Building craze threatens to end Lanzarote’s biosphere status

Building craze threatens to end Lanzarote’s biosphere status
Many tourists travel to Lanzarote for nothing more than a sunny beach and a pitcher of sangria with a cliff-top view. But the Spanish Canary Island is also a Unesco biosphere site: an arid stretch of lava fields, salt marshes and coastal mountains where high-rises are taboo. And for decades, the island’s elegant-and-ecological style of tourism defied the construction craze of its wilder island …

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