Worst Fires in Gran Canaria:
Great Canaria is the most populated island, together with Tenerife, from the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, north-west side of the Sahara desert, a few kilometers away from Africa shores, though it has always been connected to Spain and all the European countries since it was conquered in the 15th century by the Kingdom of Castille.
It was one of the most rich in wood of laurel forest, water and all kind of supplies for Columbus to dock before his arrival in New Indias (that is America) in his New World's travels. This, with the help of the Atlantic's curved sea stream towards the west, helped Columbus' vessels to dock here in most of the travels to America.
After the mid-twentieth centuries' plans for stopping the desertification and lack of vegetation, which was planting laurel hundreds of endemic pine trees, together with eucalyptuses and other species.
In this 21st century, the island suffered from the lack of interest on the agriculture and local livestock like never before, so the valleys and dry rests of vegetation were cleaned just by this little poor sector, against the rich powerful tourist sector, always overprotected by politicians and all the other upper-class of investors.
This way, a few little sparks from an electric saw for metals, made one of the biggest flames. The man who did it was, by the way, a nature-lover and I humbly think he is innocent, for he also informed police and authorities after the disaster happen. Nevertheless, other sources of heat and ashes appeared days after, excepting one arsonist who was captured hours later near Telde.
This was the first fire you have probably heard about in the news of the BBC or any other mass media in Europe or any other place of the globe, excepting the Amazons' fires that took place a few days after this one in this little island, if we compare its size and importance in Europe.
I saw the sights from an airplane towards Gran Canaria and it seemed horrible: All that it was green and beauty in the Bentayga Stone and all the villages around the top mountains was now ashes. It was not a black brilliant like in Lanzarote or Teide's base, from a volcano, but a rare black from vegetation and obscure ashes together with other natural colors I had always remember like natural in my eyes since childhood.
Now, some authorities say, time to time, let's wait for recovery. I invite people from the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and other places to come here as always, but to keep in mind that most people here are aware you all love to see and admire our vegetation and not only sunny baths. It will take some years to recover it, and people from those villages will be enchanté to offer you the same products at the same prices to recover the little agriculture and the way of quiet life they had before this dissater.
Let's nature and the countryside villages recover themselves, visiting them and buying new foods and derivatives there to find the tranquility they have recently lost.
I wish the best for the heights and people from there, which suffered aid's relocations during one week.
Great Canaria is the most populated island, together with Tenerife, from the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, north-west side of the Sahara desert, a few kilometers away from Africa shores, though it has always been connected to Spain and all the European countries since it was conquered in the 15th century by the Kingdom of Castille.
It was one of the most rich in wood of laurel forest, water and all kind of supplies for Columbus to dock before his arrival in New Indias (that is America) in his New World's travels. This, with the help of the Atlantic's curved sea stream towards the west, helped Columbus' vessels to dock here in most of the travels to America.
After the mid-twentieth centuries' plans for stopping the desertification and lack of vegetation, which was planting laurel hundreds of endemic pine trees, together with eucalyptuses and other species.
In this 21st century, the island suffered from the lack of interest on the agriculture and local livestock like never before, so the valleys and dry rests of vegetation were cleaned just by this little poor sector, against the rich powerful tourist sector, always overprotected by politicians and all the other upper-class of investors.
This way, a few little sparks from an electric saw for metals, made one of the biggest flames. The man who did it was, by the way, a nature-lover and I humbly think he is innocent, for he also informed police and authorities after the disaster happen. Nevertheless, other sources of heat and ashes appeared days after, excepting one arsonist who was captured hours later near Telde.
This was the first fire you have probably heard about in the news of the BBC or any other mass media in Europe or any other place of the globe, excepting the Amazons' fires that took place a few days after this one in this little island, if we compare its size and importance in Europe.
Now, some authorities say, time to time, let's wait for recovery. I invite people from the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and other places to come here as always, but to keep in mind that most people here are aware you all love to see and admire our vegetation and not only sunny baths. It will take some years to recover it, and people from those villages will be enchanté to offer you the same products at the same prices to recover the little agriculture and the way of quiet life they had before this dissater.
Let's nature and the countryside villages recover themselves, visiting them and buying new foods and derivatives there to find the tranquility they have recently lost.
I wish the best for the heights and people from there, which suffered aid's relocations during one week.
