Re-Opening of Oasis Wildlife Fuerteventura

Next Friday, May 22, Oasis Market, the agro-artisan market of Oasis Wildlife Fuerteventura, reopens its doors from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., after more than two months of forced closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, where visitors will be able to purchase products from first hand without intermediaries. Oasis Market changes its activity from Sunday to Friday in this new stage.

This has been agreed by the management of Oasis Wildlife and those responsible for Public Health of the City of Pájara, in the meeting held this morning by both organizations, and in which all sanitary security measures have been addressed to guarantee the health of both farmers and artisans as customers. For this, the capacity will be delimited; paths will be established, both entry and exit; and the posts will be located linearly separated by a transit route and with a minimum distance of six meters and a minimum lateral separation of 2.5 meters. In addition, the products will be handled only by the merchants, always with masks and gloves. Returns of purchased items will not be allowed during this period.

Card payment will also be promoted and all surfaces will be continuously disinfected. Oasis Market, which will be accessed through the Garden Center area, has a large free parking for customers, which will facilitate transportation to it.

With the opening of the Market, Oasis Wildlife Fuerteventura recovers a social project that began in 2009, to help local producers overcome the economic crisis. Then, the management of the center made its facilities available to the sector, reaffirming its support for actions to promote the primary sector as a tourist resource. Thus, all farmers and artisans who demand it, have a sales area in the Oasis Market, where they can expose their products for free every week. This action is a way of helping and promoting the culture of Fuerteventura.

"Today, what started as a space with six stalls, has become an authentic enclave of first-hand articles, where more than 80 local producers and artisans have a promotional space where people go every weekend", Guacimara Cabrera, manager of Oasis Wildlife, pointed out, “Now, with this opening, they will have the opportunity to start making up for lost time, in which many of them have tried to adapt to home sales, without success, due to the lack of trading platforms.

Over the past two months, local producers have been "seriously harmed" by the confinement due to the Coronavirus pandemic in our country, which has caused situations of great difficulty for many of them who will now have a space to the sale.