minister García adds to these two processes a third one that is pending the response of the Ministry of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands, which is directed by the socialist José Antonio Valbuena. This is the change in the RPT for this area of security and surveillance inside the Teide National Park. The Cabildo has requested that the Use and Management Plan that is currently being drawn up contemplate, according to García, «three times as many environmental agents, those who can identify and sanction, to go from the current five, insufficient to control 19,000 hectares, to fifteen ». A way to deal with improper uses and attacks on the landscape that are frequently repeated.
Green employment.
The counselor appeals to young people because “we are on a path to promote green employment” and “this field of environmental training opens up many possibilities of being able to access the labor market. It’s a goal.” In fact, the third point of the unanimously approved motion agrees to “promote information and awareness campaigns in educational centers on the Island as a key tool to improve the public use of natural spaces.”
political coherence.
Isabel García describes the Popular Party’s motion as “opportunistic” for proposing something “in which we are already working.” She asks for “political coherence” because “they did not support a budget for this year in which all the items are included to face this process.” Despite everything, she values ”the final consensus obtained.”
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The PP values the unanimous agreement to guarantee the necessary personnel for the maintenance of natural spaces. Councilor Valentín González Évora, who presented the original motion, recalls that “natural spaces account for almost 50% of the island’s surface.” That is why he understands that “it is necessary to have the necessary means to improve their public use.” For the popular it is of “vital importance” that “the Cabildo takes charge of its powers in the field of surveillance and conservation, with the guarantee of the balance between this aspect and the recreational and educational use of the same.”
That is why they consider it “necessary” to implement campaigns “with the aim of involving students and citizens, in general, in achieving a more sustainable and clean environment.”
González welcomes the unanimous agreement of all the political parties so that the Natural Environment and Security Management area convenes, during the first quarter of this year, the extraordinary staff stabilization processes.
González Évora underlines that “our formation has repeatedly denounced the deterioration suffered by many of the natural spaces of our Island, such as the Montaña Roja Nature Reserve, in the municipality of Granadilla, or the Teide National Park itself”.
The PP adviser warns that the natural spaces in Tenerife cover almost 1,000 square kilometers, “which represents 48.6% of the island’s surface”, a fact “that cannot be ignored by this Cabildo, which, in most of the cases, it is competent in the conservation.
The popular councilor, finally, insists on the importance of information and awareness campaigns with actions whose objective is to work for a more sustainable and clean environment.
The most recent nonsense on Teide
January 1
Until playing football
Good weather summons the Teide National Park. On New Year’s, a picnic and an impromptu soccer match near the Llano de Ucanca are denounced. The people, Canarians, alleged “not knowing that they could not do that activity there”
January 2
Graffiti on the Izaña road
The next day, the collective Pasa sin Huella notices a graffiti on the fragile limestone on the Izaña highway.
January 30th
footprints in the snow
Again snow call effect. The massive presence of people leaves traces of rubbish and even car mats.
February 1st
On forbidden paths
Several people on bicycles go down the slope on a trail where it is prohibited.
