SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The environmental groups Save la Tejita, Ben Magec Ecologists in Action, ASIREM Network, Association for the Conservation of Canarian Biodiversity-ACBC, Canarina Foundation, Los Silos-Isla Baja Platform, Agents of Change, El Rincón Ecologist Coordinator-Ecologistas in Action, Fundación Telesforo Bravo and Juan Coello, Assembly in Defense of Our Earth-ADNT and Tenerife Association of Friends of Nature-ATAN demand that the Cabildo of Tenerife make public the reports that supported the climb to Teide of the influencer ‘TheGrefg’ in the company of the director island of Medio Natural, Pedro Millán.
In a joint statement they point out that the explanation given by the Cabildo itself “creates doubts” given that ‘TheGrefg’ said in his videos published on social networks that he had climbed the peak without having the relevant authorization.
For this reason, they ask the Cabildo to send the authorization, if it exists, to the members of the Teide National Park board and the “formal communication” that should have been addressed to the management of the Park.
National reporting on this activity and the extraordinary use of the cable car.
The groups also wonder “what activity related to the management of the National Park” was Pedro Millán carrying out that day and do not understand that the Cabildo justifies it with a possible ‘insular interest’, an exceptional route that requires a specific procedure and that only It is applied for certain purposes.
Furthermore, if it has been repeated on previous occasions, as the Cabildo points out, they ask the corporation to clarify “what other occasions those have been, the dates on which they occurred and the declarations of insular interest issued on each of them.”
Along these lines, they also point out that the Board of Trustees of the Teide National Park is the body for public participation and that ensures compliance with the regulations, so, “if these reports exist, they must send them to all members of the Board of Trustees and make them public. to eliminate any kind of doubt.”
The groups also ask for reports that guarantee the safety of using the cable car on a day in which it could be affected by the wind and do not understand that the Cabildo ignores the content of the ‘TheGrefg’ videos if they were part of an advertising publication . “This is impossible to sustain, since a high-ranking member of the Cabildo, Mr. Pedro Millán, appears in the video,” they point out.
However, they maintain that there was no authorization to climb Teide and regret the lack of transparency of the Cabildo, which decided to “keep silent” in the face of all the questions posed by the environmental spokesperson at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Teide National Park held on the 20th. from December.
For this reason, they have already carried out all the necessary procedures to formally request the information to which the Cabildo makes
reference in your statement.
“REGREAT POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM” OF THE PSOE
The groups also criticize the “regrettable political opportunism” of the PSOE with this issue by requesting an extraordinary plenary session.
“We believe that we must have very few scruples and very little
It is a shame that the PSOE, the ruling party of the island-wide institution in the last term, dares to ask for the protection of the national park, when they consented to and promoted all types of activities contrary to its conservation,” he indicates.
In this sense, they point out that the PSOE “is not exactly there to teach classes on respect for the environment” since after their mandate they left the natural spaces of Tenerife “in a deplorable state, particularly with regard to the national park.”
In fact, they point out that “they put unspeakable pressure so that the new PRUG would allow the Teide to continue being transformed into an amusement park” and they emphasize that “with the president of the PSOE of Tenerife also being the mayor of Adeje –José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga– it remains “it is clear what the concept that this party has of caring for the territory and respecting the natural heritage is.”
