Sociocultural Factors
Lifestyle & Socialcultural Changes
Maldives islands locate between the trade route of the Indian Ocean. As a result of tourism, the flow of people and their cultures around the world have come in contact with these islands, had left a big impact on the Maldives lifestyle and sociocultural:
• Because of the genes passed on by other regions such as genes of Arabians, Asians and Africans, the shapes of Maldivian people can be different depend on the island they live.
• The mother language of Maldives is Dhivehi.
• Maldivian beliefs have been very much based on Islam religion and superstition. Although Islam religion dominates in matter of faith, but effect of the supernatural matter still gains a major role in most communities.
The mixing of variant cultures can be seen in the Maldivian traditional arts:
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However, from the environmental changes in Maldives, impacts of tourism are starting to become negative influences:
• According to Kundur & Murthy, 2013 and Cooper et al, 2008, the increasing number of tourists is leading more new resorts and complexes are being built. This is the reason to the removal of trees and other vegetation. Besides, some of exotic plants which are imported to make the resort more attractive, might force out and prevent local plants from growing.
• Population of islands is about doubled during high season, by the number of visitors, leading to strain on the environment or destruction of natural resources in future.
• Coral reefs are in danger because tourist’s activities such as swimming and diving which have risks to take the coral as a souvenir. White beaches and turquoise water in Maldives are also attract so many tourists each year but as coral formations, they might be altered or spoilt by the visitors.
Tourism
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Coral reefs are greatly hurt by tourism. When tourism first began, people had little regard for the delicate balance in the reefs. They would often break off parts of the coral to keep as souvenirs, damaging the area and hurting both the corals and the fish or other animals that relied on it. While humans today are more aware of the damage they cause, regular visitations can still create great damage by snorkelers or divers accidentally hitting and damaging the reefs.
Furthermore, extraction of building materials such as sand affects coral reefs, mangroves, and hinterland forests, leading to erosion and destruction of habitats. Overbuilding and extensive paving of shorelines can result in destruction of habitats and disruption of land-sea connections such as sea-turtle nesting spots. Coral reefs are especially fragile marine ecosystems and are suffering worldwide from reef-based tourism developments. Evidence suggests a variety of impacts to coastline ecosystems result from shoreline development, increased sediments in the water, trampling by tourists and divers, ship groundings, pollution from sewage, overfishing, and fishing with poisons and explosives that destroy coral
Located in tropical ocean waters, coral reefs provide priceless resources to both human and marine life. The leading natural cause of destruction among the coral reefs is global warming. Other natural causes are earthquakes, hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons. The destruction to the coral reefs from these natural disasters is minimal compared to the dangers caused by man. Man-made destruction has a much wider impact on the health of the coral reefs. This destruction includes over-fishing, damage from anchors, aquarium industry, overgrowth of seaweed, and being smothered by sediments.
Conservationists around the world are putting their best foot forward in an attempt to save the coral reefs. Coral reefs today are at a high risk of damage because of all the attention drawn to them by tourists. There are some islands that make all their money through tourism and exploiting the coral reefs, giving snorkel and scuba diving trips to guests that have traveled from around the world. Many people travel to these places with amazing under water worlds and they come extremely uneducated about these beautiful masterpieces. Tourists will drop their anchors on top of corals and drive their boats over corals, causing severe damage that will take the coral years and years to replenish. There are always new ways to enhance the lives of the
Activities held in the Reef itself, such reef walking or diving and even snorkelling can cause damage to the inhabitants and structure of the reef. As people walk along the designated paths they often stray away from them or even if they continue on the path there is a chance they could accidentally tread on some coral or even an animal (e.g., fish). In snorkelling and diving, the same risks stand, however, there can be additional ones such as people purposely breaking off the coral as a souvenir and potentially destroying something that took hundreds of years to create. And due to the increasing tourism percentage, the number of healthy corals is falling.
"Coral reefs… are fragile structures living within a narrow range of temperature, clarity, salinity and chemistry. Even a slight increase in ocean temperature, or increased CO2… can cause stresses such as bleaching… These stresses slow the rate of growth of the corrals… With some 60 percent of the world’s coral reefs now losing productivity, it’s becoming a global crisis and a scientific mystery."
Of those threats, climate change is the one that has the biggest impact on the reef. The rising temperatures are causing bleaching.When water is too warm, corals will expel the algae, called zooxanthellae, living in their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white (NNOA). Without it, the coral starves, but doesn’t have to die. It can recover from this, but has a higher fatality rate than corals who didn’t go through the bleaching process. The poor water quality is a result of increasing sediment, nutrients and contaminants entering coastal waters in run-off from agricultural, industrial and urban land uses (“Poor Water Quality”). The nutrients and sediments boost algae growth, which effects the corals growth. Overfishing is the final major threat. Once the fisherman catch most of the fish in the area, they must go lower. This leads to them hitting the coral and causing further damage. Although they have these threats, they can overcome it to continue to
One of the main ways that human’s impact coral reefs that could be avoid is coastal development that produces unsustainable tourism. Today, people are constantly looking for tropical places to vacation and adventure on these tropical islands. Since coral reefs can only be supported in tropical waters, they tend to be located by nice beaches on popular islands. The Caribbean is one of the best examples of this. Countries such as Jamaica and the Dominican Republic are generally poor countries with little development. Over the past years, these islands with tropical waters and coral reefs have began to build more and more resorts
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Coral reef destruction is a big deal. There are many environmental threats on coral reefs which means they are slowly dying. Coral reefs play a very important part in marine ecosystems. Sea creatures depend on them for protection, camouflage, as a home, and also for food. Scientists believe this could be from natural causes like erosion, and global warming as reasons that coral reefs die off but one of the main reasons is pollution. There are many different ways pollution can affect coral reefs. There is a chemical in sunscreen called oxybenzone that may be contributing to the destruction of coral reefs as swimmers are trying to protect their skin. This chemical has toxic effects on young coral that can damage their DNA,
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