It got threatening on the holiday beach. This is an invasive species
The beaches in holiday resorts can be at risk. Scientists who follow such places have many doubts about the resorts in Portugal. It is a particularly invasive species of plants.
Tourists love to go on vacation to Italy, Spain or Portugal. It turns out, however, that places that are popular and beautiful today can be destroyed soon. There was no such threat before. A unique problem was noticed in the resort on the Portuguese coast and on the northwestern beaches in the Viana to Castelo region.
A disturbing on the beaches in Portugal
What exactly are we talking about? Scientists have noticed that brniters of the Undaria Pierzastylna, known as Wakame, appeared on the tourist beaches. Although these algae can seem to be well associated with, for example, Japanese cuisine, in which they are used as a vegetable-e.g. for Miso-Shirir soup-they also cause considerable destruction.
Tourists visiting resorts will not be in danger, but local ecosystems – animals and plants are very threatened. As a consequence, we can lose beautiful areas of nature seen in the current edition. The mentioned brownnice create something like dense underwater forests. These limit access to light and space for native species.
“Algae derived from Asia belong to the most dangerous invasive species in the world,” said biologists from the University of Minho in Braga and the University of Porto, cited by Lisbon Television SIC.
There are big changes in Portugal
Anxiety on Portuguese beaches is aroused not only by the brownnas themselves, but also the phenomenon, which in the aforementioned areas was rare and exception. Today is completely different. Scientists confirm that the problem lies in the warming of the climate – among others It is to affect the spread of the Wakame species up to the regions of Portugal.
The ocean navigation also adds its own, transporting algae attached to the fuselage of ships from the Far East. “This could have contributed to the appearance of them in this area,” we read on the postal.pt website. Will this phenomenon be prevented? It is not known at the moment.
When these algae first appeared near the port of Figueira da Foz 20 years ago, they quickly disappeared, because the winter storms in the Atlantic did not survive. According to scientists, it is now difficult to count on it and we must expect damage.
