On a beach at la Test-de-buch, near Arcachon in western France, almost a thousand withered Christmas trees have become windbreaks to keep the ocean at bay.
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00:00On a beach at La Tess de Bourg, near Arachon, in western France, almost a thousand Christmas
00:09trees have become windbreaks to keep the ocean at bay.
00:18The idea is to make them aware of the impact of treading, so that they understand that
00:22because people haven't respected the paths and so on that are provided for people, and
00:27because they haven't been respected, this creates these openings in the dune.
00:31And these openings mean that with the action of the wind, we have issues that are covered
00:35by sand.
00:36And if they, through their actions, can contribute to repairing all that, and if they understand
00:41that it shouldn't be done, we've achieved our objective.
00:50The purpose of these fir trees is to trap sand.
00:52In fact, if you look at the profile of the beach here, you can see that it's very wide.
00:57And when the wind pushes this sand towards the dune, the idea is that it will be blocked
01:00by these fir trees.
01:02We really use them as windbreaks.
01:04We're going to try and cover them with sand to try and fill in the depression we can see
01:06behind us, and prevent the sand from blowing back up and covering the road and the car
01:10park just behind.