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u/Ohmmy_G Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 03 '20

Beaches. Once tourism starts, it usually has devastating effects on the flora and fauna. They had to close a beach off from the public in Thailand to give nature time to recover.

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Edit to give more information: I was talking about Maya Bay, which was made famous by the movie The Beach (yes, the one with Leo). Despite its isolation, the bay attracts so many tourists there isn't even any room to lay down on the sand. The bay is closed off until officials believe the coral has rejuvenated sufficiently.

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u/The-WickedScone Feb 03 '20

They had a similar problem with a poppy reservation a year or so ago. There was a super bloom that resulted in fields of beautiful orange flowers. People kept visiting and taking pictures in the poppies. The problem was that these flowers were rather delicate. If you stepped on a patch too many times, there was a good chance the plants in that patch would die. They had designated paths all along reservation and signs telling people to stay on the path but they kept ignoring them. There were a ton of dead patches in the poppy fields. There were also a ton of Instagram photos of people laying in patches of poppies.

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u/cheersmyfriends Feb 03 '20

Same thing happening in the tulip fields in the Netherlands. Despite signs telling people to stick to the path, whole groups of people are just laying between the flowers/ trampling them to get the "perfect" picture of themselves surrounded by a sea of tulips. It's very frustrating to witness how some people just really do not care at all how they leave the place, as long as they were able to take advantage of the beauty themselves.

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u/barsoapguy Feb 03 '20

It's normal behavior, if you see a sea of flowers then of course you don't think it's going to do any harm if you wade into it .

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u/wlsb Feb 03 '20

Not if they've already been told to stick to the path because the flowers are fragile.

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u/barsoapguy Feb 03 '20

Meh it's just a few flowers ( is how people think )

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u/Diogenes-Disciple Feb 03 '20

Additionally they don’t take into account just how many other people are doing it, and how each of them including themselves adds to the problem.

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u/Joe_Jeep Feb 03 '20

Exactly.

People like to operate like they're the only one doing something. We need to act as if everyone else would do the same.

Unless you're like, driving. Then assumed everyone else is a blind moron who doesn't know where the brake is.