The construction of a cable car was planned to connect the tip of Calheta (in Porto Santo) to the islet.

The project was abandoned because the large numbers of visitors would have endangered the regeneration of the islet's fragile ecosystem.

[3] Despite its rough appearance, this islet is home to a very rich flora, which includes the usual coastal shrubs and some traces of laurisilva, probably due to its difficult access.

It is also a breeding ground for at least four species of birds, the Atlantic canary, the Berthelot's pipit, the plain swift and the little shearwater[4] and home to endemic land snails, Amphorella cimensis[5] and Leiostyla relevata.

[3] In these areas with very high ecological value and great vulnerability to human pressure or reduced capacity for regeneration, only activities of a scientific nature are allowed and, exceptionally, in previously selected areas, places of observation in the scope of leisure and recreational uses.This Madeira location article is a stub.