No Incineration Tenerife demands the temporary closure of all accesses to a protected natural area in the south of Tenerife, located between Arona and San Miguel de Abonafor stop its deterioration due to the proliferation of roads that “at some points they look like real avenues”.
Its about Yellow Mountain Natural Monument that, according to what this group denounces in its blog, “it does not seem reasonable to allow indefinitely and, without taking any control measurethat the natural values of Montaña Amarilla, in Costa del Silencio, simply disappear due to uncontrolled access by dozens of paths”.
“There is no right to allow everything to be destroyed in this way. Not everything is money or highways or high-speed circuits to continue promoting crucifixes in the gutters. This land would need to take seriously the defense of our natural heritage and cultural”, they expose.
“If we want yellow mountain continue to have value natural monument it must be closed for a few years and that, little by little, it recovers with the least possible intervention,” they say.
Description
The Environment area of the Cabildo points out that the Montaña Amarilla Natural Monument is “a singular cone of phreatomagmatic origin (eruption in which lava comes into contact with water) and partially dismantled by marine erosion. This erosion has uncovered a fossil dune in the lava of the coastal cliff. It is the southernmost of a series of aligned volcanic cones, standing out for the striking light color of its volcanic materials, as well as for its underwater eruptive origin, little represented on the island.”
It was declared a natural monument and an ecologically sensitive area by Autonomous Law 12/94, subsequently merged with the Canary Islands Territory Planning Law through Legislative Decree 1/2000. The protected area covers a total of 27.8 hectares distributed between the municipalities of Arona and San Miguel de Abona.
