An influencer will pay thousands of euros for a video from the dangerous "Path of a Thousand Windows" in Tenerife.

Fran, an aspiring influencer, along with his friends, decided to take a walk to the "Path of a Thousand Windows" near Güímar. On his Instagram, he posted a video showing them coming across a sign that read "Danger, No Entry." But Fran added: "Poor, innocent ones" – and went on, ignoring the warning.

Now this "entertainment" may cost him a pretty penny – from 600 to 2000 euros. And not only for trespassing in a prohibited place – an aqueduct carved into the rock, where it is indeed dangerous. But also for boasting about it online. In the video, he and his friends walk along the aqueduct, turn on music, dance, and marvel at an old crane above the abyss. Fran comments: "What a beauty!"

The new Digital Environmental Monitoring Unit (UVAD) in Tenerife, which searches for violations in protected areas online, has already taken up the case. Fran's video from the "Path of a Thousand Windows" was still on Instagram and had garnered over 630 likes.

In addition to trespassing, Fran is also being investigated for using a drone without permission. But for UVAD, it is important not only to punish offenders, but also to prevent others from imitating such behavior in protected areas.

There are already other similar cases being handled by the island's Department of Natural Environment. For example, recently someone entered the volcanic tubes in the Corona Forestal Natural Park without permission.

But UVAD is most interested in cases that fall under the so-called "posing syndrome." Here, one can mention the Andalusian TikToker @azogue_elea, who has 1.4 million followers. A case was opened against him for throwing paella in Teide National Park.

This "Captain Azogue" threw food in the most protected area of Tenerife, where it is forbidden to throw anything at all. The investigation led to him in Seville. UVAD established that everything happened on the territory of the national park.

"This throw is for all the "machines" of the Canary Islands!" – says Captain Azogue before throwing the paella. The video shows him then going to pick up his pot. On YouTube alone, this video has already been viewed 343,000 times.

Another case that made a splash in the media occurred on August 25. Then the newspaper EL DÍA came out with the headline: "New Stupidity on Teide: A Barber Cuts a Client in the National Park." In fact, he was cutting not one, but several clients and posting it online as advertising. In one of the videos, he gives a haircut in the middle of the TF-21 road, which runs through the park.

UVAD quickly found this "master" as well. He turned out to be the owner of several barbershops in the south of the island. He was accused of filming advertising in the national park without permission, as well as creating a traffic hazard. Barber @belgium.barber.te has already deleted the video, but this will not save him from fines.

During its work, the Digital Environmental Monitoring Unit constantly finds similar examples when influencers shamelessly show their violations in the nature of Tenerife, and their followers even applaud these "feats."

"What adventures and "videos" you make, king!", "I just want to be one of them!", "What a "video", bro, cool!" – these are just some of the comments under Fran's video about the "Path of a Thousand Windows."

Similar videos about dangerous places in Tenerife, such as the Teno canals or the Tancon cave, are very popular online.

The last case is particularly serious. Although there are signs around the Tancon pool that warn of danger, people ignore them and even boast about their "heroism." In recent years, six people have died in this place, the last one in February of this year.