Memoria 2002 - Fundación César Manrique

Institutional
Participation
FCM, member of the
Timanfaya National
Park Board
of Trustees
FCM, on the
Biosphere Reserve
Council Governing
Board
Other activities
Canary Island
Biodiversity Strategy
Production of
educational and
informative materials
Since January 1998, the FCM has had a seat on the Timanfaya
National Park Board of Trustees and as such has been
attending the periodic meetings of the park’s governing board.
In 2002, as in 2001, the Board considered the renovation of
the facilities on Hilario Islet and discussed the system for
accessing the national park, among other issues.
The issues discussed in the seven meetings held in 2002 were,
among others: adaptation of the PIOT to the Act on
Territorial Organisation, the Island Council’s allegations
against the Guidelines for General Organisation of the Tourist
Industry in the Canary Islands, the application of the
Lanzarote Strategy on the Biosphere, the creation of a
Scientific Panel, the “Canary Island Biodiversity Strategy” and
its impact on Lanzarote, the working proposal “Lanzarote in
the Biosphere 2. Exploration of new lines of action”, the
project to install oil rigs on the coasts of Lanzarote,
installation of an approach radar and construction of a
recreational port on the Berrugo coast at Blanca Beach.
The FCM was invited to participate in working sessions on the
Canary Island Biodiversity Strategy held on 20 and 21 May and
17 and 18 June, under the sponsorship of the Canary Island
Regional Government’s Department on Territorial Policy and
the Environment. The aim of these sessions was to develop a
process for integrating ideas and action to conserve Canary
biodiversity, enhance awareness of this resource and permit
its sustainable use.
The educational workbooks titled Getting to know the PIOT:
mission possible were presented on 26 February. With this
material the FCM aims to convey the importance of the PIOT
– Island Territorial Organisation Scheme – an instrument
providing Lanzarote society with a regulation that attempts to
harmonise human activity with the conservation of communal
territory. The FCM wants to share this idea with the
educational community and wants young people to have the
opportunity to acquire an understanding of this basic tool for
the management of the island territory where they live. These
workbooks, geared to teachers and pupils, were formulated
after a series of meetings with island secondary school
teachers held during the first six months of 2002.
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