The environmental groups Save la Tejita, Ben Magec Ecologists in Action, ASIREM Network, Association for the Conservation of Canarian Biodiversity-ACBC, Canarina Foundation, Los Silos-Isla Baja Platform, Agents of Change, Ecologist Coordinator The corner-Ecologists in Action, Telesforo Bravo and Juan Coello Foundation, Assembly in Defense of Our Earth-ADNT and Tenerife Association of Friends of Nature-ATAN demand the Tenerife Council to make public the reports that supported the climb to Teide of the influencer TheGrefg in the company of the insular director of Natural Environment, Pedro Millán.
In a joint statement they point out that the explanation given by the Cabildo itself “creates doubts” given that ‘TheGrefg’ said in its videos published on social networks that he had climbed to the peak without having the relevant authorization.
For this reason, they ask the Council to send the authorization, if it exists, to the members of the board of trustees of the Teide National Park and the “formal communication” that should have been addressed to the management of the National Park informing about this activity and the extraordinary use of the cable car.
The groups also wonder “what activity related to the management of the National Park” was Pedro Millán carrying out that day and do not understand that the Cabildo justifies it with a possible ‘insular interest’, an exceptional route that requires a specific procedure and that only It is applied for certain purposes.
Furthermore, if it has been repeated on previous occasions, as the Council points out, they ask the corporation to clarify “what other occasions those have been, the dates on which they occurred and the declarations of insular interest issued on each of them.”
Along these lines, they also point out that the Board of Trustees of the Teide National Park is the body for public participation and that ensures compliance with the regulations, so, “if these reports exist, they must be sent to all members of the Board of Trustees and made public. to eliminate any kind of doubt.”
The groups also ask for reports that guarantee the safety of using the cable car on a day in which it could be affected by the wind and do not understand that the Cabildo ignores the content of the ‘TheGrefg’ videos if they were part of an advertising publication . “This is impossible to sustain, since a high-ranking member of the Cabildo, Mr. Pedro Millán, appears in the video,” they point out.
However, they maintain that there was no authorization to climb Teide and they regret the lack of transparency of the Cabildo, which decided to “keep silent” in the face of all the questions posed by the environmental spokesperson at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Teide National Park held on the 20th. from December.
For this reason, they have already carried out all the necessary procedures to formally request the information to which the Cabildo refers in its statement.
“REGREAT POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM” OF THE PSOE
The groups also criticize the “regrettable political opportunism” of the PSOE with this issue by requesting an extraordinary plenary session.
“We consider that we must have very few scruples and very little shame for the PSOE, the ruling party of the island-wide institution in the last term, to dare to ask for the protection of the national park, when they consented and promoted all types of contrary activities. to its conservation,” he indicates.
In this sense, they point out that the PSOE “is not exactly there to teach classes on respect for the environment” since after their mandate they left the natural spaces of Tenerife “in a deplorable state, particularly with regard to the national park.”
In fact, they point out that “they put pressure on the new PRUG to continue transforming Teide into an amusement park” and emphasize that “since the president of the PSOE of Tenerife is also the mayor of Adeje – José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga – it is clear which It is the concept that this party has of caring for the territory and respect for the natural heritage.”
