SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A total of 154 accredited professionals have requested the definitive stoppage of the works on Cuna del alma, the luxury urbanization that has been built in the vicinity of Puertito de Armeñime, in Adeje, since last May.
To this end, they recently registered with the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Adeje City Council a document in which they ask the presidents of the Canary Islands and the island and the mayor of the southern municipality of Tenerife to restore the space affected by the works and the revision of the municipal PGOU so as to allow the conservation of a space with high environmental and patrimonial values.
In the arguments that support this petition, the document recalls that the technical reports related to the heritage values of the area that justified the pertinent authorizations omitted decisive information regarding the cultural and natural heritage (archaeological site and species of special protection -Echium triste Svent. subsp. nivariense (Svent.) Bramwell-, findings found later by independent experts.For this reason, they consider that the authorizations should be reconsidered and new official studies should be carried out, with more guarantees than the previous ones.
In addition, they underline that the space occupied by this tourist project is “one of the last traditional coastal redoubts in the southwest of Tenerife, it has a high scenic value and also its realization would negatively affect the contiguous protected natural spaces; the Site of Scientific Interest of La Caleta and the ZEC Teno-Rasca Maritime Strip”.
The petition is signed exclusively by qualified people in one of the areas linked to the project, a profile that aims to answer the arguments of the administrations to continue with this project. Among the profiles who sign the petition are professionals in Biology (19%), History, Geography and Archeology (12%), Tourism (11%), Economy (10%), Environmental Education (9%), Anthropology (8% ) and Law (5%).
Thus, among the signatories are researchers and university professors such as the professors of the University of La Laguna Federico Aguilera Klink (Applied Economics, National Prize for Economics and Environment 2004, retired); Alberto Galván Tudela (honorary of Social Anthropology); José María Fernández-Palacios (Ecology); Elena Sánchez Jordán (Civil Law); Juan Sánchez García (Economics, retired) and Serafín Corral Quintana (Applied Economics).
They are joined by the doctors and professors of the ULL in Archeology: Cristo M. Hernández Gómez; Economy: Rosa María Lorenzo Alegría, Cándido Román Cervantes; Francisco Javier Amador Morera, Yeray Hernández González; Geography: Irène Dupuis, Luis Manuel Jerez Darias, Mercedes Arranz Lozano, Víctor Onésimo Martín Martín; Biology: Victoria Eugenia Martin Osorio: Anthropology -specializing in Heritage and Tourism- Ramón Hernández Armas. Anthropologist specialized in heritage and tourism. From the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), the doctor and professor of Geography Mercedes de los Ángeles Rodríguez Rodríguez.
Also noteworthy is the participation of the ornithologist and naturalist Rubén Barone, member of the Interuniversity Research Group on Island Ecology and Biogeography of the University of Tenerife; the retired architect, former director of the Rural Park of Teno, Abel Herrera García, the retired doctor of Biology José García Casanova, the lawyer Pedro Fernández Arcila, the expert in sustainable tourism Jonay Izquierdo Trujillo and him. geographer from the ULL and high school teacher Juan Diego Amador Rivero.
This initiative was born on October 20 with the purpose of presenting this application within a month, with the conviction that it is possible and desirable to contribute to a true sustainable development of Tenerife with projects that do not imply deterioration of the insular heritage and to support initiatives in favor of the real diversification of the Tenerife and Canary Islands economy and independence from abroad in order to avoid the increase of a tourist accommodation plant already disproportionate in relation to the area and population of the Island and its natural resources.
All this, accompanied by a reflection on the fact that the necessary legal certainty is not achieved when the serious errors that occurred in the authorization process of this project are committed, and it is achieved with rigorous compliance with legal procedures, without overlooking those errors. .
The collection of signatures is based on the principles of environmental law of prevention and precaution, which make it essential to immediately paralyze all the works of this project, until a final determination is made to prevent them in order to adequately preserve the heritage values of the place.
In addition, the signatories underline that these decisions must be made with the pertinent legal procedures, guided by the fact that the law establishes that the local, insular and autonomous administration, each one in its competences, are the only ones responsible for this serious situation, and the only ones that can correct it.
