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thailand spectacular rocky islands. fine grained sandy beaches turquoise blue water. just how you imagine a holiday destination more than 9000 kilometers away from cold old germany. and this is the reality tourists flocking to sites like the famous james bond on land where roger moore for the bad guys are secret agent double 07 today it's all about selfies and self-expression. the moves that when you see these guys walking around in swimming trunks was a little undignified i'd say absolutely no good because they look terrible but it was to be expected it was marketed that way to. thailand's drain beaches are

suffocating in plastic garbage. untreated waste water is discharged straight into the sea. tens of thousands of small cars explore the underwater landscape and cause a record low damage to the sensitive coral reefs by trampling all over them. in the last 2 years we have found that more than 70 is so. bad mish at every damage so all we expect that if we don't do anything. so how much damage does mass tourism cause that i'll question.

that. the 1st journey is the town of the cat in the south of thailand most vacationers here head to the beach but tom. the wide sandy bay fascinated us when we came here for the 1st time 8 years ago. on the beach and a bit of adventure different. vacation dreams that. it. took the number of tourists coming to thailand has more than doubled since then

now it's more than 34000000 people every year what changes has that brought about. the next morning we see the downside of master is a local diving instructors regularly fish garbage out of the sea by the suck cloud . their business depends on keeping the natural environment as intact as possible. what do they find in the sea nets from the trawlers entering the sea off the tongue of fish. of course fresh fish is a food staple for both the locals and the hordes of terrorists. but diving instructor take wilson says the fishing nets are endangering the coral reefs off the coast. so depends on the type of that if it's a if it's

a rope type net then they can colonise up but it is a plastic type that going to cause a lot of damage not a long time and that's because a lot of the corals. dinette settle on the fragile corals i literally read them up dave wilson has found a lot today in addition to all the other plastic garbage trying bottles single use plastic this is the biggest threat to the environment. at the moment and a lot of people's opinion. as well stuff plastic but. the wrappers that the plastic bubbles come in. so with the way they just get blown away into the say . this will have again more examples of that. and so the garbage generated by millions of tourists is increasingly choking the

cats one species or 4 beaches. even the monkeys have learned to drink from plastic cups. the internationally renowned marine ecologist tom come on the most about has been studying the effects of plastic waste on the ecosystem for the last decade. the 1st thing you see is the big question is just how is the koranic and covert of horror so if you. breathe get the ax yeah the water movement is stopped because it's from a cold war like a human. birthday yet you cannot so why that is

a big problem and also the net i think is mean although sort of fishing never something like that nylon or something like that crack to the cholera and when that's already pegged it out so then rules troops wrong enough to track all the horrible. cuts self we want to find out what consequences the increasing environmental pollution caused by tourism has for the carl release of the cat so we join a diving trip to the island of cobra chocked. so we can forget about spending a quiet day alone the next natural paradise there are dozens of ships out there.

in 2010 to cover a child for the 1st time and found an underwater world of them chanting peacey. a leopard chock harmless to humans. eat elaine. the. mean in huge sponges and colorful corals on a sea bed in the. union . of the others so how's it looking now for what has changed. us in our 1st impression

the underwater world is still in many places species rich and beautiful. but we were still more impressed by the diving here in 2010 than we are today leave. now the water is a lot claudia and we find garbage in many places on the sea bass. and the carla showing the effects of climate change as well. if the water is too warm it eats away the sensitive coral sea. but sewage garbage and too many divers are also leaving a mark. a carpet of plastic waste is floating on the surface of the water the current has pushed the garbage from the open sea into the bank. it's becoming more and more common in land.

in the late afternoon we return to the fantastic island walled off good catch. for the next day we booked a trip to the p.-p. islands probably the most beautiful islands and southern thailand. we start with some shopping into cat harbor we're supposed to buy bathing machines that will protect us from shop edge corals a pair costs around 8 euros and a lot of being solved. by them either. of us. at last resort or for the world famous islands. the music on board

fights with the sound of a $500.00 horsepower engine. on the way we stop at a coral reef for a bit of snow and. a. few people on board have ever had anything to do with masks and snorkels and a lot of them can't swim either. one speedboat after another ferries the snow close to the reefs. thousands of tourists every day trashing the fragile reef.

protech aides karl polyps have built up the reef a millimeter by millimeter. now and a lot of that mr straw and in just a few minutes. it's really hard to make that people understand how to be after i understand it they don't want to harm the whole road but they don't know but they don't understand they come from the inland. whatever that made my beautiful country the number have already fall so they don't have any understanding about a forest because the back country they know horowitz you live. in the yeah.

please. please. leave. the in. the b.b. islands are actually especially protected national park. but since the organizers of the day trips discovered them for themselves millions of tourists have been visiting the picturesque rock islands and killing off nature but by day. except next all the so-called monkey that

a real tourist attraction. to. then we see 3 monkeys on the rocks with tourists on 6 people that's crowding around the best. yeah we have more to add to quite tree. at the p.p.i. let is only 14 square. and. so you can expect that when you crowd you i think the p.p.i. that maybe. the consequences are devastating. and just you it runs a dire center on the p.p.i.

. he isn't prepared to accept that she would and his team have been monitoring the state of the underwater world for years repeatedly diving to count the corals and document the damage. again today andrew hewett is on the way with his underwater camera in the popular diving areas. we need to really respect that the more people. the more impact is going to

reset there has to be a maximum limit that we can. cut off people visiting an area or any one particular . if we just let it go and let people do whatever they want they can get out of control and you can see there's a big difference in the health of the callers when there's too many people. for the 1st time the tile forties have reacted to the world famous my ebay where the movie the beach with leonardo dicaprio was shot has been closed to terrorists for several months to give the corals a chance to recover. i think i have mixed feelings about it i think it's very good that we do things like that. but if you just close one area then you have to expect that all the people that go to one area then going to go to another area and put pressure on another area. you

can see what happens here on the main island people don't. since maya day has been closed the day trippers are brought to this beach hi nina turns into a gigantic speedboat parking lot. after a selfie at the beach it's a short walk into the village. and maybe some fast food before we move on to the next attraction so what do the people who live on people don't get from the daytrippers we visit the tao restaurant which offers thai cuisine at reasonable prices. but the n.s.a. he has few customers. has overrun by tourists he's fighting for his existence.

in a bank so and up there. hardly any tourists come here. the restaurants that have the most guests are on the beach the boats out. there the tourists always want to keep. they're afraid if they come into the village they might get lost. p.p. don is the only island here that has permanently inhabited the thousands of day trippers have not brought prosperity to the people here. tourism companies earn money from the excursions but the locals often only have jobs at the time minimum wage of just under $9.00 euros per day. the interior of the island looks like many places on cat waste disposal is

a big problem. this old man is trying fish one of the local staple foods he sells it to his neighbors he tells us. he says he's doing it because he doesn't know what else he can do. he tells us the flies out particularly annoying so he has to keep the fish in plastic bags to keep them away. no incomes are not the only problem the people on p.p. don't have. the island's exposed location means it's also prone to natural

disasters we notice signs saying evacuation route if a tidal wave a tsunami is heading towards the island both local. and tourists are supposed to flee to safety but where does the escape route actually lead. we follow the signs. after a few meters it ends at an iron gate a death trap in an emergency. escape routes were set up after the last 3 nami with international donations but today the danger seems to be forgotten and not only on the p.p. and it's. december 200-4700 people died as a result of the tsunami on people don't. a few 100 kilometers away in the tourist

town of kalak it claimed more than 3000 victims. holidaymakers filmed it with video cameras. but today almost nothing and kalak recalls the catastrophe. the force of the tidal wave held as coast guard patrol boat a kilometer into the hinterland it was left as a memorial and the tsunami memorial museum was built right next to it. looking at. the memorial lives from the nation's ratchanok one tongue to the curator tells us. these photos from december 2004 show relaxed by this

and in the background the incoming tidal wave. the museum does not only want to remind people it also wants to make them or where of the danger because there is little time left after a sea quake before the tidal wave reaches the coast. this graph shows how the 2004 tsunami spread. but what the authorities in the tourist resort of learned from the catastrophe. we noticed that almost the entire coast is covered with large hotel complexes. the guests there will be the 1st victims of a hotel's past. are there any emergency plans. and . they have any plan to. come because.

we don't know. how many times that we have to really it. and what about the escape routes that we're stuck with international aid after 2004 to the people here in ca like to take the dangerous seriously we follow the signs again. we're not far from the nearest shelter. thousands of inhabitants and tourists should be able to find safety that. we eventually find it. it's full of furniture. and there's an elevator for the disabled but it's derelict the power hasn't worked for a long time. after this enemy we have. fought by. bad now many are. broken and. that.

doesn't work anymore. now. many. and many are. where. the lessons of the 2004 disasters seem to have been forgotten. we continue on to the next destination of our journey planning not national park. and our excursion here is well organized 1st we explore the small base by travel but that's a source of income for the locals. a boatman here at about 13 years per day which by thai standards is a wage they can live on. a thought. on

that stuff in the tour is a case. now at low tires when the water level we can pass through the cape to the interior of the island.

but we're not alone here either. dozens of tourists from other excursion boats are also here marveling at the bizarre rock formations and the mighty mangrove rupes. is. the travel brochure he says will get lunch here. and original muslim fishing village built on stilts in the sea.

the original village quickly turns out to be a collection of tourist restaurants and souvenir shops after all $10000000.00 visitors pass through here every year all of them pay the $2.00 operators a flat rate for their lunch so the locals get little benefit from it. after lunch we look at the see the knish ops. shark's teeth are very popular this year. this $1.00 costs around 40 euros but german customs duties will increase that price several fold shock shocks are a threatened species so just like corals and shells this object to the convention on international trade an endangered species of wild foreigner and flora and the import of the souvenirs to germany is prohibitive. otherwise you can buy t. shirts caps and scarves just like everywhere else.

finally hidden at the back of the village we find the locals hot they are muslims so perhaps they are bothered by the lightly dressed europeans. this local asks us to buy a souvenir from her she lives off the train she says and has no other income wonder . when they. located. 2 hours later we had off to the high point of our discussion.

this is probably the most famous walk in the world. roger moore alias james bond shot scenes for the movie the man with the guy. gun here. but today the villains are all gone hold of his left off fountains of tourists who all want just one thing . a selfie to show that they were there.

because how do you like it here. you know it's ok ok and all the people terrible but it was to be expected it was marketed this way. what do you think same here the same but still beautiful. but that's another thing we should have come another time perhaps in the morning or evening. but would that have helped. the crowds of tourists surged through the small island from early in the morning until late in the evening the. rest of this is that when you see these guys walking around in swimming trunks a little undignified i'd say. something good.

at the other end of the island there are more souvenir stalls selling the same travel season as to which the scenes are planned it. like this tiger shot in the. james bond island and the pun non-national park. income as the island is really called is a natural j. and it has degenerated into a tourist hot spot. we set off for the last stop of our journey before we returned.

we reached the island of cutout off the southeast coast of time and. when you see these beaches you can hardly believe that cotto was a prison island until 947. today it's more about wellness time acids as a specialty here young people and scuba divers are particularly drawn to kowtow. we remember the pictures we shot here in 2010. mannion. and earlier in. the year there was an abundance of fish. both shot crossed i.

shouldn't get too close to them sometimes they also attack people. or the way. back to the present. simon dowling and dorothy new from the environmental association in cocoa tau take us out to sea. they want to show us what's changed since we 1st came here a whole fleet of boats awaits us at the dive site.

diving is a mass of n.t.'s thousands crowd the few die sites. in a bad world the union suddenly they come across a whale shark the biggest fish in the world it's harmless to humans. in the in the it with the died as a completely over the moon. but now we see the consequences here destroyed coral. there are definitely too many tourists here if we could limit the number of

terrorists or change their marine status it would help a lot. and limitation as well fishing is also a big impact on everest the 3 sail back to kowtow. we're always under observation because our shoes on the island are strictly monitored by the tourist police were meant to just show the good parts. of west secretly shooting these pictures from the garbage and many tourists ends up in islands interior and unofficial dumps like this. the waste water flows untreated into the sea in many places. $1500000.00 tourists visit the town every year. the sea is polluted which also damages the corals.

in the afternoon when dorothy leaf from the cocoa tower again she's welding a metal construction at the point of which is not immediately apparent. i'm a steel structure in the shape of a triple masted chinese junk for our car a garden in a junkyard an artificial reef. this is the plant karl branches are placed on a metal structures over time they grow into an artificial reef. and.

it's hard work. and a vigil pieces of half a car all are tied to the construction where they grow over the years. it will. make. many diving tourists now look at the artificial reef in all. but don't know if we do our part to build and expand the artificial reefs then you know i think it gives the other dive sites a chance to recover. as we drive back from the town to cairns we think. this could be one way into the future artificial coal race as an attraction for driving traverse to take the pressure off a natural environment it's a great idea that has already become reality on the town.

on the way back we constantly meet the fishing boats that are overfishing the sea. fast every morning fully laden trail. in a school a child on the catfish impetus that catches offloaded by the time the. millions of tourists one thing above all else fresh sea fish on that place the fish are sorted according to size on the key size. of this ship. and me pale light cause they're. still in the here and. the fact that.

lot. of. fish has become expensive onto cat this is especially true for the larger fish which go directly to the tourist restaurants. the smaller ones are sold on the market. that's the real problem says the buyer. of the big. mainland mainly us. business is tough in order to catch the coveted big fish the try to stay at sea for days on end. the fishermen themselves and then least from this business. many of these guest workers from neighboring me in the mouth. they get just 2 or 3 euros

a day they say but nobody will confirm mass in front of the camera. the tourists who admired a fresh fish and paquette knew nothing about all this. parrot fish for example typically inhabit coral reefs when it cools the nets destroy the corals. while the fishes and then prepared in a restaurant for a small fee. and on the beach right behind a restaurant. this place looks like so many other places waste and sewage from

restaurants flowing untreated into the sea. what would be the best way to further develop tourism in thailand the pacific asia travel organization which is committed to responsible tourism says the government in far off bangkok is planning to increase the number of tourists to 15000000 per year. companies and the most from the hordes of tourists while the people here at the time beach work in the kitchens for minimum wage or sell chilled drinks on the beach. it's already crowded enough at the beach and high season. and more tourists.

to tang's manor she is aware that tourism is the most important source of income. nevertheless she's worried about the plans coming out of bangkok. but up and joy killed you all and the casualties and there's a lot going on in high season that night oh by the way my think it's ok right now but he said michael but if more come it'll be difficult jack i'm going to get as far as the water supply sewage garbage and transport are concerned and i think we are already at the limit and that half. the country needs a rational and sustainable tourism development policy she says development that takes not only economic interests but also the interests of people nature and the environment into account. otherwise thailand will soon cease to be

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