I booked for a 12 day stay on Alaya hotel to relax and retreat from building works on my apartment in London. The hotel and staff were 100% wonderful but 5 metres from my room balcony there was a hotel being built. The drilling and banging was from dawn til dusk. I was going out of my mind. I transferred to Maafushi after one night.
05 JUNE 2024 WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 1. The Maldives is one of the countries that should not celebrate World Environment Day. Even though the Maldives is presented at the international forums as a low-lying nation, we are at the front line of the impacts of climate change. Knowing all these things, the Maldives is the one country that does things which destroy its environment openly. Dragging sand from the bottom of the ocean floor and pouring it onto the beautiful lagoons and the reefs which took thousands and thousands of years to grow. The Maldives has made more than 250 islands by dragging sand over the lagoons and the reefs. 2. The Maldives is made up of about 1,190 coral islands formed around 26 natural ring-like atolls. Of this, no more than 200 islands are inhabited, the rest includes over 150 tourist resorts and uninhabited islands, some of which are used for fisheries and agricultural activities. We have still got more than 800 islands that are formed naturally to build resorts if needed. But the government of the Maldives are dragging the sand from the ocean floor and pouring it over the lagoons and the reefs to make the new resorts. This blocks the flow of the current completely through the atolls, which leads to warming up the temperature of the sea and eventually leads to bleaching and death of the remaining corals and the fishes that live inside the atoll. Which also leads to not getting the bait fish for the fishermen in the Maldives. The Maldives economy depends on fishing after tourism. 3. In the Maldives there are incidents where a ship or a boat accidentally hit a reef, the shipping company or the owner of the boat gets fined millions and millions of dollars for the damage caused to the reef. But there's no law or a rule which can fine the Ministry of Environment or the Environmental Protection Agency for the unimaginable damage they cause to the lagoons and the reefs across the Maldives in the name of new resorts by dragging sand over the reefs and lagoons. The funny thing is when they had to make an inhabited island due to lake of land, the Environmental Protection Agency know the impact of it to the environment and it becomes difficult to get the land the citizens need to make a living. It is proven scientifically that saving an area of 500m to 500m of lagoon and reef will help the environment rather than saving 1 million trees. Trees and rainforests produce approximately 28% of the oxygen on Earth, so what about the other 72%? Well, that comes from the plant life in the ocean. DO THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW THE IMPACTS CAUSED BY THESE THINGS, OR THEY ARE JUST DOING IT ON PURPOSE TO OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. OR THEY JUST WANT TO GET A BENEFIT FROM IT FOR NOW.
I booked for a 12 day stay on Alaya hotel to relax and retreat from building works on my apartment in London. The hotel and staff were 100% wonderful but 5 metres from my room balcony there was a hotel being built. The drilling and banging was from dawn til dusk. I was going out of my mind. I transferred to Maafushi after one night.
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Thanks so much for your video! Based on you video, I am going there in December (prior, I was only planning to go to Maafushi). Wonderful video!
How to get to this island from Male? Great video, thanks!
We have all the info and much more in our travel guide: livingtheglobe.net/
05 JUNE 2024 WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
1. The Maldives is one of the countries that should not celebrate World Environment Day. Even though the Maldives is presented at the international forums as a low-lying nation, we are at the front line of the impacts of climate change. Knowing all these things, the Maldives is the one country that does things which destroy its environment openly. Dragging sand from the bottom of the ocean floor and pouring it onto the beautiful lagoons and the reefs which took thousands and thousands of years to grow. The Maldives has made more than 250 islands by dragging sand over the lagoons and the reefs.
2. The Maldives is made up of about 1,190 coral islands formed around 26 natural ring-like atolls. Of this, no more than 200 islands are inhabited, the rest includes over 150 tourist resorts and uninhabited islands, some of which are used for fisheries and agricultural activities. We have still got more than 800 islands that are formed naturally to build resorts if needed. But the government of the Maldives are dragging the sand from the ocean floor and pouring it over the lagoons and the reefs to make the new resorts. This blocks the flow of the current completely through the atolls, which leads to warming up the temperature of the sea and eventually leads to bleaching and death of the remaining corals and the fishes that live inside the atoll. Which also leads to not getting the bait fish for the fishermen in the Maldives. The Maldives economy depends on fishing after tourism.
3. In the Maldives there are incidents where a ship or a boat accidentally hit a reef, the shipping company or the owner of the boat gets fined millions and millions of dollars for the damage caused to the reef. But there's no law or a rule which can fine the Ministry of Environment or the Environmental Protection Agency for the unimaginable damage they cause to the lagoons and the reefs across the Maldives in the name of new resorts by dragging sand over the reefs and lagoons. The funny thing is when they had to make an inhabited island due to lake of land, the Environmental Protection Agency know the impact of it to the environment and it becomes difficult to get the land the citizens need to make a living. It is proven scientifically that saving an area of 500m to 500m of lagoon and reef will help the environment rather than saving 1 million trees. Trees and rainforests produce approximately 28% of the oxygen on Earth, so what about the other 72%? Well, that comes from the plant life in the ocean.
DO THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW THE IMPACTS CAUSED BY THESE THINGS, OR THEY ARE JUST DOING IT ON PURPOSE TO OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. OR THEY JUST WANT TO GET A BENEFIT FROM IT FOR NOW.