More than 10,000 people interact with the Zifios and the Sperm whale in the exhibition on the cetaceans of Macaronesia

The sample was located in the Fuerteventura airport terminal and it is expected to be exhibited shortly in several municipalities on the island.

Marlene Figueroa: “These actions are framed in the strategy of the blue economy of the Cabildo aimed at becoming aware, sensitizing and re -evaluating our rich marine biodiversity”.

Success of the “Cetacean de la Macaronesia” exhibition which received more than 10,000 visitors between tourists and residents during the month in which he was exhibited at the arrivals of the Fuerteventura airport. The Ministry of Tourism, the Biosphere Reserve and the Blue Economy of the Cabirdo de Fuerteventura is planning that the different municipalities of the island travels.

The exhibition has the collaboration of the Loro Parque Foundation and aims to sensitize the population on the wealth and variety of cetaceans that cross the Atlantic Ocean, aware of the conservation of marine life in Macaronesia. It is composed of natural dimensions of some of the most characteristic species of the Canary Islands such as the Sperm Whale -Of 17 meters -, an ORCA, a Zifio di Cuvier, a Ziph of Blanville and Tropical Calderón, a dolphin mule and a common Dolfino.

The Minister of Tourism, of the Biosphere and Blue Economy of the Blue Economy of the Cabyldo de Fuerteventura, Marlene Figueroa, indicated that this type of teaching is framed in the strategy of the blue economy that we intend to develop in Fuerteventura to become aware, sensitize and, above all, to re -evaluate our rich marine biodiversity.

Marlene Figueroa wanted to emphasize that these types of shares are a request for attention to society as a whole, trying to arouse their interest and curiosity to raise awareness and commit both those we live here and those who come to visit us.

The initiative had a great acceptance, not only among tourists who used the airport terminal and residents who came to visit it, also and very special in school environments with students and teachers of various centers of the island who approached to know the cetaceans of natural dimensions.

Cetacean populations that can be observed in the waters near the island of Fuerteventura are very unknown to the population and resident visitors, and that is why it is necessary

The Biosphere Reserve develops an environmental education such as the sea, exhibitions and seminars throughout the island, making the wide range of species known that treasure its waters and aware of the great challenges that they face following a marine impediment and other impacts such as prospects and active sounds

The Canary Islands are found in a subtropical region of the Atlantic Ocean whose oceanographic and batimetric characteristics favor the presence of a wide variety of cetacean species. The islands are considered one of the hot biodiversity points of the cetaceans of the world, with a maximum of 30 species described so far.