Biosphere Reserve Diploma comes to Fuerteventura from UNESCO

The Director General of National Parks hands diploma to Mario Cabrera

The diploma from UNESCO declaraing Fuerteventura as a Biosphere Reserve, at the ceremony held (April 30th 2010) at the seaside promenade of Puerto del Rosario in the framework of Atlantic 10th Conference on the Environment.

Mario Cabrera President of the Cabildo of Fuerteventura, received a diploma from the hands of Olga Beniandrés, director general of the Autonomous National Parks, in a ceremony attended by President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, and the minister of Environment Environment Chapter, Natalia Evora, especially noting the presence of the Director of the Division of Earth Sciences and UNESCO / MAB Secretariat (Man and Biosphere), Natarajan Ishwaran.

Mario Cabrera said the Biosphere Reserve has come to Fuerteventura with a commitment to "make compatible economic development of the island with the sensitivity that is our territory and our landscape, something amazing when only a few decades ago people had to leave Fuerteventura to seek a livelihood and where, in recent years, we lived through a stage of development very little control. The diploma of the Biosphere Reserve comes as a compromise, but especially as a tool that will mark a before and after in how to deal with the treatment of our territory and our development. "

The President thanked UNESCO for the recognition, the Ministry supported the proposal and scientists and researchers present at the event to celebrate the Atlantic Conference on the Environment, "all the contributions that have been going on for ten years to help us expand our view and appreciate the natural value of a territory that once was considered as a succession of boards, and now is on track to host a National Park, because today we can boldly say that we want to follow living in the tourism industry, but knowing that to do so we have to protect our territory. "

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