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the atlantic coast of portugal, a natural wonder, almost 900 column. it is long. the portuguese and the sea have long been connected with another, but his relationship is in danger. the coast is crumbling away and to see his own ready swallowed up. hold of rows of houses. i fulfilled football, love you. the truth is negative time continues and we don't do anything about it. this beach might not be here much longer like yourself. portugal is desperately trying to fight back any human struggle against nature. the authorities replenishing the sand on the beaches and building protective barriers with citizens you getting politically involved to fight it. that the threat comes if in europe striking to

see it into the hearts of love to visit my government past my this leaf flooded into our house by the water was smashing against the wall and everything was shaking. we were really afraid to move me and 3 quarters of the portuguese population beat by the coast. what can they do when the scene becomes the enemy? how will people coping with the threat and how the authorities in the government realty vito cache is a fisherman. for generations, his family have been running a coastal village business in the region of available on the portuguese atlantic coast. murray, a default to not virgin mary of fatima is the name of the boat. vito and his colleagues take out to sea, but the fisherman's working conditions,

a getting worse, boosted them simply yellow mud. i'm always connected to the sea and have been for a long time global. i you. i've been living this life for over 40 years now and people xanda love you the law. i don't do it for the money. delicious. you barely earned anything nowadays fashion, van vomit group. it's about lies. i'm passionate about the of you, the feel. but you aren't very little, miss me. ah, today to see is come and the wind is mind. could conditions for the men and their boat. but coastal fishing has become increasingly difficult over the years. small fishermen barely make a living from they catch the sea. it was guaranteed a modest income to day. many fishermen do on social transfers and subsidies

ah and it seems a getting even more difficult to to climate change. stronger currents and coastal erosion quote is the fisherman from the muddy to fatima talk to later beach still offers plenty of space to vito's boat and the fisherman's equipment. but other beaches have already been swallowed up by the c. o for around now vito's true using their net it's a disappointing catch only if you macro and sardines and a handful of c brim and fuel tanks. the region around forever has long been considered a good fishing location. but then the problem started. vito can no longer fish

where he lives. 30 kilometers up the coast. it would have been up gimme a little while yet. it was practically no sandy beach left there anymore. yet not even enough room for a beach towel and all mcclellan was put. now imagine putting a boat here, re says it own craft fishing and ash muddy sh, where i live, is on the verge of extinction. which bomb it is? lilian vomit? but vito doesn't want to give up yet. ah, along almost the entire western coast of portugal, the sea is swallowing up sandy beaches in june's threatening entire villages. but county, any other part of the country's coastline is endangered as a puleo in the north of portugal. ah.

the development fills fishermen adriano re battle with dread? adriano mostly makes a living from squid fishing. the sand june still offer some protection but they are under immense pressure. thanks ingram facing grinders as the luna alice nava. i'm 55 years old. alabama is your man this june used to be here more or less or not. now daughter l m l. ethan warnock, e l l e m i z o mans blacky and now look around 8 meters of san june. have disappeared in the last few years. i didn't stop it just there and nobody is doing anything about it. my daughter. in as far as another pass ashbury, it's just

a matter of time before the water reaches the road, miles you put something in there. it's terrible. and what didn't give me that it was a some of it, if i'm not yes, movement was really to see advancing like this and with sea level was rising here. everyone is just talking about defending the host and is only one thing we can do to move back as far as a full size. good realism, the most important thing to do is to get rid of the stone break, florida over there as quickly as possible, put on it's one of the governments building measures and it has made everything was found out of the wall is what caused all the erosion in the area, we need to take it out and do something for the june, so we can protect these places of what bill since nobody else was taking action, adriano and his neighbors have been putting down sand saxon wooden stakes for years to protect the jews and houses assist in task which doesn't really hold back the

sea. on the contrary, morn will houses of fallen victim to the high tide, especially in winter. ah, close fly is the sheed. my little coolio around 30 seafood restaurants are located directly on the coastal road behind the jews. the restaurant icon is one of them. fishermen, adriano supplies, the restaurant was fish several times a week or you are doing some delicious little sod. aids are good and freshly cordova. oh, what i also have a few sea bass, a few small c brand as acute acute head bream and a sole direct from the sea and up julio, daniel, gang, a kid, a marcella,

boyer. but increasingly, adriano has to listen to the restaurant owners, worries and fears about the future. the sea is threatening to swallow up the food mile and people are saying that the local city council wants to tear down the restaurants for safety reasons. yet gastronomy is the cornerstone of the whole regions economy. a district general? what are lou? it's about jack also and the other restaurants in the neighbourhood router, but at least $80.00 to $100.00 jobs will be affected. have our but then there are around $300.00 jobs that would be indirectly affect. i think that's the bakeries letting the fisherman and agriculture walden, my article, dora most, no more restaurant owner of the viet as she was let down by the authorities. as an

alternative, he's demanding that a new food, mildly built further away from the silver. he shows adrena the spot mazda, and this is where the key is to populate a look at this big plot of land is not being used to provide it would be the ideal place for new restaurants that could be built higher up with us. so we still have a view of your c, rockville. why should double be so mad at over and it would be a big project, an ideal solution. essays get as yes, it would be a good solution for a full year, and we would all benefit from it. otherwise, i'd like, instead of leaving room is about that everything should just be demolished. that would mean the end of the livelihoods of abil vieira and the other restaurant to is in a paulia as well as this supplies for

the daughter of beach formerly asserting hot spot is also getting smaller and small . the by the year and the surfing is f trickier where they used to be sent and june's there are now large blocks of granite to protect the town. jewel, paolo runs the surf camp in full doodle and is very worried. every morning he prepares his equipment, the setting camp is his greatest question. he's afraid to housing, his sport, and his business. if you please give surf here that i shall thank or why would i make a living from tourism here from surfing lodge? i live in the passion, i have for water and the c a set up for my the party cannot get my invite the shuttle progression every day. every year the advance of the sea is getting worse

and it's economically leaving me behind her voice to rock wherever they shiprock. what are the briefing? this used to be a very popular breach instead of vitamin and now people just end up going to other places, better for surfing, bush and all the mileage which is terrifying for me and my staff and your thoughts please. he said school is still going well. 20 young people have registered his weekend course. dow surfing lessons take place with the beach is still wide enough around one kilometer away from the center of food at all. he has the hassle of transporting all his equipment in the way they is getting longer than once. with that he said, what will happen if the beach disappears completely?

lisbon, portugal coastline and the problems of coastal erosion of the responsibility of the central government in ish, costa, the secretary of state, responsible for the issue and the environment ministry is aware of the problems for her protecting the coast is portugal biggest environmental see challenge over 1000000000 euros have been spent on the protection of seaside towns and beaches in the last 10 years. might look exhausted to rocks down this year to year. nice that else about more than hard protective structures that yelp review. it's about social factors about people. yoga. when i look at pictures from a puleo, yeah, i have to say it is very difficult to add to mood complaint. we may have to abandon places like these because the safety of the inhabitants is at stake. the what they're going to die. gossips isn't as good as the that it was in the environmental

ministry. they now know that expensive construction measures and not able to protect all places from the sea in his home town of as maricia, fishermen, vito is fighting for survival. he's been politically active in his local community for years as a mediator between the town council and the affected residence until recently color santo, she lived with her children in a house directly behind this wall. ah me as it at my house was here mad directly in front of the si, fi, camille. this was the entrance. nottingham was room. there was one door facing a c i. but we kept it locked or seen, that we only use the back door as it other. the key valley who might have it the see has gotten more difficult over the years. but apple, so i started leaving my house from that way shopping. i could put a lien dasa you them, you guys are pulling up. that sounds like

a dangerous situation. if you didn't, no, not, not. and we didn't have a chance, was se so it was very difficult to pick up the children. when the tide was high, garza especially in the winter if you could go down to sleep number dampen by, the tides were to bear county. i found that i am barbara, adam adam won't, wouldn't. then vito also schumann and politician, accompanies the family to their new home. it's quite close by just 300 meters in land in a newly built settlement. carla santos and her daughters recently moved into this settlement, built by the town council. vito accompanied the project from the very beginning yesterday, but i am only oh he this is our new home or it

doesn't rain in both of them. davis wacked my daughters now each have their own bedroom and i have a double room. your wife redeem, gathered my face by means of your own. i would never have thought that i would have a room to myself. no deal more. we lived in miserable conditions before he knew mcgowan diaz got reviewed in emulator, goes and keep him home and look in the bathroom. now we have a shower where and going bus via back. then we only had a wash base any him without her right now, at least we have the basics for my children. fiances, properly could beach a few minutes drive from lisbon, with the wrench to meet the secretary of state from the environmental ministry here . oh, any safety measures have been taken here in recent years. and what was i said that

well, the mot it like would be my one thing is certainly the sea level will continue to rise as one of the consequences of climate change a lot in the 60 years between 1958 and 20 t portugal last 3rd 100 square kilometers of host leo. that's a lot. do you want? we've already lost too much territory to the sea. he thought it not up to them or mine. portugal coastline is under threat. so what is the central government doing about this in concrete terms? one of the most expensive measures is beach nourishment, sucking up sand from the sea bed to port back on to the beaches. thank god again, it's z man, so lot of what we gather the sand from off shore. brian gets into the catalog on their son in law school and in general, we don't see it being wash crack out to see what it does happen. i will say, lack of will patch in the soil. the man who bought masked boys were very, it's

a big investment, but it pays off with and it will have a cascading effect which allows us to mitigate against further coastal erosion. we meet with the got a fight we can see how beach nourishment looks on the coast of central portugal. a 1000000 cubic meters of sand being sucked up from the sea bed and pulled on to the beach using giant pipes. it's an expensive solution. the diesel to run the pumps costs hundreds of thousands alone. the works are observed with a critic lined by the population and by antonio san gabriel. but each leader of the small seaside town of south pedro de gala. he inspects the large building size on the beach daily offering answers to the skeptical residence.

gloria vienna gala long. what if a giant wave comes the sand will be washed away again hotly. what is they do? it was the some the deals lead the no, it won't let the nash the over the tubes will stay here permanently at your school. usually even when we need to replenish the sandy is don't be we'll just move it back here. let's see that it got together, but i years a thought that regard of the link rather the vital party that we'll pick up on monday. okay. so we are prepared to put them on a boat, but with the granular. yes, absolutely. right now you just the sand, but underneath we have submerged biodegradable pipes in 3 layers that are 300 made as long as the sequel is gone. 3 isn't bad. is that part of next year? we're planning to replenish more than 3000000 cubic meters on the so al beaches

always have enough sand that there is music med school be to that i. yep, a 3rd barrario, but the broad of the year. as part i use your point of view, the empty the kid i to est results in portugal are doing more and more to prevent the beaches from disappearing into the say for for, for sort of just go that way. you can see we used to be dunes. yeah. but now all we have is rocks and nothing. all that. my mother serv instructed, joelle is skeptical and takes his students on an environmental to lived the beach community. who were those rocks? are there used to be dunes a few years ago with small flowers and i'm still doesn't as martinez, i was forcing us, but all that vegetation was lost with the advantage. the see me. all of us will my

he 2nd group are gonna get the sand. the government keeps replenishing here, cannot replace the noun, whispers, and costs millions of euro's, and he, he was last, you're going, your osh was, is having, i don't think it's going to work. the city will continue to advance as the earth gets warmer. smith yeah, causes all of his new supper then jordan shows his students the damage witcher's almost daily, along the beach from an odd but at mid market. look at how the c attacks, the stone walls over product your theme. it's hard to imagine it, but the so can take away these heavy stones. and then sadly, it could destroy the 1st line of houses on the beach to cover the by 3 for my coastal erosion. his central causes, construction blunders, climate change,

and population pressures. 3 quarters of the portuguese population lives on the coast and a quarter of the portuguese shoreline is affected by the problem. while, when you are give you that market limited look what i recorded last winter at exactly the same spot in place. but as you mentioned, little the can look at this avenue here really bit of me that because he developed didn't indicate that no yellow capitol. the water is hitting this cafe, fostering the whole terrace, the people dips them into a doctor, fit for the rest of it. was just wiped out of the kettle and then the telephone with us for another study part of the week or to go to your mac up into funny. got keep it. but i often there's, there's feathers was it was rocks you see here from the stone malware. so vermont 40 meters away with a met. unbelievable o

. 2 ish lariche, beatrice hometown, in the final stages of the local election campaign. legal is standing as voluntary town counseling for the governing social democrats. he speaks told the residents personally supported by the local mer, he's made coastal erosion. the key issue, if you selection campaign so it will be been a while since some of the residents we've resettled used to live here working. they were seriously affected by the rising senior govern government. oh, thank god, things are better. no good. after that, we'll do it as the other one. is that the what he would keep fighting for you today at to morrow? law? you bob, i'm a yeah. i got one boat per

t shirt. you're the best that this done as well. oh, this local election is all about the best concepts to protect the residents and the homes from the scene a. have you been down here yet? hello. no. let's go to where our friend our daughter lives. because it has a villa that with a boy, a key that plays a miss ramirez here on ish, morisha beach and families lived in constant fear, especially in the winter would be bad because what the central government latin promised money for will settlement backlighting, $80.00 with. but this money never came over. good, good. oh no. we built the necessary homes ourselves with money from the local, the construction. he's will be back to it hasn't received a new house yet, but i'm sure he is please for his neighbors who have been able to move in to know

how to work for the 1st week of the 3. huh. yes, i can confirm that. okay, uh, total. have faith, wife, or for your wish? that late the election campaign event ends in social housing settlement. bo, alyssa, good hope? the residence here a happy that they no longer live behind the crumbling jeans by the sea, but in a new cipher homes. oh oh wow. once again, karla santos shows herself as a steadfast funnel at the fisherman and local politician vito. the mood among the campaigns is more cheerful when not everyone believes that the problem of coastal erosion could be sold by building new houses. isn't vanderpool good if possible to step by step, we're finding our way forward a see. luckily, if we win the election, gonna will continue our resettlement program of it and building our neighborhood

right over there. ok, st. present the old to le bumped up in a pulley, and the mood is considerably more pessimistic than an ash maurice. the news has arrived for the government in lisbon is serious about tearing down the restaurants on june's. the hope is that this will allow the natural june landscape to gradually recover. fishman, adriano feels, let down. he now has his own plan to save the village. he asked an architect to draw him a model and has been trying to convince his neighbors for weeks. has a look at this model concrete break. what it should be submerged into the sea around 300 meters from the coast. mice would help. hi, this is none here. marty thought to live stream once? yes. what?

yes. what about weakening the power of the waves and we have that will be one possible solution you have is mccoy. zekiel is proudly wrapped ourselves feathers, no price that of if it is up at the portable my right to the for my suggestion we that of a humble fisherman who has lived here his whole life away. they haven't got that. yeah, yeah. you that he'll be there reckless gra matter. you could only be a benefit for the jewish war, but also for the shipment of the sea floor and foreigner. and we fishermen would have more to cash florida will buy one as well as through ebel. but the vision looks like you resume video facility i. brianna is clinging to his project. he sees an implementation of it soon as the last chance for the fisherman's huts and restaurants other puleo a lot quicker fronting as a walk it to them. i think it would be a relatively cheap lesson, which would avoid wasting money back is the other way. nike as one that you're given. you start go muscle. so you have to save this place. a lot of village has

history and we intend to go. mice made extra, well, don't see all somebody else. you know, sometimes atlanta can't hide his anger and disappointment at those in pal in lisbon . gonna go. i would agree if the government took measures to protect the june something quite aggressive. i would agree to anything that is for the good of these communities. but in the meantime, i no longer have faith in it for this in so all i've heard is, is lip service. and are you all i don't understand why the government protects other places, but not ours. what's different here from other places get, get the friends. they're not 2nd with others with us. are 3 i know is fighting to save his home town, but he in a poor in particular it seems that humans have lost their fight against nature.

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