The Archaeological Museum of Fuerteventura yesterday hosted the presentation of the project ‘Climate Change, paleontological evolution through the fossils of Fuerteventura, human intervention and environmental quality’, an investigation promoted by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands in collaboration with the Fuerteventura Town Hallhe Council of Tenerife and the company Birding Canary Islands. This research will be directed and commissioned by Esther Martín, doctor and curator of Paleontology-Geology at the Museum of Natural Sciences of Tenerife.
As explained by the regional general director of Fight against Climate Change and the Environment, José Domingo Fernández, This initiative aims to show not only the natural climatic changes of the past through the paleontological record, but also to reveal the current climate change caused by human activity.
The regional representative highlighted that current climate change, unlike historical ones, entails other additional risks because it is intensified by anthropogenic activity and its negative impacts have social and economic consequences.
While, Esther Martín commented that this project will show the evolution of the climate in Fuerteventura through geological time. To do this, they will study paleontological sites and their fossils to interpret the historical data that is extracted and, in turn, study how to mitigate current climate change.
Evolution of the climate in Fuerteventura through geological time, sticking to the first indications of the geological history of the island through paleontological sites and fossils, which indicate what the climate was like.
In this sense, the Archaeological Museum collects data on the societies that inhabited the island over the last 2,000 years.
