Councilor José Antonio Valbuena highlights the responsibility of the Government of the Canary Islands to execute programs to protect flora and fauna, as well as adopt measures that favor biological balance.
The Department of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands has allocated 1,939,519.95 euros to a strategic wildlife conservation project in the Canary Islands, entrusted to the public company Territorial and Environmental Management and Planning (Gesplan). The amount is distributed in two annual installments of 1,385,075.07 euros for 2020 and 554,444.88 euros for 2021. The execution period ends on December 21, 2021.
The regional councilor responsible for the area, José Antonio Valbuena, explained that "it is the responsibility of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and, specifically, of the Ministry, to execute programs for the protection of species of flora and fauna, as well as to adopt measures to maintain and reconstruct the biological balance, and to develop, process and execute plans for the recovery of endangered and vulnerable species."
“The fragmentation suffered by the Canarian habitats and the presence of exotic wild species require the adoption of urgent measures to protect population centers, in addition to actions that mitigate or stop the population decline that many island endemisms are currently registering,” stressed Valbuena.
Thanks to this financing, strategic environmental management plans for the terrestrial environment in the Canary Islands will be prepared, documents analyzing possible negative effects on the habitats and protected terrestrial and marine species of the Archipelago and the impact on their state of conservation, as well as technical advisory work in strategic documents, programs and plans with an impact on the Canary archipelago.
Management actions for protected species will also be carried out, strategic actions in the areas of conservation of wild flora and fauna of the Canary Islands and, also, those related to the arrival, expansion and mitigation of exotic species in the Archipelago.
Other objectives are updating the information from the Canary Islands Natural Inventory Bank or integrating environmental problems into other sectoral policies such as tourism, education or agriculture, among others.
