The Importance Of Sand Erosion In Monaco

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Monaco is a very small country, and it is hard for them to keep up with their growing population, because they are such a small country they have made plans to expand on the ocean, but many environmental scholars have reached out and said that it would harm the marine life. The major problems with Monaco creating casinos and apartment buildings on the ocean is that they could possibly lose money, it causes sand erosion, and ig will kill and damage the homes of the marine animals on the coast of Monaco. One of the many things that would happen if they continue with this plan is that Monaco could face having financial troubles. According to The Telegraph Monaco has started to work on a €2 billion project that will take up to 15 acres from …show more content…

In different beaches around the world there is a problem with sand erosion. Sand erosion is the wearing away of land and the removal of beach or sand dunes sediments by water. Although the building of the structures in Monaco isn 't creating sand erosion directly it is still making sand erosion a bigger problem. The way that Monaco are building these structures on the ocean there is a lot of sand involved. After they have built the foundation they fill the sea trapped inside with various rocks and sand shipped from the beaches of Sicily. In Italy in various areas there has been threats of sand erosion, and they are trying to monitor coastal erosion of Northern Sicily. The more and the more buildings that are created the more and more sand that is removed which adds to the already existing problem of sand …show more content…

In the article by the telegraph environmentalist have tried to bring awareness to this issue, and say that it will damage the sea life around Monaco. Biologist Alexandre Meinesz said “the small stretch of shallow waters and off the shore before the sea rabidly deepens is a veritable nursery with five hundred types of seaweed and thousands of marine organisms and little fish.” He also said “covering over these shallow seabed will reduce the biodiversity.” The already existing ports have contributed to destroying its seabed, but won’t compare to the damage that will be created by the apartment complex. With all of everything that has gone on, and environmentalist warning Monaco they still say they will try to move the animals to a sanctuary, but there is not much they can do about the seaweed. They are working on ways to make artificial coral reefs and seaweed, but it will never be the same to the fish as the natural seaweed that is in the water. Everything you do has pros and cons, but the plans for Monaco to expand has too many cons and not enough pros. Monaco’s idea to expand isn’t bad if they could figure a way to do it that didn’t put their marine life and ecosystem at risk. The building of Monaco structures in the ocean comes the possibility of debt, the worsening of sand erosion,

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