The Secretary General for Territory and Biodiversity, Antonio Serrano, has attended the commemorative events of the XXV anniversary of the declaration of the Garajonay National Park, located on the Canary Island of La Gomera.

Garajonay is one of the four protected areas of the Canary Islands that are part of the National Parks Network. In 1981 it was integrated into the Network and in 1986 UNESCO declared this natural area a World Heritage Site. The Park is home to the best representation of Atlantic laurel forest, the last vestige of the ancestral subtropical forests that populated the Mediterranean area millions of years ago.

In addition, this National Park is home to a diversity of types of plant formations, spectacular geological monuments, such as Los Roques, and a great abundance of invertebrates, with numerous endemic species in La Gomera. As for vertebrates, birds are represented with species as unique as the sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus granti), the henfish (Scolopax rusticola), the turqué pigeon (Columba bolli) and the yellow-tailed pigeon (Columba junoiae).

Antonio Serrano highlighted the values of Garajonay and the rest of the spaces included in the Network of National Parks, which in the coming months should reach its definitive consolidation within the framework of a new management model in which the Ministry of the Environment is currently working.