Coral Reef in Danger – Jan Thiel, Curacao – part 2

August 3rd, 2009

… cont. from part 1.
This magnificent reef is so close to shore that it will be seriously impacted by a huge hotel bordering directly on the cliff shore and with a large artificial beach in the places that are now natural coral rubble beach on fossil coral rock. For the artificial beach, the rock will be blown up crushed and excavated, break waters built and sand brought in from elsewhere, in the process choking the reef far downstream. If the hotel is built it will destroy the very resource that attract tourists.

Filed under: Curaçao, The Caribbean is dying