The council of Environment of the Arona City Council looking for volunteers to form the Environmental Patrol Help the Cory’s Shearwaters reach the sea. With the motto Join Cinderella Night 2023, The main objective of the aronera corporation is to rescue injured seabirds in areas of greater risk due to excessive lighting.
Cinderella’s Shearwater has become key to raising awareness of the population in terms of defense and conservation of biodiversity. This species, common on all the islands, takes its first flight towards the sea between the months of October and November.
The growing urbanization on the coast has affected their habitat and has caused that when they undertake that first flight, at night and guided by the stars, they confuse the lighting of houses, streets and buildings, and collide by accident, falling to the ground from where they cannot. They can take flight again.
The activity is divided into two days, one night and one day. The Night Environmental Patrol has as its epicenter Paseo Las Vistas, in Los Cristianos, where it will carry out its activity this Friday, 6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.s. One day later, the Daytime Shearwater Release will take place. In this case, from Costa del Silencio, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. this Saturday. People interested in participating as volunteers in this initiative can register in the following form: https://forms.gle/bPUkEeQReUHwfpy57 -limited places-.
Clari Pérez, first deputy mayor and Councilor for the Environment, highlighted that “we want to involve our neighbors in the activities we carry out at the City Council and good proof of this is the rescue of birds like the Cory’s Shearwater. Furthermore, in this way we encourage environmental volunteering in Arona.”
Activity Join Cinderella Night 2023 It has the support of the Arona City Council, Cabildo de Tenerife, Somos Arona Quiérela, Rumbo Ziday, La Tahonilla Wildlife Recovery Center and the Environmental Participation and Volunteering Office of Tenerife.
