Name: Vusumuzi Magwanyana

School: Silethuthukhanya High School

Box 113, St. Lucia, 3936

What are the environmental issues faced on our coast and how will being part of the expedition benefit me and my community.

Nowadays our country is attacked by poverty, hunger and high crime rates. All this is caused by the lack of employment within the country but only thing which still plays a major role is tourism. Tourism is only thing which is the most benefiting one to the economy of the country. In fact it is an economic arm of the country.

The tourism business is based on three things: the history of the land, the culture of the people and the environment. All these co operate and assist our country through medication from hospitals, department of Welfare and on development programmes of schools and communities.

Along our environment there is a coast which is the most attractive and precious area. There are attractive features and natural thing or animal living along the coast which make many of the visitors likes to spend most time along the coast.

The environmental issues faced by our coast today is a problem of killing of animals live along the coast. Some of them lay their eggs on the sea sand like sea title. Then what a problem is that our visitors they destroy those eggs when they drive by their 4X4’s along the sea and some of them are poachers.

Some of what is done by people is uncontrolled hunting and mindless killing of sport and pleasure. By doing that they destroy the nature and cause more poverty over the country. If this is not taken special precautions, I hope that this country would suffer more than before.

Some of the problems obtained by our coast is a problem of water pollution and floods entering impure water with some insecticides poisonous coming from farms that affect some of animals and plants living in water such as fish, tortoise, crabs, crocodiles etc.

Some of what have the higher influence in our natural resources is a problem of the destroying of bushes by cutting the trees without any necessities of doing that and that makes some of animals die because forests are only their hosts where they can lay their eggs and keep their young ones and if that particular forest is destroyed therefore the animals which had been staying in that forest suppose to move to another area for better living and enough food , which might happen that they are not get food on a new area and end up dead.

To take any measure in order to sort any of the wild animal or any natural resource implies that I understand that any of natural resource at any place being destroyed is part of my life and my community. There the expedition conservating and protecting our nature along the coast or any where else can be a solution of hunger, poverty and high crime rate of this country and be the benefit to me and my community or anyone who belongs to the world and the world belong to him.

I hope and believe that life can be proved better if nature is saved and cared.