Treasure hunters dig up sand dune nature reserve for ‘buried cash’
Treasure hunters have sparked outrage by digging up a protected sand dune nature reserve after influencers buried €1,000 (£850) and informed followers to search out it in Gran Canaria.
The cash was buried on the Maspalomas Dunes within the San Bartolomé de Tirajana municipality within the south of the island.
A bunch of influencers had posted a video that mentioned: ‘Let’s go for the €1,000!’
Excited crowds then gathered to search for a briefcase containing the cash, buried to create publicity for a live performance.
Followers flocked to the positioning on Saturday armed with spades and shovels to seek for the cash, information web site Tiempo de Canarias reviews.
A bunch might be seen working throughout the sand in the direction of the hidden briefcase, earlier than digging with their spades and naked fingers.
Excited crowds gathered to search for a briefcase containing the cash on the Maspalomas Dunes within the south of the island, buried to create publicity for a live performance
The Maspalomas Dunes within the San Bartolomé de Tirajana municipality within the south of Gran Canaria
‘We have been given €1,000 for the promotion of the occasion, and as a substitute of burning it in TV commercials we’re going to cover them across the island,’ the promotional video famous.
‘The first individual to search out it will get to maintain it.’
The Gran Canaria council is investigating the incident that occurred within the nature reserve in a protected space and it’s set to arrange a grievance to be filed with the Prosecutor’s Office, in line with Tiempo de Canarias.
The firm selling the live performance can also be being investigated, The Times reviews.
DN7 Festival employed a collective of social media activists to advertise the occasion.
They are accused of ignoring the truth that the reserve is a protected space with a novel and fragile ecosystem, in line with the newspaper.
Followers flocked to the positioning on Saturday armed with spades and shovels to seek for the cash
In September, the authorities vowed to get extra-tough on guests breaking the legislation by having intercourse within the dunes, which might trigger harm to the ecosystem. The swingers had been thought to incorporate a excessive proportion of Brits.
The tiny island off the northwest coast of Africa that’s a part of the eight-member Canary Islands archipelago and a longtime favorite of Brits looking for sunshine has been shelling out document fines to al fresco intercourse vacationers because the observe grew to become fashionable after the pandemic.
A neighborhood authorities official was quoted by Spanish-language media as saying because the authorities started formulating a plan to cease all of the al fresco intercourse.
‘Since the pandemic ended, individuals have gone loopy,’ the official mentioned.
Research carried out by Professor Patrick Hesp, of Flinders University in Australia, discovered nearly 300 ‘cruising hotspots’ within the 1,000-acre Maspalomas Dunes nature reserve.
The dunes – a significant vacationer attraction – are dwelling to distinctive plant and animal species, and shrubs assist to anchor the ever-moving sands to cease them from blowing into the close by Atlantic Ocean.
Officials on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria have focused swingers within the sand dunes – thought to incorporate a excessive proportion of Brits
Authorities vowed to get extra-tough on guests breaking the legislation by having intercourse within the dunes, which might trigger harm to the gorgeous but fragile ecosystem
Authorities have warned that vacationers eager to strip off for intercourse with strangers among the many bushes aren’t solely damaging flora however scaring away birds and lizards and abandoning heaps of beer cans, cigarette butts and used condoms.
Measures to regulate the throngs of Dunes-goers had been put in place in 2000, with environmental officers patrolling the realm and handing out fines of round €150 for anybody caught straying past roped-off areas.
But final yr, as tourism surged following two years of Covid journey restrictions, the variety of fines soared six-fold to 120 in comparison with simply 20 in 2022, the native authorities mentioned.
Tourists and overseas residents in Playa del Ingles had been outsmarting the environmental officers by tipping one another off about the place and after they spot them and what time they depart the realm, in line with Facebook intercourse group postings.
Some suggested that it’s ‘protected’ to go to the dunes for informal intercourse after 2pm or 3pm, by which period the patrolling officers have clocked off for the day.
