Many residents have cited environmental degradation and poverty as major issues ... In April last year, mass protests began in the Canary Islands, with residents calling for a temporary limit ...

Despite the record increase in tourists, poverty continues to rise ... However, despite the protests, the Canary Islands president Fernando Clavijo, has called for "common sense".

but 36 percent of Canarians at risk of poverty." Before the protests commenced, a representative from the Canarias Se Agota (The Canary Islands Are Exhausted) campaign, whose members had been on a ...