JEWELRIES OF BLACK CORAL SOLD BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MALDIVES.

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Black coral is a tree like coral which could be seen in the tropical waters. It got its name from the distinctive black or dark brown color of its skeleton. Also the unique to black coral is tiny spines that cover the surface of the skeleton.

Jewelries made from the black coral are sold at high price in the market. The shiny black surface of the coral gives the beauty of the jewelry. This could be a very romantic gift to your valentine but making jewelries out of black coral could lead to the extinction of the coral. Years ago Maldivian government has banned taking the black coral form the seas of the Maldives due to risk of extinction of the coral. This act has given life to the coral reefs.

Today we see a different picture. Jewelries made from the black coral are independently sold in the tourist shops of the Maldives. Besides stopping the black coral selling the government has started selling the product. It is clearly said in the law black coral is protected marine species and exporting of black coral in any form is prohibited for more information check the link down. http://www.visitmaldives.com/Environment/protected.php

In the National handicraft center located in the S.T.O trade center ground floor many products made from the black coral is on sale. According to the sales personnel of the shop government of the Maldives holds a share to the shop in alliance to Najah of the Najah art palace. Also the sales personnel told me that the black coral is from the Maldives.it is sold with a tag saying “authentic Maldivian product”. Why does the government want to be this on sale? When they are promoting environmental friendly tourism in the Maldives. I don’t think the government understands their own phrase “environmental friendly tourism”. Tell your friends, clients and anybody on this planet to stop this bossiness. After all under water beauty is one of the natural beauties we have.

Ambalan maa hefun

Maahefun is known as a big feast for the friends and the neighbors sometime the whole island people have just before the holy month of Ramadan. This has been a tradition in the Maldives which bring Maldivians closer to each other every year.

Amblan is a sand mountain filled with fruits and local food. This is done in the islands in the past for maahefun. However now a days we don’t see an ambalan.

As people in the male can see there is an ambalan maahefun in behind of Dharubaaruge going on for a few days. This event has been there annually for the past few years. It’s done for a good cause and I am not against it but if you look at in my point of view we could see something different. The sand mountain which is made there is about the sand equal to make a one room flat. This sand is taken from the lagoons of the Maldives. As I said before in the past people had done the ambalan but at that time people didn’t know what would happen when we take the sand from the lagoon. Things had change now. We know that this would effect the natural current flow which is one of the reason our beautiful small island are eroding which could lead the island to disappear.

Why use this much of sand just for decoration? Can’t they use other ways of decoration? Even a big majority of the construction companies imported sand for the building. Day to day people using imported sand is increasing. I strongly suggest the organizer when they plan it next year to have something more environmental friendly. Already global warming is sinking our island. We don’t want to help our enemy? Or do we. Oh yes I forgot we are going to Australia when we sink so what the heck. Haloooooo there still people here that still want to live in Maldives and take this beautiful country to the next generations.

Build a lifeguard station in the track.

In Male’ we find two different life guard station. That is one in artificial beach and the other in the raalhugandu. You could notice a life guard station is missing in a very important place in male. Male swimming track.

Day to day people who uses the swimming track is increasing. Minors as well as people who can’t swim but instead of building a lifeguard station here the government decide to build a lifeguard station in raalhugandu where everybody can swim. I am not saying and incident won’t occur there but its more likely to happen in the swimming track. If we look some years back to the reason why they built a lifeguard station in the artificial beach was because of a child drowning. We don’t want this to repeat again.