Artificial islands: political or ecological burden for Iran?
Construction of artificial islands with glorious buildings on them has own aesthetic aspects to attract more tourists. The international law provides legal frames for them, but still puts some limitations. Ecology should not be damaged and the nature should be preserved. Ecologists alarm Does these islands are built with observing these principles? Ecologists alarm not. Kuwaiti periodic head of Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME) Abdul Rahman Al-Awadi warned against building artificial islands, hinting at negative ecological consequences. Construction of artificial islands causes the increase of mud density of the water, entering the waste materials, such as heavy metals massively into the sea. Furthermore, embanking and filling dusts into the sea damages coral reefs, their associated mangrove and sea grass habitats which are providing the food and shelter for a wide range of marine species. But does it worth to go on building thes