She worries that the climate crisis could have a huge impact on her business. More than half the island’s land area has been lost to sea-level rise. Right: An aerial photo of Sogomou Island in 1943. Left: An aerial photo of Sogomou Island in 2014. “We do not know the extent of the changes the climate will bring.” “We live by nature and not at the expense of nature.” To prepare for a future of increasing heat, Valli and her husband are searching for olive varieties that can survive higher temperatures. “We wanted to protect the landscape,” she says. Valli and her husband moved to Evia from Athens 20 years ago to turn an inherited plot of land into an organic olive grove. “People were hesitant to visit us, fearing that the environmental disaster would prevent them from relaxing.” The cancelled bookings combined with the destruction of their olive groves, which they harvest and sell, resulted in a loss of €42,000 ($48,700). Guests continued to cancel in September and October. Valli’s hotel and olive grove on the northern end of Evia was damaged not once, but twice, by wildfire, forcing the couple to cancel weeks of guest bookings in August. Composite: Michael Pappas/AP/Getty Images Left: Flames burn on the mountain near Limini Village on the island of Evia in 2019. “We source a majority of our provisions from local fishers and farmers so we were unable to continue to support them.” In addition, the local education system gets funded partially through overnight accommodation taxes. A closure like this doesn’t just affect the lodge and the staff, said Hamm, but also the wider community. The closure ultimately cost the business $250,000 in lost revenue, and seasonal staff lost out on wages. “We were given until Friday to evacuate guests, and a few additional days to evacuate staff.” “The road closed abruptly in late August, on a Tuesday,” said Simon Hamm, the president of Camp Denali, a wilderness lodge on the far side of the closure. In August, landslide movement forced the National Park Service to close the road at the halfway point and evacuate visitors trapped on the other side.
The park, which covers nearly 6m acres in central Alaska, has only one access point: a single winding road that stretches more than 90 miles.Īs rising temperatures have thawed the permafrost that lies beneath parts of the road, the road has rapidly deteriorated in recent years. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Denali national park, the home to the highest peak in North America.
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