SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The ‘Anaga Biofest’ expands its offer with a spring-summer edition, prior to the traditional autumn event, in which you can enjoy a wide program with twelve activities that will start this Saturday and will last until June 18 and includes the incorporation of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The three venues for this edition will be located in Taganana, Pedro Álvarez and El Batán –Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Laguna and Tegueste respectively– and the traditional autumn edition runs from October 31 to November 5, coinciding with the commemoration of the ‘International Day of Biosphere Reserves’ on November 3.
This third edition is one more step to endorse the commitment to a territorial management model and to everything that this important international declaration represents, “focusing on its people, its environment, its traditions and its sustainable development”, the organization details. in a note.
The ‘Anaga Biofest’ has managed to become a benchmark festival for the sector that in the last edition had the participation of some 1,000 people.
This positive impact on the environment has helped the ‘Anaga Biofest’ to have the recognition of the MaB Spain Program of UNESCO and the Spanish Network of Biosphere Reserves, through the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, being deserving of one of the awards in the 2022 Biosphere Recognition category for ‘Environmental commitment in sustainable economic and social development’.
In addition to this recognition, he was chosen last year to be presented as a model of sustainable development at the ‘VI National Ecotourism Congress’ held in October in the Mariñas Coruñesas Biosphere Reserve (Galicia).
This work philosophy also had local recognition by the Cabildo de Tenerife, through its insular Tourism area, which awarded it the distinction of ‘Best Good General Sustainable Tourism Practice’ during the ‘Sustainable Tourism Practices 2021’ contest. ‘.
Following the line of past editions, the routes offered are aimed at different profiles, depending on their theme and content, as well as the degree of difficulty they can offer.
On Saturday, the center of El Batán will be the gateway to a range of activities that will debut with three trails of varying intensity and difficulty.
On Sunday, the neighborhood of Pedro Álvarez (Tegueste) will take over to give way to three other activities of diverse nature and content, while the last weekend will be the turn of Taganana.
