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dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-18T12:02:27Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-18T12:02:27Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016-06-12 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Deidun, A. (2016, June 12). Give beaches a break in summer. The Times of Malta, pp. 1-3. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/34897 | - |
dc.description.abstract | With each bathing season we get the usual agonising reports of heavy machinery being used on beaches, mainly to clear deposits of dead Posidonia oceanica (a seagrass, not a seaweed) litter or to bury mounds of pebbles lest they interfere with bathers’ stroll into the sea. This year was no exception, with bathers at Għajn Tuffieħa getting a rude awakening when they were confronted with heavy machinery that had been called in to ‘groom’ the beach from dead seagrass litter. It is utterly incredible how such outdated practices still persist, in a Natura 2000 site to boot, despite the many times it has been clearly explained that such heavy-handed tactics wreak ecological damage to the beach ecosystem, besides making the sand structure more prone to erosion. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Allied Newspapers Ltd. | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Beaches -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Beaches -- Environmental aspects | en_GB |
dc.subject | Natura 2000 (Malta) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Land use -- Environmental aspects -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Non-governmental organizations -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Partit Laburista (Malta) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Partit Nazzjonalista (Malta) | en_GB |
dc.title | Give beaches a break in summer | en_GB |
dc.type | newspaperArticle | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Deidun, Alan | - |
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