Tourism Impact on Mediterranean Sea Environment

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to the environmental condition by contributing waste, marine pollution from domestic sewage, water shortages, and land degradation. With larger spaces of the area occupied for tourist activities and facilities establishment, the industry has eaten up the landscapes, leaving little open space and remains for the buffer zone and natural sites, and reported to trigger conflict on land use, water resources, and other environmental consideration among the inhabitants and authority. With the increasing number of tourist year by year, it will also impact on more severe exploitation of the nature of the beaches, including associated organisms that depend to the normal condition of the beaches.
According to European Environment Agency, although the open waters remain unharmed and in good condition after such exposures to tourism, the presence of crowds on the beaches has already reached its limit. The inhabitant alone has increased from 450 million in 1997 to a 520-570 million in 2030, as ...

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officer at WWF Mediterranean Program Office, this place is also the house of several endangered species like the monk seal, the loggerhead and the green turtle, and also several species of cetaceans.
The WWF mentioned 13 key marine and coastal areas that are important to biodiversity such as: Alboran sea (Spain, Morocco, Algeria); Balearic Islands (Spain); Liguro-Provençal coast (France, Italy, Monaco); Corso-Sardinian coast (France, Italy); Southern Tyrrhenian coast (Italy); Dalmatian coast (Croatia); Eastern Ionian coast and islands (Albania, Greece); Aegean sea (Greece, Turkey) and South Western Anatolian coast (Turkey); Cilician coast (Turkey) and Cyprus coast; Cyrenaica ...

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