Portimão – 77 notices issued for illegal caravaning

The Faro Territorial Command, through the Portimão Territorial Detachment,on, November 26th, carried out a surveillance operation directed to wild caravaning, in the Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina Natural Park (PNSACV).

The inspection was carried out on the Amado, Barranco, Ingrina and Ponto da Fisga beaches, all belonging to the PNSACV, with the objective of protecting natural resources, maintaining and enhancing natural and semi-natural landscapes, and these values ​​are threatened with illegal occupation of these spaces, accompanied by uncontrolled waste disposal by caravans.

In the course of the inspection actions, 77 notices of offense for prohibited caravanning practices were prepared, all of them provided for in the Regulations of the PNSACV’s Planning Plan.

The notices of contravention will be sent to the Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests.

The GNR stresses that it is necessary to adopt ‘environmentally friendly’ behavior, as caravanning, outside the spaces and rules, can endanger not only nature and the environment, but also a health risk to the public.

 


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