Coastal erosion is becoming an increasing problem for Portugal’s Atlantic coast. Each winter brings heavier storms, and the rising sea level is endangering homes and beach promenades. How are local residents and authorities coping with the situation?
The pressure on Portugal’s west coast is mounting by the year. In the north in particular, many Portuguese are fighting a desperate battle against the advancing sea, which is threatening beaches and coastal resorts. Every year, environmental authorities have to concede coastal homes to the ocean and resettle their inhabitants. The report shows how people in Portugal are battling rising sea levels and coastal erosion. Locals such as fisherman Vítor Cacheira, who can no longer make a living from coastal fishing. He now works as a town councilor in Esmoriz, promoting a resettlement program which provides affected families with secure housing.
At the beach in Furadouro, surfing instructor and nature guide João Paulo sees his livelihood at stake. Restaurant owner Abel Vieira from the fishing village of Apúlia fears that his centuries-old village could soon be swept away by the sea. In recent years, many houses directly on the beach have literally fallen into the sea. Abel Vieira’s restaurant, one of many directly behind the dunes, is in danger, and many jobs with it.
The central government says that it is aware of the issue. They are trying to solve the problem by pouring in millions of cubic meters of sand or erecting protective barriers. But it is a Sisyphean task. The EU has declared the fight against coastal erosion a priority and is offering financial support to the Portuguese authorities.
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Can empty some seawater into space.😂
Do not worry for the future because tomorrow will solve its own problem..
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Sea Level Rise is already here, not in 2050 or 2100
I'm just not seeing what they're claiming. This seems fake and made up. Them two houses aren't even being saved and look abandoned. Who knows if there was a sand dune there. The beaches look empty and only the one boat pullings in a small net. The streets look deserted with no kids or people hardly. That street of restaurants is far from the ocean.
the beach would be alwqys be there but the peoole u need to leave.
Bangladesh also face this problem brutally .
The planet is on loan.
It will do as it wants, the last 6,000 years has been a cooling period with few heat blips. Humans are just a iritation who will burn out in time.
It is one of those issues you need to think about carefully whenever building your house so close to the sea, one day the sea is going to take back what's once belong to it 👨🏼🌾👩🏼🌾.
Sand come from the land. If you remove those home you will find beach sand and when the rain come the sand wash out to the sea create beach. Something like in Thailand 40 years ago Pattaya beach used to have only few houses and few small resort. Walking from the old road to rhe beach you will have to walk on the white sand almost 100 meter. Now people build building on the beach on top of the sand so, when the rain come no sand get to wash to the beach anymore. It is the cause and effect.
Build concrete break water several kilometers away from the shore.
É, ali o Salvador Malheiro a dar uma de ecologista quando se prepara para destruir a mata nativa de Maceda.
Climate change is dun by man and we are all paying the price for it
Plants are the secret to holding all those sand dunes together, however dune grass is very sensitive to humans trampling it so the dunes must be fenced off!
There are also parts in Portugal where the reverse is happening, the beaches are expanding, go figure.
Time to move. You can't conquer nature.
What I understood from this documentary. Stages of grief.
Mother Earth: it’s payback time!
I like DW documentary……But when you speak politics, makes me sick……..Stay with documentary and keep your democratic bullshit away….that's just an advice.
The ocean covers 3/4 of the earth, you will not stop coastal erosion. You have to move inland or spend billions of dollars so people can live behind ocean walls.
I am surprised that no one has been mentioning the
the real reason for their coastal erosion, no scientists
were concerted on that subject.
When I was on holiday in the Algarve, I was so
shocked to see huge boats sand mining the deep of
the sea!
This is the major cause of land loss, the same happened
when I was living in Florida,
the cause was the construction industries which were
the biggest users of sand for urbanisation and new
buildings, moreover the sand goes into the production
of concrete and glass.
It is no longer sustainable for our coasts.
75% to 90% of the beaches worldwide are
disappearing. In Indonesia already 24 islands have
disappeared. In the year 2100, the Maldives will not
exist anymore,
and 9 out of 10 beaches disappear in Florida.
This is due to these industries
I do understand their frustrations towards the
situation and their government, which seemed to
be useless.
Good luck guys, this is only the beginning of the end.
Sea is not rising. The continent is sinking and erroding from rain. Its inevatable all land will return to the sea in a cyclical action over millions of years.
Replacing the sand can't possibly overcome actually rising sea level.
..JUST MOVE EVERYTHNG BACK A 1000 YARDS ….OR LOOSE IT ALL.
STOP TALKING ABOUT IT AND GET TO WORK! …..GESSH!
Who can we tax in order to enrich ourselves… I mean to save the homes.
Not being funny coastal erosion is a natural thing, i live in the UK and the sand has vanished from the local beach's, over the past 60 years, if you look at the other side of the bay they have EVEN more sand, in the next 200 years it will be washed back…
Where are the trees?