Ecotax for visiting Lobos Island
Two euros is the amount of money that tourists who want to visit Lobos Island will have to pay. Fuerteventura's Cabildo will create this Ecotax in order to raise money to conserve the Nature Reserve. Ecologists are not keen on the initiative.
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The Fuerteventura Cabildo plans to charge all visitors of Lobos Island a two-euro ecotax. The money that is collected will go towards the conservation and maintenance of the Nature Reserve, and they will increase the daily number of visitors allowed to disembark on the island from 200 to 704. Fuerteventura Cabildo President, Marcial Morales, said that the ecotax is already charged in other nature reserves on the islands. He thinks it reasonable for the residents to not have to pay for conserving of one of the island's key destinations.
Although the locals applaud the initiative, Ben Magec Ecologists in Action considers it an error to raise the quota of people who can visit the island each day, and they fear that greed is what lies behind the Cabildo's initiative.
Fuerteventura, which has been declared a Biosphere Reserve and a Starlight Reserve, is itself valued for its conservation and its wager for sustainable tourism.
