The Canarian Ecologist Federation Ben Magec celebrates and supports the citizen assembly that took place on May 14 in the Puertito de Armeñimepromoted by the groups Salvar La Tejita and ATAN, in which hundreds of people expressed their resounding rejection of the tourism macro-project that aims to urbanize one of the best-preserved coastal strips on the southern coast of Tenerife.
Puertito de Armeñime: a luxury tourism project puts ecologists in check to save the last uncrowded beach in Tenerife
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Ben Magec-Ecologistas en Acción considers it “regrettable” that public institutions in the Canary Islands “put themselves at the service of business lobbies in the tourism industry and continue betting on the occupation of new land for the implementation of hotels and residential tourist complexes, presenting it as a sustainable project the same predatory model as always, now with a marked elitist character. A model that, in addition to generating serious environmental impacts in the territory, excludes the Canary Islands, increasing pressure on a scarce island territory, already socially collapsed and environmentally very fragmented and deteriorated, “they criticized in a statement.
The claim to urbanize Puertito de Adeje, occupying 437,000 square meters for tourist use, in which “there has been a total lack of information and transparency”, is for Ben Magec “a flagrant case of political irresponsibility and business greed, It is one of the areas in the south of Tenerife that still preserves its coastline free of hotel construction and that still maintains the natural heritage in a good state of conservation, which will end up degrading as has happened in many other places after the tourist occupation.
It should be remembered that the luxury urban project, called Cradle of the Soul, is financed by two Belgian investment families, Vandermarliere and Van Biervliet, and is intended to be located in a place of great ecological value, which is part of the Teno Rasca Conservation Area and is a Habitat of Community Interest, located next to the Site of Scientific interest La Caleta. “In addition, the Puertito de Adeje is one of those endearing places with its particular idiosyncrasy, of which there are fewer and fewer, in which the Canary Islands do not feel excluded by tourist pressure, as occurs in many other spaces of our land”, environmentalists continue in the note.
“From the Canarian Ecologist Federation Ben Magec we show our support for all the actions that will take place to stop the construction of this tourist macro-complex that we consider totally unnecessary and contrary to the feelings of Canarian society. Canarias has a limit, not one more bed. Save the Canary Islands from speculation and collapse”, they conclude.
