While awaiting a court decision that would clarify the legality of the expiration of the Navacerrada ski slopes concession, andMinistry has made progress in environmental recovery of these lands. The Sierra de Guadarrama conservation area continues to get rid of artificial structures that endanger both its landscape and ecosystems.
Since the beginning of October, the Autonomous Organism for National Parks (OAPN) belongs to the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Control (MITECO), It has begun dismantling several abandoned chairlifts on Mount Pinar de Valsaín, owned by OAPN, and Guarramillas, owned by the Community of Ciudad y Tierra de Segovia.
Abandoned for decades and requested by different mountain groups and environmentalists, the dismantling of these chairlifts is part of a pilot program for sustainable economic activation of municipalities around the port of Navacerrada and is encouraged by OAPN after it ceases tourism activities. area. The main beneficiary municipalities of this program will be Navacerrada and Cercedilla (Community of Madrid) and the Royal District of San Ildefonso (Segovia), the ministry said in a statement.
“The program includes various actions distributed on the following four axes. promoting the local economy, sustainable mobility, historical, nature and sports tourism, as well as the rehabilitation of the port and its surroundings“, the ministry reports. Planned actions were presented at the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (PNSG) Board of Trustees meeting and at the PNSG Coordinating Commission meetings held in 2021. Production funds from the European Union.
In addition to recently launched actions, the program provides: construction of deterrent parking lots in nearby municipalities, creation of national park interpretation centers, preparation of interpretive paths and routes, burial of the high voltage line crossing the national park or demolition of old abandoned buildings In the port of Navacerrada. The majority of these actions have an execution schedule established between this last quarter of 2022 and 2024 and related projects in different stages of processing.
Towards a sustainable destination
The Ministry has confirmed that the demolitions carried out at the port of Navacerrada-Cercedilla are compatible with the Tourism Sustainability Plan, derived from the 2021 agreement between the Minister of State for Tourism and the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports. From the Autónoma de Madrid Community and Cercedilla City Council, which aims to transform this environment into a sustainable destination and contribute to climate change mitigation.
To all these initiatives that seek to promote the conservation and respectful use of the national park, The recent reopening of the historic RENFE train on the C-9 line connecting the municipality of Cercedilla with the ports of Navacerrada and Coto also contributes to this.It represents an alternative to sustainable mobility of access to the national park, which is beneficial for s and the region and users.
Judicial process continues
The driven program runs for the following time: In the declaration that the occupation concession of Pinar de Valsaín Mountain has come to an end or has come to an end, a decision regarding the open judicial process is expected to determine the competent authority.. This mountain, owned by OAPN, is used on an area of 7.7 hectares with chairlifts for private use, although it completed its occupation title on April 3, 2021 and is unlikely to extend it.
Because of its autonomy, environmental values and public interest, the autonomous body has decided to return this area to its natural state, an action that is also included in the program in question and whose execution awaits a decision.
The National Parks Autonomous Organization will continue to work for the protection and sustainable use of nature, and to ensure that current and future generations can benefit from a natural heritage of their own.
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