Med threat from ‘concrete coasts’

The boom in tourism over the past 50 years has placed this amazing biodiversity in the Mediterranean region under threat, says the TVE programme 'Concrete Coasts'. 150 million people live within 20 kilometres of the shores of the Mediterranean. Incredibly each summer that population almost doubles as swarms of sun-seeking tourists from Northern Europe, occupy millions of hotel rooms. It's a cruel irony, because what they come to enjoy is being destroyed. After more than a quarter of a century of international treaties and plans to save the Med, the battle is on to stop the last pieces of untouched coastline, being covered in concrete.