French islands restrict visitors
Environmental damage by tourists has led to two French islands to impose daily limits on the number of visitors.
According to the BBC News website, the number of daily visitors to Porquerolles island will be restricted to 5,000, while its neighbour Port-Cros will receive just 1,500 visitors a day.
Tourists have already been reportedly been banned from smoking on the two islands, which sit off the Cote d’Azur on France’s Mediterranean coast.
The restrictions come because biologists say ramblers are damaging a number of rare plants, and that the number of Peregrine falcons living on the two islands has reduced in recent years.
Until now, the two islands have attracted around 1.5 million tourists a year and, the website reports, achieving the required fall in numbers will largely be dependent on ferry operators imposing daily limits.
One is quoted as saying: “We are complying. When there are too many people, we refuse to provide extra boats. But it is difficult to have to tell people that we are refusing to sell extra tickets.”
Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad
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