The group of activists that was camped next to the works of the tourist project Cradle of the Soulin the Little port of Adeje (Tenerife)as a form of protest against the urbanization of that coastal area of the island (one of the few without mass tourism) has announced this Wednesday that they are lifting the camp “cautiously”. They had been there since early summer, when some of them chained themselves to a mechanical shovel to prevent damage to an archaeological site.
The Canarian Government orders the precautionary stoppage of the works of the Cuna del Alma project, in the Puertito de Adeje
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On the platform’s social networks save la tejitathe activists have exposed that they leave the ravine “free for nature to continue growing” once the project has been temporarily paralyzed after verifying the Department of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands, following a complaint from these activists, the presence of a population of a protected plant (the sad viborina) that did not appear included in the reports presented by the promoters of the project to request the licenses.
“We will continue to monitor, the fight does not end here”, explained one of the activists: “They are waiting for us on other fronts”, she added before mentioning other environmental struggles on the Islands such as Chira Soria (Gran Canaria), the Motor Circuit ( Tenerife) and Fuerteventura (alluding to the project dreamland). “It’s not just El Puertito, it’s the entire Canary Islands”, they shouted at the end of the video.
The Ministry of Ecological Transition has also opened a file against Cuna del Alma for having started the works without an environmental impact assessment of the project.
Statement from the Stop Cuna del Alma Camping: Precautionary lifting of the camp.
“It has been a place where we have been able to verify that this world is full of hope.”
Text complete: https://t.co/uXFrAREEh6 pic.twitter.com/W4z0Ufq0P4– Save La Tejita (@salvartejita) December 1, 2022
This is the second precautionary stoppage of the project after last July the Cabildo de Tenerife issued an order, which affected only 2% of the land of more than 420,000 square meters, when verifying that it had been destroyed an important archaeological siteas the Tegüico Heritage Association had denounced.
Cuna del Alma, intends to develop with hotels and 420 luxury villas (among other infrastructures) more than 400,000 square meters in a ravine and beach in the south of Tenerife, it has two negative reports (from 2014 and 2017) and one sanction proposal by the General Directorate of Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands for the destruction of the archaeological site.
