Cousteau Reserve’s fragile ecosystem hangs in the balance

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The Pigeon Islets, popular tourist destinations in Guadeloupe, are renowned for their fragile ecosystem – but climate change, overcrowding, and land-based pollution are ruining them, say conservationists.   #ecology #conservation

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00:00The pigeon islets in Guadeloupe are renowned for their fragile ecosystem, they're popular

00:11tourist destinations, but climate change, overcrowding, and land-based pollution are

00:16ruining them, say conservationists.

00:20The koalas are still around, I saw a small moray eel.

00:24So there's still some life of course, but things have changed compared to before.

00:28I feel like the fish density has decreased a bit, even if it's not drastic.

00:34We see far fewer schools of fish than before, in my opinion.

00:39Diving clubs have banned sunscreen and forbidden the touching of coral.

00:43But without stricter measures, the pigeon islets' fish-rich waters and colourful corals

00:49could soon be merely a memory.

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