New environmental information services at the Calderón Hondo volcano

The Tourism and Environmental Council of La Oliva's Ayuntamiento has launched a new environmental information service at Calderón Hondo, to ensure that visitors can enjoy this exceptional natural environment in a responsibly and respectfully. The objective is to preserve the natural wealth of the area and a group of multilingual environmental guides were created to assist and educate tourists. Those measures aim at counteracting harmful practices that affect the area, such as circulation outside of designated paths, inappropriate waste disposal, alteration of the land with the construction of stone cairns, or unauthorised carvings and feeding wildlife. The Tourism and Environment councillor, David Fajardo, expressed his concern regarding the environmental threat which impacts the island's natural wealth. “During the short period of our management, we have taken immediate actions with the creation of environmental orientation guides. Those guides will be available during August and September as a pilot project with a perspective that is aimed at the future. Our objective is to reduce the impact of human activity in this area which is so delicate, ensuring that the mountain doesn't become a maze of uncontrolled paths outside of the authorised ones”. As a response to this initiative, the plan is to install signs at the beginning of the path leading to Calderón Hondo, informing visitors about essential regulations for the protection of the environment. The slogan of the initiative is “La Oliva Environmental Attitude”, which aims at providing information and raising awareness, as an essential step towards a responsible and sustainable tourism model.