Having just done an article about the pine clearing on Cerro Gordo within the February issue of the Gazette and it now being at the printer... more news arrives.
The regional Board of Agriculture has just opened an investigation into the wiping out of 4.3 hectares of pine forest to make way for an avocado plantation.
The trouble is, as you will read in the paper, edition article on the subject, the landowners received permission from the Town Hall with the approval of the Junta itself…
Benavides is having a field day and the Mayor will now have something more to worry about other than hiring a company convicted of corruption to build the new municipal market.
The Junta is not likely to contradict itself nor cause waves for a Mayor belonging to its own party, so you can be pretty sure that the investigation will find that all was legal and above board… even though the massacre of the pine-covered hillside is mind bogglingly illogical.
Anyway, you can read up on this in the February edition of the Seaside Gazette, which should be hitting the streets on the 1st of February – you will find it in the Costa News section.,
(News: Herradura, Costa tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
Any more golf courses in what will be soon classified semi-desert is clearly bonkers
Patrick, move to Costa Del Golf….maybe!
Sorry. Let me rephrase my previous. Avacados and golf courses. Something we all need here. Alleged corruption from on high and low. From past and present. Seems to be a norm now. What’s a few trees compared to fruit and clubs. ??
This cake I keep banging on about. It’s massive.!!
Thank you for the update.
The scars in the landscape above La Herradura are extremely sad. Its not just the Pine Forest loss
As you drive to Malaga a barren landscape has been beautifully transformed by mango and avocado cultivation but whole areas of pine forest were not primitively slashed and burned.
We have to ask when will ALL the pine forest be cleared to line the pocket of a farmer who will probably claim in a few years the price received for avocados is too low (due to overplanting, over cultivation and over production). The same farmer will also claim there isn’t enough water.
Walk up the hill from La Herradura along Calle Real to the Big Flower you will pass many avocado trees with unpicked fruit….perhaps there is already overproduction.