Friends of the Earth, Ecologists in Action, Greenpeace, SEO/BirdLife and WWF support the Canal Roya Fest festivalorganized by the Platform in Defense of the Mountains of Aragonwhich will take place on February 24 at the Sala Multiusos in Zaragoza. The objective is to promote the declaration of the Anayet-Partacua Natural Park and for the Roya Canal to be included within it..
Las environmental organizations join again the mobilization and information campaign carried out by the Platform in Defense of the Mountains of Aragon. With these actions they seek to defend the Pyrenean valley of the Roya Channelthreatened by the union of ski resorts, and ask for its protection within the Anayet-Partacua Natural Parkwhich has been pending declaration for more than a decade.
He Canal Roya Fest will take place on February 24, at 8 pm, in the Multipurpose Room in the Aragonese capital. Featuring artists like Ixo Rai! + Jesus Cifuentes (Short Celts), The Round of Boltán, Joaquin Pardinilla Sextet, Viki and the Wild, Furelguti & Krevi Solenco & Manu Haller, Corn Socas, Rapsusklei, Angel Petisme, L’Asia & Mendas del Cierzo, Con-fuses with Aurora Beltran (Left Bears), DJ Red Moon and DJ Pendejo.
It is worth highlighting the avalanche of artists who have offered to collaborate selflessly with this festival, motivated by respect for the Pyrenean valleys and the Roya Channel in particular, and with the common objective of its declaration as a natural park.
Incorporation of the Roya Canal into the Anayet-Partacua Natural Park
The entities have already given their support to the spring 2023 campaign, to stop the station union project that would lead to the destruction of this valuable Pyrenean enclave. The paralysis of said project, which involved denying climate change and destroying the mountain ecosystem, paid for with European funds for sustainable tourism, represented a social victory.
Throughout the campaign, the environmental organizations warned that the construction of this connecting infrastructure between ski resorts would have an irreparable impact on the landscape and on the species of alpine fauna and flora of this Pyrenean area, especially in the area called the Roya Channela large glacial valley, at the foot of Anayet Peak, of extraordinary beauty and natural values.
The project contemplated erecting two frameworks of large metal pilasters, anchored in concrete, to support the cables through which cable cars would run in both directions. In addition, it was intended to build a service and evacuation road along the entire route and a service station would be built at the bottom of the valley.
More than a decade ago, the Government of Aragon committed to declaring this territory as a protected natural space with the category of natural park, after the expansion of the Formigal ski slopes through Espelunciecha, which caused a serious environmental impact on the area. surroundings of Anayet.
After the stoppage of the union of stations, what the mobilized population now wants is for the project to be definitively rejected, with the declaration of the area as a protected space.
Attendance at the Canal Roya Fest festival
The entries of Canal Roya Fest They can be purchased at physical points of sale distributed in Jaca, Sabiñanigo, Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel, as well as online on the Save Canal Roya campaign website, where all the information about the event is.
On social networks you can follow the information of the festival with #CanalRoyaFest24F or directly on the web.
