“The work is stopped today.” This is what the Salvar la Tejita association affirms this Friday on its social networks, after several weeks of protests in the Puertito de Adeje and this Thursday they stood in front of centennial cardones and viborinas before the advance of the excavators because they are protected species .
The activists chain themselves and paralyze a part of the works of the tourism macroproject of Puertito de Adeje
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On August 11 they also managed to stop the works for the tourism macro-project baptized as Cuna del Alma, in the south of Tenerife. That day, they woke up chained in a strategic place to prevent the advance of the shovels and avoid what they understand as a “crime against heritage, culture, biodiversity and archaeological value.”
Last July, the Cabildo de Tenerife paralyzed around 2% of the works of this tourism macro-project in the south of the island, financed by Belgian businessmen, after the Teguico Heritage Association will denounce the presence of archaeological remains in the area and their possible destruction. Patrimony then carried out two inspections and verified that the works had damaged and destroyed remains, moreover, irreversibly.
