Spain warning to holidaymakers as ‘black flag’ beaches named in holiday hotspots
16.06.2024 - 12:41
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British holidaymakers heading to Spain have been warned of nearly 50 ‘black flag’ beaches across the country. Coastal locations in holiday hotspot Canary Islands feature in the list, along with beaches in Malaga, Barcelona and and the Costa Brava (Girona).
A new report by Spanish environmental campaign group Ecologists in Action has highlighted the worst offencers. After inspecting more than 8,000km of coastline the group dished out 48 black flags.
It warned that there "could be many more flags that we award year after year" and includes the the most serious environmental conditions on the Spanish coast. Chemical pollution, marine waste, over-development and sewage discharges were just some of the issues highlighted in the report, the Liverpool Echo reports.
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A spokesperson for Ecologists in Action said that "touristification and urbanisation of our coastline" was one of the biggest problems Spain's coastline faced. A spokesperson said: "A problem that especially affects the Canary Islands, whose population is organizing, under the cry of “The Canary Islands have a limit”, to reject the numerous attacks and threats that endanger the conservation of these islands and the future of future generations.
"The metabolism of tourist activity in the Canary Islands is highly intensive in the requirement of large quantities of materials and energy that are not available, and in turn generates enormous quantities of waste and pollutants that are incapable of being assimilated by the territory itself. The footprint ecological situation of the Canary Islands corresponds to that of a territory 27 times larger. In other words, we need a
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