Environment in Crete

Sad to say but Crete has not achieved as of yet, an awareness to environment and ecology issues. Despite the huge influx of tourists there is little or no recycling programs to cope with the rubbish created in the summer season.

Though the cities are kept clean and free from rubbish, inland you can come across dumps with rotting and smelly rubbish.

Crete’s water is safe to clean and safe to drink and air pollution is minimal. Crete’s flora and fauna are under pressure from farming, there is very little replanting of trees, as the 90,000 goats on the island would eat the saplings before they got a chance to establish themselves.

In the past the use of pesticides, has destroyed many of the bird and plant life on the island. Along the coast the marine life has suffered, by the use of dynamite by the local fishermen.

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