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The Ministry of the Environment, Fight against Climate Change, Circular Economy and R + D + i of the Cabildo de Fuerteventura led by Marlene Figueroa has received this week an electric vehicle type "buggie" 4X4 that will be used for maintenance and surveillance environment in the Islote de Lobos Natural Park.The Minister Marlene Figueroa has pointed out that “the values ​​and resources of the Islote de Lobos and its special fragility as an ecosystem make it even more necessary to control, monitor and conserve it, therefore it is of vital interest to have an adapted vehicle to the environment, and contemplating the sustainable development goals (SDG), as well as, complying with the Paris Climate Action agreement and finally so that the Islote de Lobos Natural Park continues to be a sustainable and 100% clean island, the vehicle It must be electric ”.The Islote de Lobos Natural Park is an ecosystem recognized for having a high environmental wealth, which corresponds to its level of protection insofar as it is representative of the natural system and minor subsystems (salt marshes, jable de los hornitos, tabaibales del badlands and the varied halophilic vegetation of the coasts and salty valleys); its high biodiversity with the presence of unique endemisms of the islet such as the Lobos Immortelle (Limonium bollei), as well as the presence of marine and migratory birds, its phreatomagmatic horns, the ethnographic elements: salt pans, lime kilns and the Martiño Lighthouse, and paleontological sites of the Jadian and Erbanese periods.The Cabildo's Environment service has, among others, transferred the powers in matters of conservation and protection of wild flora and fauna, in accordance with article 3 of Decree 11/2002, of August 9, transferring functions of the Public Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands to the Island Councils in matters

Almost 2,000 species have been identified in the spaces # Natura2000 Banco de la Concepción and Espacio Marino del Oriente y Sur of Lanzarote-Fuerteventura Scientists from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), in collaboration with the University of La Laguna and the Biodiversity Service of the Canary Islands Government, have produced a catalog of flora and fauna in the protected marine areas of Banco de la Concepción and Oriente y South of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura in which slightly more than 1,700 species are identified.The marine area of the east and south of Lanzarote-Fuerteventura comprises an extensive area of more than 14,000 km² where a great variety of habitats and species converge. It is one of the most productive areas of the Canary Islands and attracts small fish and sea turtles, tunas, sharks, seabirds and cetaceans.This analysis of biodiversity will allow the implementation of management plans and increase the protection of these two Places of Community Importance (SCI), which occupy an area of two million hectares, which in 2016 were included in the Natura 2000 Network and whose extension to Special Conservation Areas (ZEC) is being studied within the framework of the Life Intemares project.Underwater mountain The SCI of Banco de la Concepción, located 75 kilometers northeast of Lanzarote, is a circular underwater mountain with an almost flat top, which rises from a depth of more than 2,600 meters to 150 meters.Its location, morphology and its interposition to currents cause the outcrop of deep waters loaded with nutrients, which make this seamount an oasis of biodiversity.As a consequence, it attracts numerous organisms, from plankton to small fish and, after them, larger ones, such as tunas and sharks, along with cetaceans or turtles in search of food.Sebadales and coral gardens The SCI Marine Area of the East and South of Lanzarote-Fuerteventura, covers

Lobos Island Natural Park You are going to visit a Protected Natural Area that has been part of the Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve since 2009. If you need the permit to Lobos Island send us a WhatsApp message we include it with your ticket free. The authorization to visit the Islote de Lobos Natural Park: You can get it 5 days before the scheduled date of your visit. It is free, personal and non-transferable. Does not include transportation to the island. It may be required at any time during your stay on the islet. If you do not have this authorization, you will not be able to stay in the Islote de Lobos Natural Park, due to non-compliance with the regulations of this natural space. It is issued only for the purposes of control of load capacity and does not exempt from any other permit or authorization that may be necessary. Lobos Pass ZONING MAP OF THE LOBOS ISLAND NATURAL PARK: Zona de Exclusión (Z.E.) | Zona de Uso Restringido (Z.U.R.) | Zona de Uso Moderado (Z.U.M.) | Zona de Uso General (Z.U.G.) | Sendero