Ho Ba Duong in China and the consequences after 18 years of excessive sand mining.
What do people need to do to stop?
Many people are still not aware of the harmful scale of overexploitation, so it is still going strong all over the world. Currently, only a few organizations stand out, but not really effective.
Hopefully, governments and governments will soon build a safer, more environmentally friendly sand mining strategy in the future.
More than ever, sand needs to be treated equally as other limited minerals to protect our common home.