tourism to destruction!

Did you know that the last frontier on earth is being invaded by, shall we say Tourist? Yes from the title of my post itself, I am talking about Antarctica. I recently saw documentaries regarding these lucrative business, where in anyone as long as you have the money can go and witness the beauty of the Antarctic continent.

I never against the tourist, but I am against to the thought that Antarctica is being exploited. So what happened to the treaties that hoped to protect this magnificent continent? There is a treaty that somehow carry out solution so that this area will be protected from any territorial claim of a country. Yes no one claim this area but there are people who wants to exploit it and used it to gain money and leave the area vulnerable to pollution and environmental degradation.

Who falls victims of these exploitation? Well if we would generally think of Antarctica, its barren, a wasteland, and lifeless but you might be surprised when you suddenly learn that there is life in this land. Indeed there are penguins, sea lions, and the humpbacks whale, they are few the species who lives comfortably in these region. What if oils from the ships who carries passengers spills out, gosh that would be a disaster… It would definitely kill a great proportion of animals not to mention the distraction it could bring to nature. Garbage and other trash used by the passengers may bring pollution.

There are too many possibilities of what Antarctic tourism could bring in this vulnerable environment. The reason why I wrote this to bring awareness that some of the earths region must be preserved particularly the Antarctic region. This is the place where wildlife are the only inhabitants, they are vulnerable and could be phased out when time that this land is totally exploited. When shall the governments acts on this serious matter? Tourism is beneficial to some aspects, that it brings about joy to the people and it could foster economic success to many businessman, but it could also jeopardize the environment of Antarctica. So when do we react?

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