The deputy of the Común and former mayor of Güímar, Rafael Yanes, met with the group of environmentalists Tabona, who reported the non-compliance by the Government of the Canary Islands with the Law of Expansion of the Malpaís de Güímar Reserve of 2006, just the same week that the Parliament of the Canary Islands approved the expansion of the Malpaís de Rasca nature reserve, in the municipality of Arona, which would go from three million square meters to cover 4.6 million.
The representatives of Tabona request that the Güímar City Council comply with the sentence of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) and annul the reparcelling projected on the southeast area of the municipality. At the same time, they request that a new Partial and Compensation Plan be drawn up that contemplates the due protection of this Natural Reserve.
The president of the Collective, Mónica Díaz, insists that “it is necessary that the laws are complied with and that this valuable ecosystem be protected to the maximum, that in the Malpaís de Güímar there is not an inch without protection. They have left this very special and fragile space defenseless, allowing attacks due to inaction and non-compliance with the Law that they are obliged to comply with, allowing deterioration, after deterioration”.
The Common deputy promised to ask the Government of the Canary Islands about the breach of the Second Transitory Provision. On the other hand, he will request the Güímar City Council for the Partial Plan and its express compliance with ruling 194 of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands in the southern area of the municipality.
For their part, the members of the collective will present two complaints in the Common Council denouncing the situation.
three kilometers
The Malpaís de Güímar is located between the path of El Socorro -thanks to its declaration by BIC, as it is the Bajada de la Virgen pass, the expansion of the Industrial Estate could be contained- and El Puertito, and from the TF-1 to the coast, having inside the volcano commonly called Montaña Grande, 176 meters high and 300 meters in diameter and 50 meters deep, whose eruption gave rise to the spectacular Malpaís of about three square kilometers, which was declared a natural area of interest national in 1987 and reclassified as a Special Natural Reserve of Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands in 1994.
