The Telesforo Bravo-Juan Coello Foundation has denounced that last Saturday some musicians performed a concert in the Teide National Park with electric guitars and drums, despite the fact that it is a prohibited activity in the area, which even refused at the time to Tenerife Symphony Orchestra.
In its social networks, this Foundation, dedicated to scientific dissemination and environmental protection, has lamented that the Teide National Park “has gotten out of hand and to recover it again it will take much more than promises and good words”.
He affirms that there are more and more people who are not willing to respect the necessary limits for coexistence and the protection of the common heritage and points out that in the Master Plan for the Use and Management of the Natural Park it is indicated that in this natural space, the most important of the island, Natural Heritage of Humanity and European Diploma, it is forbidden to play music.
“There will be those who believe that it is exaggerated but it has its reason for being”, continues the Foundation, which explains that it is about enjoying the nature of the Park “without piped music, because it is not a concert hall, nor a bar where they have us to liven up the evening”.
It is about protecting the natural heritage and preserving it, it is not a recreational park, he continues, to remember that a few years ago in the Board of Trustees of the Park controversy was generated because the Cabildo wanted the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra to give a concert in the Llano de Ucanca .
“Fortunately sanity prevailed and Wolfredo Wildpret, Telesforo Bravo and the environmental groups managed to prevent it from being carried out,” adds the Foundation, which also indicates that a few days ago a visitor to the National Park “took out a bucio and began to play in Los Roques de García, and they told him immediately that he had to cease his activity”.
However, last Saturday a group with electric guitar and drums “put on a gig in Las Minas de San José and the concert was put together.”
The Foundation calls for more Environment agents and material means to monitor the Teide National Park, along with access control for private vehicles.
Saturday concert on Teide. Tenerife, Teide National Park. In this post-COVID era that we are experiencing, we think that there are more and more people who are not willing to respect the necessary limits for coexistence and the protection of common heritage. In the Master Plan for the Use and Management of what is said to be the most important natural space on the Island, a World Heritage Site and a European Diploma, it is forbidden to play music. There will be those who believe that it is exaggerated but it has its reason for being. It is about enjoying the nature of the Park without piped music, because it is not a concert hall, nor a bar where we have to liven up the evening. It is about protecting the natural heritage and preserving it, it is not a recreational park. A few years ago, in a patronage of the Park, a great controversy was generated because the Cabildo wanted the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra to give a great concert in the Llano de Ucanca. Fortunately sanity prevailed and Wolfredo Wildpret, Telesforo Bravo and the environmental groups managed to prevent it from happening. The other day a person who took out a bucio and began to play in Los Roques de García, was immediately told that he had to cease his activity. However, as our friend the biologist Carlos Silva says, the National Park has become a “Lorca” Park, because from five in the afternoon and on many weekends, anything is possible. Look at this group that put on a gig in Las Minas de San José, with electric guitar and drums. It was five in the afternoon, five o’clock in the afternoon as Lorca would write in his “Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías”. It was Saturday in Las Minas de San José and the concert was put together. The Teide National Park has gotten out of hand and in order to get it back it will take much more than promises and good words Realities will be needed in the form of more environmental agents and more material means to monitor the Park, in addition to the already unavoidable control of access to private vehicles. ·#pasasinhuella Pasasinhuella Natural Environment Cabildo de Tenerife
Posted by Telesforo Bravo Juan Coello Foundation on Tuesday, February 15, 2022
