for in a race against time, they are peers and rivals with one daring goal to outsmart nature. more life starts may 28th on the w o. v, atlantic coast of portugal, a natural wonder, almost 900 kilometers 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 already swallowed uphold the rows of houses with fulfilled fulfill login. if his negative time continues and we don't do anything about it,

the speech 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 fear into the hearts of not the residence, we'll make them pass the thief 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 in the sea becomes the enemy. how a people coping with the threat and how the authorities in the government

ah ah, he took a she had a 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, alma, 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 route, it's about live. i'm passionate about the of you, the feel, but you aren't very little. miss me. ah,

today to see is calm and the weight is mine. good conditions for the men in their boat. but coastal fishing has become increasingly difficult over the years. small fishermen, bailey, make a living from a catch to see it was guaranteed a modest income to day many fishermen do on social transfers and subsidies and scenes of getting even more difficult to to climate change. stronger currents and coastal erosion. what is the fisherman from the muddy to fatima

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 an hour vito's crew using their net it's a disappointing catch. only a few macro and sardines and a handful of see 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 candle. what while i was put now imagine putting a boat here, re says wrong crowd of fishing and ish. maria ish where i live is on the verge of extinction. was vomiting was bomb. it is bullish while it 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. but county, 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 are under immense pressure.

thanks. ingram, facing guaymas. as the lunette. alice arbour. i'm 55 years old. alabama show me this june used to be here more or less as lorna now daughter, l m l s t o n i e l l e m. i shall men's blackie and now look around 8 meters of san jeans. have disappeared in the last few years. i didn't start it just there and nobody's doing anything about it mad zach daughter. in as far as another pass ashbury, 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 a some of it, if i was non near st momentum 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 publish. good to be on for them. 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 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 june's and houses assist in task which doesn't really hold back the seat. 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 i cabana 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. c basil. a few small c. bram is a cute, a guilty bream and a sole direct from the sea and uphill we annual again a given model up 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. a

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. then there are around $300.00 jobs that would be indirectly affect. i think that's the bakeries letting the fishermen and agriculture local do my article, dora most no more restaurant, owner of the viet as feels let down by the authorities. as an alternative, he's demanding that a new food mile be built further away from the silver. he shows at rianna the spot mazda and this is to the geek squad. wish to look at 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 the c rockville was, should double be so mad at over and it would be a big project, an ideal solution fs. get as said, 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 if you can, should just be demolished. that would mean the end of the livelihoods of abil vieira and the other restaurant to is in a puleo 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. ah, juwal polo runs the surf camp in full doodle and is very worried. every morning he prepares his equipment, the surfing 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 i make a living from tourism here from surfing book judge, i live from the passion i have for water and the see a setup for my the party cannot get the money via the shuttle for trash 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 shiprock. what are the brief few this used to be a very popular breach in southern form, and now people just end up going to other places, better for surfing bush and all the miles which is terrifying for me and my staff. and your thought. these he said school is still going well. 20 young people have registered his weekend course. chow 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 with that he says what will happen if the beach disappears completely? lisbon, portugal coastline in the problems of coastal erosion of the responsibility of the central government. in ish costa, the secretary of state response. also the issue in the environment industry is aware of the problems for her protecting the coast is portugal biggest environmental policy challenge over 1000000000 euros have been spent on the protection of seaside towns and beaches. in the last 10 years might have exhausted

corral logs down this year to year. nice that else about more than hard protective structures, the jalap of you. 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 us. what i said 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 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 i see . but we kept it locked or seen, that we only used the back door as it as the key valley. oh 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 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 could go down to sleep number dampen, but the tides were too big out that that, that m barbara ada management would. and 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, 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 d m more. we lived in miserable conditions before the news. mcgowan diaz, got reviewed in m a. me a letter that goes a key envelope and look in the bathroom. now we have a shower,

where and going garcia, back then we only had a wash base any am with 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 knew robin 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 while often in the 6 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 was after 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. ask, i guess it's the man. so why would we gather the sand from off shore? brian gets in the cow hollow contessa in moscow, and daniel, we don't see it being wash crack out to see what it does have an exact little patch in this orange. the man who bought masked boys, whether it's a big investment, but it pays off. we find 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 comes costs

hundreds of thousands alone. the whoops are observed with a critic lined by the population. and by antonio san gabriel finch leader of the small seaside town of south pietro de gala. he inspects the 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 the some the deals lead the no it won't them let that nash the over. the chiefs will stay here permanently. a gift you gently even when we need to replenish the sandy insult where we'll just move it back here. let's see that it got together, but i years,

a thought that regard of the length of the viral 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 with 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 you prefer barrario, but the broad of the year is but i use your point of view, the empty, the kid i to is to results in portugal are doing more and more to prevent the beaches from disappearing into the say for for, for, for the future. 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 an environmental to lived. the beach. who were those rocks? are there used to be dunes a few years ago with small flowers and i'm sitting with doesn't as martinez, i was forcing us, but all that vegetation was lost with the advance of the see me or 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 your launch euros. was his 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 stuff. st. george

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 for your feet. 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 you can reach the 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 me that you'll see deal up

significantly though, well, look up or the water is hitting. this cafe fostering the whole terrace, the people dip. so it's a fit for the rest of it was just wiped out a little and then the telephone, the last for another study part of the week or to go 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 for 140 meters away with a batch of unbelievable o . 2 ish lariche, beatrice hometown in the final stages of the local election campaign beetle 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 will still be been wives, yet some of the residents we've resettled used to live here working. they were seriously affected by the rising senior govern ga. gov m. yes. oh, thank god, things are better. no, no good. after that, we'll do it as the other one. is that the what he would keep fighting for you today and tomorrow? law you but i'm a yeah, i get 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 residents and the homes from the seen a. have you been down here yet? hello, no. let's go to where our friend october lives. consider castillo with away for a key, the players. a miss ramirez here on ish,

marriage, beach and families lived in constant fear, especially in the winter when baron was one of the central government. robin 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 administration. 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 into more healthy work for the 1st week of the 3. huh. yes, i can confirm that. there are 2. it'll have faith for your wish that await the election campaign event. ensign 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 cipher homes room. oh,

wow. once again, karla santos shows herself as a steadfast frontal at the fisherman and local politician vito. the mood among the campaigns is more cheerful. for not everyone believes that the problem of coastal erosion could be solved by building new houses in bainbridge bull. good, if possible, to step by step, we're finding our way forward, easy. luckily, if we win the election, gonna continue our resettlement program overland building our neighborhood right over there and outside, present to all, to le, backed up in a poorly and the mood is considerably more pessimistic than in 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, and skate to greatly recover. fishman, adriano feels, let down. he now has his own plan to save the village. he asked an architect to

draw in the model and has been trying to convince his neighbors for weeks doesn't look at this model concrete break, what is should be submerged into the sea, around 300 meters from the coast. mice would help offset the tiles is not here. marty, at brotheckle extreme 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 there are some his feathers notarized letter. if it is up on the portal, my right to the for my suggestion we that of a humble fisherman who has lived here his whole life goes away. they haven't got they. yeah, yeah. you daddy, every direct miss gra matter. you could only be a benefit for the jewish war, but also for the shipment, for this sea floor and foreigner. and we fishermen would have more to cash delores

of about one level. but the vision looks like your resume. very 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 a lot quicker in front of you walk into the and i think it would be a relatively cheap lesson which would avoid wasting money that you see the way nike as one that you're given. you smash go muscle, so you have to save this place. a lot of village has history and we intend to go my snail next on. well, i don't see all, don't, will see all sometimes atlanta can't hide his anger and disappointment at those in pallet, in lisbon, one of whom i would agree if the government took measures to protect the do what expresses could, i would agree to anything that is all the good of these communities, but in the meantime, i no longer have identified this in. so all i've heard is,

is lip service in re well help. if i don't understand why the government protects all the places, but not out. what's different here from other places get, get the friends and then also me the others with this entry i know is fighting to save his home town, but he in a puja in particular, it seems that humans have lost their fight against nature expense 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 flesh ah,

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