over the world are in a race against time. they are peers and rivals with one daring goal to outsmart nature. more life starts may 28th on d, w. d o, the atlantic coast of portugal, a natural wonder, almost 900 kilometers long. to portuguese in the sea have long been connected with another, but his relationship is in danger. the coast is crumbling away and to see his already swallowed up whole the rows of houses with fulfill football login. if his negative trend

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 getting politically involved to fight it. that the threat comes, if in europe striking fear into the hearts of the residence, we'll make them pass modestly 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 by the coast. what can they do in the sea to come to the enemy? how a people coping the threat and how the authorities in the government

ah, ah. fetal cache is a fisherman for generations. his family have been running a coastal village business in the region of a vehicle on the portuguese atlantic coast. murray, a default to not the gen, 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. simply hello my tip. 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. did people xanda love you the law? i don't do it for the money. delicious. you barely or anything nowadays flashing bad mom of look. it's about life and passionate amid the of you. the feel of, but you aren't very little skin ah,

today to see is come and the wind is mind. could conditions for the men in their boat. but coastal fishing has become increasingly difficult over the years. small fishman barely make a living from they catch the sea. it was guaranteed a modest income to day. many fishermen do on social transfers and some cities and scenes of getting even more difficult to, to climate change, stronger currents and coastal erosion. what is the fisherman from the muddy defact tim

soledad beach still offers plenty of space, the vessels boat and the fisherman's equipment. but other beaches have already been swallowed up by the c. o for around now, vito's true losing their net. it's a disappointing catch. only if you macro and sardines and a handful of c brim and kill to increase the region around forever has long been considered a good fishing location. but then the problem stanton, vito can no longer fish where he lives. 30 kilometers up the coast into one of that. give me a little while yet that was practically no sandy beach left there any more yet. not even enough room for a beach towel candle. what while i was put now imagine putting a boat here, re says it all crowd of fishing and escort each where i live is on the verge of extinction. which by me,

it is william. vomit won't. but vito 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 counting any other part of the country's coastline is endangered. as a puleo in the north of portugal. the development fills fishermen. adriano rivera with dread adriano mostly makes a living from squid fishing. the sand june still offer some protection, but they're under immense pressure.

thanks. ingram, facing guaymas. as to luna, alice arbour. i'm 55 years old. l i v m. i show me and this june used to be here more or less owner. now daughter l m l afternoon ikea. living am i shall man's bracky and now look around 8 meters of san june. have disappeared in the last few years. i've had a spouse if just that, and nobody's doing anything about it. my daughter in a fast neither. that's such bad. it's just a matter of time before the water reaches the road, my sheep were pumped. it's terrible. and what didn't give me that it was somebody can give us now to yes meal was really to see advancing like diss 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 the whole size. good vianza z m, 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 government's building measures and it has made everything worse. dumped 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 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. bram is a cute, a guilty bream and a soul direct from the sea and up julio. daniel 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.

district journey will watch for a while. it's about jack was also in the other restaurants in the neighbourhood router, but at least $80.00 to $100.00 jobs will be affected of our vendor, our around $300.00 jobs that would be indirectly effect. i think that's the bakeries letting the fishermen and agriculture walton my article, dora, most loyal restaurant owner of the viet and feels 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 not the only issue, the key is spotless to look at about this big plot of land is not being used. it would be the ideal place for new restaurants that could be built higher up lesser we still have a view of your c, rockville was, should double be somebody at over and it would be a big project, an ideal solution,

a face get as it. yes, it would be a good solution for a full year and we would all benefit from it. otherwise i love, 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 twos in a pool. yet, as well as this supplies for the daughter of beach formerly of surfing 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. 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, that i shall thank or why would i make a living from tourism here from surfing hill? judge, i live on the passion, i have for water and the sea, a set of for my the party cannot get my invite, the shuttle backlash every day. every year the advance of the sea is getting worse and it's economically leaving me behind her voice to grok, wherever they shiprock. what are the brief few this used to be a very popular ph. instead of forming a now people just under 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. joelle's 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 aussie challenge over 1000000000 euros have been spent on the protection of seaside towns and beaches in

the last 10 years. might have exhausted 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 to complain. 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 that as 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 residents until recently carla santos. she lived with her children in a house directly behind this wall. me as it at my

house was here. my directly in front of the si, fi commute. this was the entrance. nottingham was room there was one door facing i see. but we kept it locked. you're seeing that we only use the back door as it other the key valley. oh might of 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 olean, dasa, you them, you guys are playing. let sounds like a dangerous situation. 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. cancer, especially in the winter, if e a frequency. so these numbers damping by the tides were too big, round that up and i am the bay, the air, the management wouldn't. then veto, also schuman and politician, accompanies the family to the new home. it's quite close by just 300 meters inland

in a newly built settlement color santos and her daughter's recently moved into the settlement built by the town council. the tour accompanied the project from the very beginning yesterday. but i really 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, we didn't get my phrase by means of your own. i would never have thought that i would have a room to myself. no, dear 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 to 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 we knew rob martin like one thing. 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 195820 t, 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, 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 will. we gather the sand from off shore. brian mission gets in 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. lack of will patch in the soil. the man who bought masked boys were very, 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 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 whoops are observed with a critical eye by the population. and by antonio san gabriel pinch, leader of the small seaside town itself. pedro de gala keen specs, a large building size on the beach daily offering answers to the skeptical residence. gloria vienna gala on what is a giant wave comes the sand will be washed away again. lovely. what is they do? it was on the jail slid. the no, it won't them let the nash the over the tubes will stay here permanently. a kish fool, you gently even can't i 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 length rather the vital bracky 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 what 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 but 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 se for, for, for, for the, for just so that way you can see we used to be dunes. yeah. but now all we have is

rocks and nothing else. my mother surf instructed, joelle is skeptical and takes his students on an environmental to live 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 more of us will my he 2nd group are gonna give the sand the government keeps replenishing here cannot replace the noun, whispers because millions of euro's general he, he was last. you're going. euro's was a, sorry, i don't think it's going to work. but she will continue to advance as the earth gets warmer smith. yet all of his new stuff st. george shows his students the damage witcher's almost daily,

along the beach from an odd apartment 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 manage to little the can look at this avenue here. so instead of neither go see telephone interviews,

fit no yellow capitol. the water is hitting, this cafe, fostering the whole terrace, the people dips them a dr. fit for the rest of it was just wiped out at the kettle and then the telephone. the last for another study for 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 while we're swim for 140 meters away with a batch of 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 men. he's made coastal erosion. the key issue if

his election campaign so we'll be ban website. some of the residents we've resettled use to live here. i will keep they were seriously affected by the rising senior governor ga. gov m. yes. oh, thank god, things are better. no good. after that, we'll do it as the other one. is that the what it will keep fighting for you today and tomorrow's law. you but i'm a yeah, i one vote for t shirt. you're the best that this done as well. oh, this local collection is all about the best concepts to protect to 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. go live, right?

oh, oh, oh, you got blazer, miss ramirez here on ish, moorish beach and families lived in constant fear, especially in the winter of the maryland was one of the central government in london, promised my resettlement backlighting. 80 was that when you bought this money never came over the revision. oh no, we built the necessary homes ourselves with money from local the concentration items yoke will be our tour hasn't received in your house yet, but i'm sure he is please for his labors to have been able to move in to know how to work for the 1st week of the 3. huh? yes, i can confirm that our total have faith. why don't we always do that? i think the election campaign event ends in social housing settlement. bo alyssa, good hope. the residents here a happy that they no longer live behind the crumbling jeans by the sea, but in a new or safer homes room. oh yeah. 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 vanderfull good if possible to step by step, we're finding our way fold excellent galleys. if we win the election, gonna continue our resettlement program of it and building no neighbourhood right over there. ok, st. present or to le, backed up in a poorly 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 nat, june escaped 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 muddle and has been trying to convince his neighbors for weeks. hello to look at this model concrete break borders should be submerged into the sea, around 300 meters from the coast. mice would help offset the tiles is non here. marty politically, fema 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 notarized. that of, if it is up on the 4th floor, 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. he, that he'll be there at least offer matter. you could only be a benefit for the jewish war, but also for the shipment, for the sea floor and foreigner. and we fishermen would have more to cash florida

will buy one as well as through ebay. but the vision looks like you resumed the opposite of you. 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 and water quicker fronting as walk it to the network. i think it would be a relatively cheap letter lesson, which would avoid wasting money. back is the other way nikki has one clear column. you slash go muscle, so you have to save this place. a lot of village has history and we intend to go mice. ne, excellent, well, i don't see all somebody else. yeah. sometimes atlanta can't hide his anger and disappointment at those in power in lisbon got of going. i would agree if the government took measures to protect the dunes, 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. and 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 and then secondly, the others with us adriano is fighting to save his home town, but he is in a puja in particular, it seems that humans have lost their fight against nature. experts say that coastal erosion is an existential threat to portugal coast. it's the catastrophe of the century. for the country, it's people, and they will have life ah,

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