on for protection. the more you dredge, the worse the erosion becomes. to see the effects this is having on the local population, i m travelling to the island of dhiffushi. there are no resorts here, just simple guesthouses. wow, look at this! you can clearly see that the beach is eroded. the beach shouldn t fall off like that. and apparently, that buoy is where the beach used to be. so they ve lost at least 15 metres of beach. that s severe. without the beach, the island has become yet more vulnerable to flooding. so, what do you do when you know your island is going to flood once a year? well, these islanders have got the sandbags out and they ve tried to make their own defence barrier. aminat houdar is someone who s lived here all her life and witnessed first hand the effects erosion is having.
how much sand do you need to do that? we have put in almost the equivalent of 100 olympic swimming pools. - this will soon be a luxury resort. but the trouble with building this way is it massively damages the environment. disturbed sand sediments can smother the very corals that the maldives relies on for protection. the more you dredge, the worse the erosion becomes. to see the effects this is having on the local population, i m travelling to the island of dhiffushi. there are no resorts here, just simple guesthouses. wow, look at this! you can clearly see that the beach is eroded. the beach shouldn t fall off like that. and apparently, that buoy is where the beach used to be. so they ve lost at least 15 metres of beach.
olympic swimming pools. this will soon be a luxury resort. but the trouble with building this way is it massively damages the environment. disturbed sand sediments can smother the very corals that the maldives relies on for protection. the more you dredge, the worse the erosion becomes. to see the effects this is having on the local population, i m travelling to the island of dhiffushi. there are no resorts here, just simple guesthouses. wow, look at this! you can clearly see that the beach is eroded. the beach shouldn t fall off like that. and apparently, that buoy is where the beach used to be. so they ve lost at least 15 metres of beach. that s severe. without the beach, the island
damages the environment. disturbed sand sediments can smother the very corals that the maldives relies on for protection. the more you dredge, the worse the erosion becomes. to see the effects this is having on the local population, i m travelling to the island of dhiffushi. to see the effects this is having on the local population, i m travelling to the island of dhiffushi. there are no resorts here, just simple guesthouses. wow, look at this! you can clearly see that the beach is eroded. the beach shouldn t fall off like that. and apparently, that buoy is where the beach used to be. so they ve lost at least 15 metres of beach. that s severe. without the beach, the island has become yet more vulnerable to flooding. so, what do you do when you know your island is going to flood once a year? well, these islanders have got the sandbags out and they ve tried to make their own defence barrier.
population, i m travelling to the island of dhiffushi. there are no resorts here, just simple guesthouses. wow, look at this! you can clearly see that the beach is eroded. the beach shouldn t fall off like that. and apparently, that buoy is where the beach used to be. so they ve lost at least 15 metres of beach. that s severe. without the beach, the island has become yet more vulnerable to flooding. so, what do you do when you know your island is going to flood once a year? well, these islanders have got the sandbags out and they ve tried to make their own defence barrier. aminat houdar is someone who s lived here all her life and witnessed first hand the effects erosion is having.