Title – Crabs Own the Beach
Date – September 2004
Location - Bikini Atoll – Marshal Islands
Crabs really do own the beach, along with any number of other vertebrates and invertebrates, they are perfectly adapted for their environment and often act as a key indicator to how clean a beach and the sea water really is.
These environments are very delicate ones and your interaction within them can have an incredibly detrimental effect. Be aware of this and you can enjoy the pristine ecosystems, which do still exist in many parts of the world. But as the saying goes take only photographs and leave only footprints.
Beyond The Blue encourages ecologically sound responsible tourism and travel, even though many will argue that this is a floored argument in itself, because of the fuel used to transport you to your location in the first place. But simple steps like not collecting shells on the beach will mean that the hermit crabs have the opportunity to use those shells as a home or that the shells themselves can be broken down, to one day add sand to the beach you are standing on all make a difference. You collecting a shell to take home as a souvenir may seem insignificant, but consider the millions of shells removed from the worlds ecosystems every year by unsuspecting and ill informed individuals, not to mention the commercial harvests that remove shells while they are still living to meet the demands of the buyers all over the world and you will see how every little contribution can help in the fight for protection of these beautiful natural resources.
Beyond The Blue believes in responsible tourism, we believe that there is a fascinating world out there to be discovered but we realise the role we play in protecting these resources for future travellers to witness. Our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop will consider the implications of your travel to destinations around the world in a responsible and conscientious way. We hope to send those attending the course on their way, with the information to impact the environments they visit positively.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
Date – September 2004
Location - Bikini Atoll – Marshal Islands
Crabs really do own the beach, along with any number of other vertebrates and invertebrates, they are perfectly adapted for their environment and often act as a key indicator to how clean a beach and the sea water really is.
These environments are very delicate ones and your interaction within them can have an incredibly detrimental effect. Be aware of this and you can enjoy the pristine ecosystems, which do still exist in many parts of the world. But as the saying goes take only photographs and leave only footprints.
Beyond The Blue encourages ecologically sound responsible tourism and travel, even though many will argue that this is a floored argument in itself, because of the fuel used to transport you to your location in the first place. But simple steps like not collecting shells on the beach will mean that the hermit crabs have the opportunity to use those shells as a home or that the shells themselves can be broken down, to one day add sand to the beach you are standing on all make a difference. You collecting a shell to take home as a souvenir may seem insignificant, but consider the millions of shells removed from the worlds ecosystems every year by unsuspecting and ill informed individuals, not to mention the commercial harvests that remove shells while they are still living to meet the demands of the buyers all over the world and you will see how every little contribution can help in the fight for protection of these beautiful natural resources.
Beyond The Blue believes in responsible tourism, we believe that there is a fascinating world out there to be discovered but we realise the role we play in protecting these resources for future travellers to witness. Our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop will consider the implications of your travel to destinations around the world in a responsible and conscientious way. We hope to send those attending the course on their way, with the information to impact the environments they visit positively.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
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