The Council of Tenerife has updated the Master Plan for the Use and Management of the Rural Park of Anaga through a minor modification that will be submitted to public information for two months. This change is due to the need to regularize certain practices, some related to livestock and traditional agriculture, and others to sports. In this last section, the need for the Master Plan to expressly include the prohibition of cycling along the Anaga trails is expressed.
It is noted that “the use of trails for downhill cycling, due to the high speed that characterizes this activity, is generating an alarming safety problem for hikers who use them, to which are added the problems of conservation of the pavement of the trails due to the passage of bicycles. For all these reasons, the extension of the prohibition referring to bicycle traffic off roads and tracks in the Restricted Use Zones to the entire natural space is proposed. This means that bicycles can only circulate on the road and on the tracks, never on the trails or through the so-called exclusion zones.
In addition, when driving on the tracks, the speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour is eliminated, in order for it to be regulated downwards by the managers of the Rural Park.
The modification of the Master Plan also prohibits, since until now it did not include it, the express circulation of riding a quad through the Rural Park, so that article 42 is modified so that the practice of trial, enduro, motocross, quads is prohibited. or any type of activity of a similar nature that causes degradation of the natural environment.
In this intention to protect the natural environment, section 35 of that article 42 is also modified, in relation to the practice of hiking, so that it can only be done through the trails marked as such, being prohibited with character In general, walk outside trails and tracks. “With the prohibition of cross-country foot traffic, the damage that this activity is causing to the vegetation, the soil, the calm conditions of the fauna, etc., is mitigated, affecting conservation.”
Thus, the new wording of that section would read as follows: “The foot traffic of people outside the existing trails and tracks, except for reasons of management, conservation, research, security and emergency situations.”
Finally, with regard to sports events, the article that regulates them is modified in such a way that they cannot be authorized if they pose a risk to the values of the park.
