Since its launch in 1994, Freebird Sailing has expanded to become the largest catamaran service in the Canaries. To date, it has carried more than 1.2 million passengers on adventures ranging from family cruises around our coastline to VIP sailing trips and parties in the port.
Freebird also has other strings to its bow. From its headquarters in Tenerife at Puerto Colon, new innovations are always being introduced, such as VIP Teide at Night tours which includes studying the stars with a local astronomer and a gourmet meal. You can also discover Tenerife or La Gomera by open top jeep and further exciting plans for 2008, both on and off the sea, will soon be revealed. (more...)

No, I'm not talking about faux news or even carbuncles of massive tourism and, it comes (to me) as no surprise that the island of Tenerife generates 2,000 tons of residues (rubbish) each day, because we've been slowly joining the first-world in wasteful consumption levels and, of course, then there's the trash generated by and on behalf of Tenerife's 3.5 million annual foreign visitors.

Amongst other green and sustainable tourism issues, it's reported that, "The island is also working on the need for increased waste management using the principle of the 3 R's and the 3 M's: "Reduction, Recycling and Reutilisation" and "Maintenance (of the Compost Plant), Modernisation (of the Urban Waste Transfer Plants) and Management (of the six Clean Points)."
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Tenerife has the problem normally associated with the pop duo Wham! For some people it seems just so 1983. It has appeared, not unlike George Michael, to be still around, but it isn't what it used to be.

Which is harsh, at least for the north of the island. Rarely can so small a place be so dramatically divided in culture and style. The south of Tenerife, invariably the drier part, does still have a sense of the early Eighties about it. The northern section, on the other hand, has refocused on the family market, but with an emphasis on environmentalism.

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Tenerife is just one of the seven Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, yet it is making a huge impact on the environment. Tenerife has a commitment to the private and public sector to go green and do whatever they can to protect the environment of the island.

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