SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 14 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Pacma Animalist Party has started a collection of signatures in order to regulate the use of pyrotechnics in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Thus, members of the political formation team will be located in different parts of the island to collect thousands of physical signatures before next November 10.
“We are tired of seeing the suffering to which the elderly, children with autism, babies and animals are subjected year after year without any type of protection from the institutions,” explains the provincial coordinator of the Animalist Party, Cristo Gil. .
More than 30 companies have already joined this initiative that have been established as collection points so that citizens can go to sign in all parts of the island.
“It has been announcing that we were going to do a massive collection of signatures to regulate and limit the use of pyrotechnics in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and people from all over the island, from other islands and even from the Peninsula have contacted us”, Gil points out.
From Pacma they maintain that the intention is to reach agreements with the town hall, in charge of managing noise in the municipal area, so that each year the use of firecrackers is more limited in terms of areas of use, dates, manipulation by minors and distance to urban centers or where it can disturb animals.
The contamination produced by the waste of the cartridges will also be discussed.
“There are a number of groups that are especially vulnerable and sensitive to noise, and every time a designated date arrives or there is a celebration, they have to run away,” says Gil.
This is specifically the case for young children, the elderly, people with autism and almost all animals.
Not in vain, dogs and cats suffer from serious panic attacks, escape and get lost or run over, or directly die from noise, as is the case with birds.
The political formation hopes to achieve, as has already been done in other Spanish municipalities, that pyrotechnics “become increasingly isolated” and its use more controlled, affecting the population as a whole as little as possible and increasingly betting on a “more silent”.
