Cuba may have been restricted politically and economically for the past 50 years, but its borders have remained open to wildlife for which Cuba’s undeveloped islands are an irresistible draw. While many islands in the Caribbean have poisoned or paved over their ecological riches on land and in the sea in pursuit of a growing tourist industry, Cuba’s wild landscapes have remained virtually untouched, creating a safe haven for rare and intriguing indigenous animals, as well as for hundreds of species of migrating birds and marine creatures. Coral reefs have benefited, too. Independent research has shown that Cuba’s corals are doing much better than others both in the Caribbean and around the world. Buy the DVD. This film premiered September 27, 2010.
After visiting Cayo Largo this summer I am very concerned, we rented a small geek and drove around the island. The amounts I garbage I have seen was unbelievable! Half the island looks clean and touristy, the other half terrifying … Garbage washes onto the shore from the boats, hotel trash piled up in another part… I love that place but if I could never go there again I could live. I wish the closed Cato Largi and just keep it isolated as an ecosystem.
$25.00 a month for a biologist in Cuba? You have got to be joking.
I can match that. Where do I send the cheque, if I want to sponsor the snail researcher?
Many of you have misunderstood the message of this video. You need to get rid of your political tendencies and be just “HUMANS”. Humanity is the best party anyone can have. This video is not saying that communism is the best or that people in Cuba have all the material things they want to have. I am also Cuban and reside in USA. I do have a nice house and a good car, but I am smart enough to admit that every time I start my car to go to work I am polluting the air, a horse would not pollute it. I am smart enough to admit that the boat that my neighbor has is polluting the water every time he uses it. The other neighbor who owns three houses because one house does not satisfy him, I am wondering how many trees they had to cut down in order to satisfy his ambitious project. This is exactly what this video is about. How the economical development destroys the planet and how this people are doing things in a different way to preserve the natural resources. They are an example to follow in order to save our planet. Instead of going to the mall this weekend to buy a pair of shoes that I do not need, I will plant a tree in my backyard to do something positive and smart for my planet.
I have seen the teeming & flourishing estuary of the Chesapaeake Bay die off in my lifetime up around Annapolis and it makes me angry — Is this the cost of progress ?
Would we have done what we had done if we knew the price beforehand ? i.e. — sprawl and all that hot and oily water running off fields of asphalt (with bits of grit in the form of rubber, brake filings, radiator fluid, etc…) and all those exhaust fumes from cars & houses coming back down as raindrops surrounding dirt/ash particles… not a good scene — idiots who want to drill baby drill only to burn all that fossil fuel it all & destroy the biosphere and the gift of life.
How do we as a people clean it up…..LETS CLEAN IT UP
This program answered a very important question for me which was can we, developed humans, coexist with nature? Well before this video I didn’t have high hopes but one guy said it would be very hard but is possible. Hope.