As if we needed further pollution and crimes against nature in Lebanon, there are plans apparently to turn the beautiful and historic Adloun beach into a fancy sea port. Adloun is small beautiful town in the South that is best known for its prehistoric caves and its beautiful rocky beach. It is the site of a Phoenician necropolis and archaeological finds from the 19th century reveled uncovered human remains from the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras. More importantly, Adloun’s rocky beach is one of the last few sanctuaries for sea turtles, an endangered species, along the Lebanese coast.
Locals and activists, especially The Green Southern Community, have been protesting against this new project and in favor of declaring this beach and the whole Adloun coast as a protected natural area, but things are going the wrong way as excavation works could be initiated anytime now.
This is an environmental disaster to say the least, and the last thing we need is ruining whatever is left of our public beaches. I couldn’t find any information about this project and I’m surprised that no TVs covered this story before. Of course such a matter should be raised normally to the Environment Ministry, but I think we all agree that there’s no point of doing that. All I’m hoping is that this post will help raise awareness on this matter and pressure the authorities to stop this massacre.
If you have further information regarding this story, please do share them because Greenarea.me stated Khoury Contracting are executing this project but I couldn’t find it on their website. I found this [article] though which indicates that this whole project is a mess.
PS: You can follow updates [here] and check out Aadloun on the map [here].
Doesn’t look like anything special to me. It’s not another Jeita or Baalbeck. I say bulldoze it if the new project will boost the economy and create job opportunities. No one’s gonna lose sleep over a few Phoenician rocks.
Lebanon has layers and layers of history. If we play the heritage card everytime a project is announced, we might not be able to build anything. If I dig in my backyard, I’d probably find 3ashtar’s underwear.
When will we the Lebanese ever value what we have? Don’t we understand that our biggest, if not sole, asset is our heritage (whether natural or cultural). We inherited one of the most beautiful countries ever, and look what we’ve done with it. Many people complain about the invasion or privatisation of the beaches… yet when what’s left of our amazing coast is being destroyed we just sit and watch… and even worse we defend (boost economy and create job opportunities lol) Any activity can create jobs, but projects are appraised by their negative v/s positive impacts. If we really want to boost the economy let us move towards a greener Lebanon, let us favor sustainable projects, let us think long-term instead of short-term; let us conserve and value rather than destroy; let us invest in nature and heritage, rather than luxury fuel and cement.
i don’t agree with the statement “theres no point in doing that ” since all the problems of the Lebanese have come from the successive submission of the Submissive sheep lebanese to their Dominant authorities 🙂
You say : What’s the point in protecting our heritage and history ?
Well There’s millions of beach resorts all over the world. But Lebanon Phoenician history and archeological sites are one in a million. If Lebanon knew how to preserve and protect its history and natural beauty, we would be a natural winner in tourism rather than always trying to compete with countries that can’t offer our brand of tourism by just building more resorts and hotels. We can be prosperous in tourism without compromising our history.
lebanese they deserve everything happening to them in lebanon. We chose our politicans -> they create a heavenly system to rule and control us -> they only care about their own benefits, their financial projects, bla bla bla…. -> we are only great at nagging and advising each other not to vote next time
HABAL to its extreme. fa kharjkon ya sha3eb 7mar