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Tropical Islands

Published by Matthew Kepnes | June 20th 2009 | Views:

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Tropical islands can be found near the center of the earth. These islands are hot, surrounded by beautiful beaches, clear water, and filled with great jungles.

It’s these great conditions that make them such a draw for tourists all over the world. Usually, most tropical islands in the world have large tourism facilities because people want to spend their holiday in such beautiful places.

Due to their grand weather and pleasant water, these places have a lot of animals living on them as these conditions are very suitable to a diverse wildlife. Most of the world’s coral reefs border islands since they need the warm waters and currents of the equator to survive.

These islands use these coral reefs as the building blocks of their island ecosystems and the coral reefs themselves are filled with thousands of species of colorful fish, crustaceans like shrimp and lobster, and invertebrates like starfish and sea anemones. Most tropical islands were made by volcanoes and tectonic plates and many lie on the fault lines where these plates meet.

This is how tropical islands such as Hawaii, the Seychelles, the Maldives, Polynesia, and many others formed. Because this volcanic and tectonic activity is often far away from mainland continents, the islands are usually isolated. Their remote location oftentimes contributes to their one of a kind biodiversity and number of exotic species, because they exist in a “vacuusts, and tropical islands have them in spades. And because tropical islands follow the entire equator, there are islands for any type of vacation you could want. Seasons are mirror opposites of each other above and below the equator, so there is always a spring or summer for tourists on a tropical island somewhere.

This type of flexibility is perfect to tourists, and come to the islands in droves. The fact that tourism is such a large part of tropical islands’ livelihood has also caused a lot of obstacles. A lot of tourism practices are viewed as exploitative of the native traditions on the island, as well as being very deadly to the ecosystems that make the islands so wonderful to begin with.

An example of this tension is taking place in Hawaii, where prices for houses and renting have gone up so astronomically that most natives that have been living there for generations can no longer afford to. Large-scale commerce like cruise ships and heavy boat traffic can disrupt delicate ecosystems.

There are many efforts being made to protect both the traditions and habitats of tropical islands, and the support of many will be needed to keep them as preserved as they currently are.
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