Junta Minister Calls For Madrid Meeting To Discuss La Almoraima

Junta Minister Calls For Madrid Meeting To Discuss La Almoraima

LAST UPDATED: 27 November, 2014 @ 5:32 pm
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Hundreds of people campaigned to save the beautiful Almoraima estate from privatisation on Sunday, with Hollywood star Salma Hayek currently considering the purchase

Hundreds of people campaigned to save the beautiful Almoraima estate from privatisation on Sunday, with Hollywood star Salma Hayek currently considering the purchase
Hundreds of people campaigned to save the beautiful Almoraima estate from privatisation on Sunday, with Hollywood star Salma Hayek currently considering the purchase

THE campaign to save the Almoraima estate from being turned into an ‘elite tourism resort’ continues to gather support.

Over 100 protesters recently blocked the entrance to the exclusive estate, near Sotogrande, to publicise its plight.

Protesters included veteran environmentalist Paco Casera, who has started a hunger strike, calling for a series of measures to be implemented.

Casera has taken this drastic move due to what he sees as the failure of the most recent measures of the Common Agricultural Policy to implement organic initiatives.

He believes that organic methods are the key to increased production and that these methods also reduce pressure on physical resources such as soil, water and biodiversity in region.

Meanwhile the Junta’s Minister for Tourism, Rafael Rodriguez, has sent a letter to the government asking for a meeting to discuss the future of the estate.

In the letter Rodriguez stated that the ‘possible sale of the property has caused major concern in the Campo de Gibraltar area’.

He said he wanted to see the government working together with the Junta to help make it profitable.

“The tourism opportunities are extraordinary and require only careful planning to make conserving the ecology the largest ??of its selling points.”

There has been no news from the actress Salma Hayek and her billionaire husband Francis Henri-Pinault who took a flying inspection trip of the estate by private helicopter last month.

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