FEAGA 2010 Exposition In Pozo Negro Fuerteventura

FEAGA 2010 Exposition In Pozo Negro Fuerteventura
The annual FEAGA exposition took place this last Thursday to Sunday in what is a now familiar location off the main road from Caleta de Fuste to Jandia at the Pozo Negro junction. This year the Island had a lot to celebrate and show off both in terms of its local agricultural and homestead businesses and the UNESCO biosphere accreditation.
The site was divided into numerous areas encompassing livestock, dairy, meat and wine products, local business suppliers, show areas for live demonstrations including rescue dogs and horse showmanship, and a tented eating facility. The variety of stalls was particularly staggering with each producer keen to impress and win over custom with tempting cheeses, wines and never ending tit bits.
Business suppliers were also keen to show and explain their services offering solar power solutions, agricultural machinery, animal feed, water source solutions and other services. Chris Minty from Fuerteventura Spas was on hand to demonstrate his wide range of Spas and property management solutions as well as taking local BBQs to the next level with the Boretti range of gas BBQs. Udo Abraham was also on hand to demonstrate the AGCOR watering concept for domestic and agricultural use that uses 100% recycled rubber tyres to produce a ‘leaking membrane’ tubing system that ensure no wasted water by evaporation.
Fuerteventura’s Cabildo put on a 3 screen visual video display showing the variety of the Islands landscapes and a presentation of the future land use program to ensure the conservation and preservation of Fuerteventura’s unique natural resources now that the Biosphere accreditation has been awarded.
The show is not just for buyers of agricultural equipment, in fact it is designed to bring awareness to the variety of products and services offered in Fuerteventura and the live shows make for an entertaining day out. The pebbled beach of Pozo Negro also provides an ideal family stop with two fantastic sea side restaurants looking out over a naturally sheltered cove. The winding road to the beach also passes an interpretation centre in La Atalayitas which explains the unique volcanic nature of this part of the Island.

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New Flights and solid Real Estate prices in Fuerteventura all help in the Islands progress as a place that is growing on the touristic map of Spain

Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands has recently been named a Bioshere Reserve, all this is seen to assist and help in the growth of the island, which will produce good returns on real estate prices, provide a better environment for visitors and access is being provided by more and more flights to the Canary Islands from the UK.

Last week it was announced that UNSECO have made Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands a biosphere reserve. This means that Fuerteventura have been recognised as having a unique environment and that the islanders are working to ensure that people and wildlife live harmoniously together. This should help to stop some of the over development that has happened and keep the island the beautiful, peaceful place that has made Fuerteventura a place for those that have visited a place we all love. The announcement that Fuerteventura has been named as a UNESCO biosphere reserve, what you can do to help the Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands live up to this honour. The award is given to areas where people and the environment are working to live in harmony with each other and the recent survey that showed a 30% increase in the Hubara bird in just one year helps to confirm this. But you cannot just leave this up to the Cabildo to follow good environmental practice, this has got to come from every one of us who visits Fuerteventura for their vacation / holiday.

The immediate thought that comes into people's minds when they think of themselves and the environment is recycling, but in many ways this should be almost your last resort.......

More good news on flights to Fuerteventura island this week, Palmair are going to come to Fuerteventura from Exeter for the winter season, these start in November.

Fuerteventura Named As Biosphere Reserve

As well as a tiger reserve in India and a former military training area in Germany Fuerteventura is one of 22 new sites from 17 countries added by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to its World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

Biosphere reserves are areas designated to serve as places to test different approaches to integrated management of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine resources and biodiversity. As a result, they are sites for experimenting with and learning about sustainable development

Fuerteventura is the second largest island of the Canaries archipelago, close to the West African Coast. It includes a wide range of ecosystems from desert or semi-desert areas to coastal and marine habitats. While the island is characterized by a rich diversity of marine species, including dolphins and cachalot’s, as well as marine turtles that reproduce on its beaches, the biosphere reserve also represents one of the world’s major geopalentological observatories. Development of sustainable ecotourism practices is the major focus of the population living on the island. The island is also investing in the increase of its renewable energy capacity, mainly through wind-based and solar energy production and is representing itself as one of the models for the implementation of the European Union's Directive on Renewable Energy.

The other new sites are: Lagunas de Montebello (Mexico), Flores Island (Portugal), Geres-Xures (Portugal and Spain), Shinan Dadohae (ROK), Altaisky (Russia), Vhembe (South Africa), Giam Siak Kecil – Bukit Batu (Indonesia), Great sandy (Australia), Lajat Biosphere Reserve (Syria), Desnianskyi (Ukraine), Delta del Orinoco (Venezuela), Cu Lao Cham – Hoi An (Viet Nam), Mui Ca Mau (Viet Nam), Mount Myohyang (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), Biosphare Bliesgau (Germany), Similipal (India), Pachmarhi (India), Nokrek (India), and Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve (Lebanon).