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atlantic coast of portugal and natural wonder only 900 kilometers long. the portuguese in the sea have long been connected with another, but this relationship is in danger. the coast is crumbling away and to see his own ready swallowed up, hold the brooms of houses. i fulfilled football. log in to the new fizz negative trend continues and we don't do anything about it. the speech might not be here much longer with portugal is desperately trying to fight back in a human struggle against nature. the authorities replenishing the sand on the beaches and building protective barriers. citizens getting politically involved to fight it. but the threat comes if in

europe striking fear into the hearts of the residence. well my never been passed. my defeat flooded into our house by the water was smashing again. so long as everything was shaken, we were really afraid to move me in 3 quarters of the portuguese population by the coast. what can they do in the sea? becomes the enemy. how a people could pin with the threat and how the authorities in the government ah, he took the, she had a, is a fishman 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 to ship them. simply elma, simply, 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 or anything nowadays? ration bomb of look, 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. good conditions for the men in their boat. but coastal fishing has become increasingly difficult over the years. small fishermen barely make a living from a catch. the sea had was guaranteed a modest income to day. many fishermen do on social transfers and some cities

and seems getting even more difficult to to climate change. stronger currents and coastal erosion quote is the fisherman from the muddy defact him to lead a 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 an hour, vito's true use and then net. it's a disappointing catch only if you mackerel and sardines and a handful of c brim and fuel tanks to 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 that was practically no sandy beach left there anymore. not even enough room for a beach towel and all that while i was put now imagine putting a boat here, re says wrong crowd of fishing. and ash maurice where i live, is on the verge of extinction, was from it is bullish bomb. it won't but veto doesn't want to give up yet. along almost the entire western coast of portugal, the sea is swallowing up sandy beaches in june's threatening entire villages. by hunting any other part of the country's coastline is as endangered as

a puleo. in the north was portugal the development fields fishermen, anteriano rivera with drained, adriano mostly makes a living from squid fishing. the sand june still offer some protection, but they are under immense pressure. thank ingram, facing grinders. as the donor ls harbor, i'm 55 years old, alabama show me this june used to be here more or less or not. now daughter l m l s t o in ocoee, elena michelle manns blacky and now look around 8 meters of san june. have disappeared. in the last few years, i didn't spell it just though, and nobody's 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, my sheep were pump. it's terrible. and what didn't give me that it was some of it didn't give us non yes, momentum was really to see advancing like did. and with sea level was rising here, every one is just talking about defending the host and is only one thing we can do to move back as far as because good realism, the most important thing to do is to get rid of the stone bright florida over there as quickly as possible, but 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 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 a seat. on the contrary, morn will houses of fallen victim to the high tide, especially in winter. ah, close fly is the shoot mom of the cool. yeah. around 30 seafood restaurants are located directly on the coastal road behind the jews. the restaurant i cabana is one of them fishermen, adriano supplies, the restaurant was fish several times a week or even a lawyer. some delicious little sardines are good and freshly cordova. oh, when i also have a few c basil, a few small c, bram is a cute, a guilty bream and a sole direct from the sea and uphill. we have annual gang

a kilowatt hour earlier, 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. i just like general, what are lou? it's about jack was also in the other restaurants in the neighborhood graph. at least $80.00 to $100.00 jobs would be affected. then there are around $300.00 jobs that would be indirectly effect. i think that's the bakeries letting the fisherman and agriculture local do my article, dora most go more restaurant,

owner of the viet a few let down by the authorities. as an alternative, he's demanding that a new food mile be built for through i from the silver he shows at rianna to spot north films is like he is spotless to 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 lesser we still have a view of the c rockville was for double be so mad at i don't remember, it would be a big project, an ideal solution. face get as a yes, a 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 above vienna and the other restaurant twos in a puleo as well as this supplies

for the daughter of beach formerly asserting hot spot is also getting smaller and smaller by the year. and the surfing is at the trickier where they used to be sent . and june's there are now large blocks of granite to protect the town. juwal, paolo runs the surf camp in full doodle and is very worried. every morning he prepares his equipment. a certain camp is his greatest question. he's afraid of losing his sport and his business. if you've looked reasonably, viv surf here, the by shark tank or why would i make a living from tourism here from surfing lodge? i live from the passion i have for water and the see, a setup for my. the party cannot get the main bite. they should potash every day.

every year the advance of the sea is getting worse and it's economically leaving me behind her voice to go wherever they should. seabrook, what other perfume? this used to be a very popular ph, instead of forming a now people just end up going to other places, better for surfing bush and aldo my, which is terrifying for me and my staff. and without these he said school is still going well. 20 young people have registered his weekend course. joelle's surfing lessons take place with the beach is still wide enough. around one kilometer away from the center of food, a doro. he has the hassle of transporting all his equipment and 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 asia 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, mildly exhausted, growl logs 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 so it is very difficult to add to to complain. we may have to abandon places like these because the safety of the inhabitants is at stake. the what they

wanted, i gossips isn't us, would as it, as it was i 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 fisherman veto 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 residents until recently. carla santos. she lived with her children in a house directly behind this wall. i am your cousin 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 se, but we kept it locked or seen, that we only use the back door as it as the key valley. oh might have it. the see has gotten more difficult over the years, but avenue. so i started leaving my house from that way shopping. i could put

a lien dasa you them, you guys a bullying. let sounds like a dangerous situation as if you didn't. no, no, 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, if you could go down to sleep number dampen, but the tides were too big round that about that i am thought ada 8 my days wouldn'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 daughter's recently moved into this settlement. built by the town council. vito accompanied the project from the very beginning. yes me, but i hear you go. oh he this is our new home or it

doesn't rain in but them they were slacked. my daughter's now each have their own bedroom and i have a double room. your wife, we didn't get my friends. i mean civilian, i would never have thought that i would have a room to myself. no d m o. we lived in miserable conditions before he knew mcgowan diaz cook. i had no review them emulator that goes a key him up and look in the bathroom. now we have a shower, where and going buffy back then we only had a wash base id in missouri. now at least we have the basics for my children. the answers properly could beach a few minutes drive from lisbon, with the wrench to meet the secretary of state from the environmental ministry here . any safety measures have been taken here in recent years.

and what was i said that we rel might 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 6 years between 19582018 portugal lost 1300 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 might offer them all my portuguese 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. ask again, it's the man so laudable. we gather the sand from off shore. brian has been guessing the cow hollow, no contessa in moscow, and in general, we don't see it being washed crack out to see what it does happen. i exactly will

patch in this orange. the mantra will patch masked boys, whether it's a big investment, but it pays off. we and it will have a cascading effect which allows us to mitigate against further coastal erosion. we need to be 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 critical eye by the population and by antonio san gabriel village leader of the small seaside town of south pietro da gala. he inspects the lodge building size on

the beach, daily offering answers to the skeptical residence of yet a gallows on what if a giant wave comes, the sand will be washed away again, only when you think good was to somebody else lead the no, it won't them there's that there's the over, the chiefs will stay here permanently at your school. you shouldn't be able to handle when we need to replenish the sandy and don't be we'll just move it back here. let's see the got to give us. but i years, a thought regarding the length of the matter up rocky, the blue creek up with okay, so we are prepared. what about but with the regular? yes, absolutely. right now you just the and is with bus. 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, but of next year we are 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 have a 3rd radi but the broader that i yeah. as but i use the up on the, the empty the get i to est, results in portugal are doing more and more to prevent the beaches from disappearing into the sea. for for 1st one of which is go that way. you can see we used to be dunes. yeah. but now all we have is rocks and nothing else. you might have. serv instructed, joelle is skeptical and takes his students an environmental to lived the beach community. who were those rocks? are there used to be dunes a few years ago with small flowers on them?

it doesn't, as much cleaners will tell us for seniors, but all that vegetation was lost with the band of the see me over for the my you 2nd group or give the fan the government keeps replenishing here cannot replace the noun, whispers, and costs. millions of euro's general key evolved lives on launch bureaus. what for? sorry, i don't think it's going to work smartphones receive. we'll continue to advance as the earth gets warmer with yet all of his new stuff up then jewel shows his students the damage witcher's almost daily along the beach promenade. but it meant that mothers look at how he attacks the stone wall or at your feet. it's hard to imagine it, but the silken take away these heavy stones and then sadly, it could destroy the 1st line of houses on the beach to cover the by 3 or

my coastal erosion has several courses, construction blunders, climate change, and population precious. 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 clinic look what i recorded last winter at exactly the same spot with this as you message little bit, you look at this avenue here, really bit of me that bill fidel up significantly. no, we all got for the water is hitting this cafe, fostering the whole terrace, the people dipped. a dr. fit for the rest of it was just wiped out at the top. and then the telephone was for another part of the week, or 2, cookie mac, up into funny ducky. but what i often there's, there's feathers was, it was rocks you see here from the stone mall were swept irma 40 meters away with

a batch. unbelievable. 2 ish lariche beatrice hometown in the final stages of the local election campaign . lito 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 his election campaign personally been wednesday, some of the residents we've resettled used to live here. i will keep they were seriously affected by the rising senior, govern government. oh, thank god things are better now to get out of this little boy and as a little busy. right, one of the what eat we'll keep fighting for you today and tomorrow. la, uva, i'm

a yeah. i suppose present. i get one vote for t shirt. you're the best that there's a ton of money. oh, this local election is all about the best concepts to protect the residents and the homes from his senior rep about the other day. and what have you been done? he yet, philip. no, let's go to where our friend altura lives. does he like as a villa? said little with a. oh, oh oh, what a key that plays a miss ramirez here on ish, maurice beach and families lived in constant fear, especially in the winter would be bearable because what the central government in bourbon promised money for the settlement. backlighting, 80 percent. yeah, but this money never came if was a good oh no, we built the necessary homes ourselves with money from the local administration. items yoke will be our tour hasn't received in your house yet,

but i'm sure he is please for his labor to have been able to move into more healthy . what were the 1st week of the 3 years or i can confirm that heading up to it. hold have faith over your wish that await the election campaign event. ensign social housing settlement for elisa. good hope the residents here a happy that they no longer live behind to crumbling jeans by the sea, but in a new cipher homes. oh wow. once again, karla santos shows herself as a steadfast front of the fisherman and local politician. be to the mood among the campaigns is more when not everyone believes that the problem of coastal erosion could be solved by building new houses in bainbridge school. good. if possible to step by step, we're finding our way forward, the silk bodies. if we win the election,

i gotta go continue our resettlement program and building our neighborhood. all right over there. ok. same present to, oh, to le, packed up in a poorly and the mood is considerably more pessimistic than in ash marie sh. the news has arrived for the government. and lisbon is serious about tearing down the restaurants on the june's. the hope is that this will allow the natural june and skate 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 the model and has been trying to convince his neighbors for weeks. as a look at this model concrete break, what is should be submerged into the sea, around 300 meters from the coast. mice would help offset it's high. us this you

know here, marty. it was bullied fema once. yes. what? yes. what about weakening the power of the waves of them? yeah, that will be one possible solution you have is mccoy. zekiel is proudly that was almost breathless. never, i said with zappa affordable my right to the for my suggestion we that of a humble fisherman who has lived here his whole life went away. they haven't they yet? you daddy, every directness gra matter. you could only be a benefit for the genius of water, but also for the shipment of the sea floor and foreigner. and we fishermen would have more to cash over. but one of us have over the vision, looks like you resume very off of interview. adriano is clinging to his project, he sees an implementation as soon as the last chance for the fisherman's huts and restaurants, other puja m. okay. for kim bunting at the walk, it towed in. i think it would be a relatively cheap lesson, which would avoid wasting money back. you see the way nikki has one. you're given

you spetchko muscle. so you have to say this place zillow. a village has history, and we intend to go my snail next on. well don't y'all, don't bill c o? sometimes atlanta can't hide his anger and disappointment at those in pallet in lisbon gone gone. i would agree if the government took measures to protect the june. so what aggressive court 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. and so all i've heard for sheila is, is lip service in a re. well, i don't understand why the government protects other places, but not ours. what's different here from other places get, get the friends and not like me, the others with us? adriano is fighting to save his hometown, but he in a puja in particular,

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