According to the President of the Union of Farmers and Ranchers of lowered Guadalentin (COAG), Isidoro Cayuela, "farmers are fed up because the Barbary continues to ravage crops inside the park and game reserve Espuña and in hundreds of acres of crops environment Alhama, Aledo, Totana, Lorca, Mula and even sometimes up to 20 or 30 km of the park-and the direction of the park and the Environment, which are not only in breach of the law, which forced to compensate farmers affected, but even collaborate on programs allow TVE, bragging and lying about the supposed benefits Barbary sheep pose to the Park and to the economy and the population of the area, and knowingly concealing serious Barbary sheep have damages to the flora and fauna of the Park and for agriculture and livestock and the environment inside the park, which is generating a growing animosity and opposition to Park Sierra ESPUÑA by the population of the area. "
This was the main reason that farmers and owners of Park Sierra ESPUÑA and its environment, represented by COAG and APESE, voted against the adoption of the report and accounts for 2013 and Budget 2014 Park Espuña in leading the Park Board held this week because, as manifested, are tired of the leaders of the Environment and the Park, and again violate the law and spend hundreds of thousands of euros in actions to often questionable value and priority, without spending a single euro to compensate and indemnify the owners and farmers Park and its surroundings, as required by law, for almost 19 years.
COAG also showed APESE and dramatically against the intention of the Environment and the Department of Park barbecues eliminate the recreational areas of La Santa and other areas of the park in Alhama, Mula and Totana materialize and reduce and remove existing camping areas;
the alleged justification for this use endangers the maintenance of biodiversity and increases the risk of fire in the park and its surroundings.
According to the President of APESE, although more than one third of the area of ​​the Park and over 80% of its surroundings is privately owned, the Park Director not only conforms to pretend steal and expropriate the enjoyment of all citizens over the public use of stunning natural park of this region, as they have already expropriated the use of private property owners inside the space they now seek to amend decree habits of thousands of citizens and residents of the area, which for many years enjoy making rice or BBQ on the santa or other areas provided for that purpose, who now claim that re decree traditions and replace them with tortilla chips or sandwiches.
Because, according to Jose Luis Hernandez, "Anyone can understand that guns should be banned at the start in the middle and end of the summer. But it is very difficult to explain to the citizens and residents of the area or region, and but to do one of those surveys that they love to answer them what they care-they in November, December, January or February-dates when fire risk is negligible-no one can make a rice La santa or other recreational areas. taking particular note that in those months, there are two teams of ten people who have taken us to all citizens over 600,000 euros in 2013, we are engaged, but exclusively if mainly , prevention and firefighting And that could be used to monitor and control these recreational areas, at least those six months a year, which fortunately have zero or very low occupancy. "
The governing board of the Park itself which unanimously approved the proposal of the representative of Ecologists in Action said fully share the position of COAG and APESE about it, move to the Regional Advisory Council for the Environment (CARMA) all the problems related to the Barbary sheep .
Because, according to the leaders of COAG and APESE, managers of the park and environment have been shown so far unable to solve a problem that clearly has not only transcended the scope of the park surrounding towns but also in the region, and they have achieved with their incompetence and their continued breach of the law of the Park, initially only convert a hunting issue, not just an environmental issue but also a social and economic conflict with serious consequences, especially for thousands of homeowners and farmers and the prestige and image of the most iconic natural area of ​​the Region.
