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13-12-2023, 06:58 PM
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'La Oliva Environmental Attitude' seeks to raise awareness of the natural environment.
La Oliva renews its environmental signage to protect the environment and encourage recycling
In its efforts to move towards a more sustainable and respectful municipality, the City Council of La Oliva has completed a campaign to renovate and update its environmental signage. The objectives are, mainly, "to raise awareness to avoid practices that can cause damage to the natural environment, and also to provide the necessary information to conserve it," explained the Councilor for Environment and Tourism, David Fajardo.
Within the framework of the La Oliva Environmental Attitude campaign, the Department of the Environment has renewed the signage in several languages in those areas of the natural environment that, despite being isolated, receive a high traffic of people. This measure provides a guide for visitors and residents, indicating permitted and prohibited uses (including the penalties for infractions), and offering information about the environment that contributes to improving environmental education.
All these measures, as well as the recent creation of a service of environmental guides in several languages, aim to "improve the coexistence between human beings and their natural environment. What we seek is to conserve the biodiversity, the environment, and the richness of the landscape of La Oliva, values that are appreciated by both visitors and those of us who live in Fuerteventura. With information and education, we seek to make the community feel a deeper connection with the island, and that this contributes to its long-term conservation," said the mayor of La Oliva, Isaí Blanco.
Rhodoliths, paths, engravings and stone cairns
The signage of the La Oliva Environmental Attitude campaign has, among many other objectives, to correct practices that in recent times have caused damage to the natural environment, such as the plundering of rhodoliths, shells and sand, making engravings in ravines, the erection of stone cairns, or the transit on foot, by bicycle or motor vehicles outside the enabled paths.
In addition to renewing the old posters in this regard, "new signage has been added in those areas where it was necessary to act," such as the Calderón Hondo, "a point where measures were demanded," said David Fajardo. There, the signage reinforces the indication not to leave the enabled trails, and signs have been installed to prevent rubbish from being thrown, as there were areas where waste was accumulating, which have been cleaned and signposted".
In these areas of high natural sensitivity, such as the Jable ravines, the signage reflects the prohibition of making fires, leaving the trails, throwing rubbish, emptying motorhome tanks, extracting material from the environment or making engravings, among others.
Other environmentally threatened points that have been marked are the coastal areas affected by the extraction or alteration of rhodoliths, or the Tostón Lighthouse in El Cotillo, where the prohibition of making stone mounds that alter the habitat and landscape is recalled.
Recycling signage in Corralejo
The Environment and Cleaning areas of the City Council of La Oliva have collaborated to redistribute and signpost several selective collection points in Corralejo, where residents and tourists deposit their recycling waste (paper, glass and cardboard).
Due to traffic conditions, and the fact that selective collection trucks can only do the operation on one side, the City Council of La Oliva has found it necessary to relocate a series of recycling containers that were previously located next to those for household garbage. "That is why posters have been installed at these points informing with a map where the selective containers are now, always in order to facilitate information, so that citizens continue to recycle," Fajardo said.
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'La Oliva Environmental Attitude' seeks to raise awareness of the natural environment.
La Oliva renews its environmental signage to protect the environment and encourage recycling
In its efforts to move towards a more sustainable and respectful municipality, the City Council of La Oliva has completed a campaign to renovate and update its environmental signage. The objectives are, mainly, "to raise awareness to avoid practices that can cause damage to the natural environment, and also to provide the necessary information to conserve it," explained the Councilor for Environment and Tourism, David Fajardo.
Within the framework of the La Oliva Environmental Attitude campaign, the Department of the Environment has renewed the signage in several languages in those areas of the natural environment that, despite being isolated, receive a high traffic of people. This measure provides a guide for visitors and residents, indicating permitted and prohibited uses (including the penalties for infractions), and offering information about the environment that contributes to improving environmental education.
All these measures, as well as the recent creation of a service of environmental guides in several languages, aim to "improve the coexistence between human beings and their natural environment. What we seek is to conserve the biodiversity, the environment, and the richness of the landscape of La Oliva, values that are appreciated by both visitors and those of us who live in Fuerteventura. With information and education, we seek to make the community feel a deeper connection with the island, and that this contributes to its long-term conservation," said the mayor of La Oliva, Isaí Blanco.
Rhodoliths, paths, engravings and stone cairns
The signage of the La Oliva Environmental Attitude campaign has, among many other objectives, to correct practices that in recent times have caused damage to the natural environment, such as the plundering of rhodoliths, shells and sand, making engravings in ravines, the erection of stone cairns, or the transit on foot, by bicycle or motor vehicles outside the enabled paths.
In addition to renewing the old posters in this regard, "new signage has been added in those areas where it was necessary to act," such as the Calderón Hondo, "a point where measures were demanded," said David Fajardo. There, the signage reinforces the indication not to leave the enabled trails, and signs have been installed to prevent rubbish from being thrown, as there were areas where waste was accumulating, which have been cleaned and signposted".
In these areas of high natural sensitivity, such as the Jable ravines, the signage reflects the prohibition of making fires, leaving the trails, throwing rubbish, emptying motorhome tanks, extracting material from the environment or making engravings, among others.
Other environmentally threatened points that have been marked are the coastal areas affected by the extraction or alteration of rhodoliths, or the Tostón Lighthouse in El Cotillo, where the prohibition of making stone mounds that alter the habitat and landscape is recalled.
Recycling signage in Corralejo
The Environment and Cleaning areas of the City Council of La Oliva have collaborated to redistribute and signpost several selective collection points in Corralejo, where residents and tourists deposit their recycling waste (paper, glass and cardboard).
Due to traffic conditions, and the fact that selective collection trucks can only do the operation on one side, the City Council of La Oliva has found it necessary to relocate a series of recycling containers that were previously located next to those for household garbage. "That is why posters have been installed at these points informing with a map where the selective containers are now, always in order to facilitate information, so that citizens continue to recycle," Fajardo said.
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