There's nothing quite like the majesty of viewing one of the world's natural wonders
in person.
For some people, though, there's an extra thrill - the joy of destroying that natural
wonder.
If you ever questioned whether humanity was truly stupid, you can stop wondering, because
here's a look at beautiful natural wonders that were destroyed by the dumbest tourists.
Burn, island, burn
Spain's Balearic Islands are Mediterranean beauty on steroids, which makes them a favored
destination for tourists.
That had dire consequences in 2015, when a pair of young Scotsmen visited the pristine,
uninhabited Isla de Sa Porrassa and proceeded to burn the entire island down after dropping
a lit cigarette.
Despite completely ruining the natural wonder, including the habitat of the native Black
Lizard, Spanish police declined to press charges, saying they accepted the fire was accidental.
Time to make the donuts
A pristine dry lake deep in the burning heart of Death Valley, Racetrack Playa is home to
one of the weirdest events in nature.
Gigantic rocks move across its surface seemingly by themselves, leaving impossible wiggly trails
behind them.
It took scientists until 2013 to discover the mechanism behind this freaky spook-show,
and the Racetrack is still regarded as an invaluable scientific site.
At least it was, until some redneck tourist in an SUV decided to do donuts over vast stretches
of it.
Four months later, even more vandals showed up to joyride across the natural wonder, leaving
tracks that will be visible to visitors until sometime in the mid-2030s.
Thanks a lot, jerks.
Parasites in paradise
Located in the South China Sea, the Paracel Islands had, until recently, been shut off
to humanity for decades.
This allowed them to become mini-Edens overflowing with abundant and glorious wildlife.
Then, in 2016, China officially opened the islands to tourism, resulting in the immediate
destruction of the entire ecosystem as visitors gleefully ate every rare species in sight,
even posting happy photos of themselves on social media to prove they are horrible heartless
monsters.
To top it off, the tourists then plucked entire species of colorful coral into extinction,
just so they'd have some souvenirs to take home.
Fire hazard
Spreading for nearly 1,000 square miles through Chile's Patagonia region, Torres Del Paine
is the crown jewel of the country's National Park system.
At least, when it isn't being burned down by visitors, which happened in 2005, and again
in 2011, with the two fires leaving roughly 10 percent of the park a charred wasteland.
Naturally, visitors learned their lesson… oh, no, of course they didn't.
In 2015, a pair of tourists were thrown out of the park after they tried to start an illegal
campfire in a dry area of highly flammable forest.
Luckily, they were caught before the fire actually started destroying the park, but
it seems like just a matter of time before it happens again.
Potty training
Uluru is a gigantic sandstone monolith that rises out the flat Australian outback like
some sort of mystical party trick.
It's also a sacred site for Australia's indigenous Anangu people, and used to be home to an ultra
rare species of fairy shrimp that could only be found in pools of water on Uluru.
Now, of course, that species is extinct for a particularly disgusting reason; Retired
wildlife science professor Brian Timms discovered the extinction was due to tourists pooping
on everything.
So, yeah.
No only are tourists literally crapping all over a sacred natural wonder, they are killing
off entire species with their poop in the process.
Just… wow.
Unnatural selection
Once upon a time, the Galapagos was an untouched wilderness filled with countless unique species
found nowhere else on Earth.
Then, just a few decades ago, a tourist boom brought hordes of people to the islands - and
those people brought boatloads of invasive species along with them.
Already, the island of Santa Cruz has been ensnared by a habitat-destroying blackberry,
and Isabela is being strangled by a new creeper.
Galapagos ants are being killed and replaced by uppity mainland ants, while tourists are
also running over rare finches in astonishing numbers.
Given that a single tourist vessel can bring some 300 invasive bug species to the Galapagos,
we're guessing Charles Darwin wouldn't even recognize the islands he unfortunately made
world famous.
Pukefish
The Devil's Hole pupfish is one of the rarest fish species in the world.
They live solely in the waters of Devil's Hole in Death Valley National Park.
And that's where they also were killed by a group of drunken hillbillies in 2016 after
a trio of inebriated jerks chucked beer cans in the water, vomited in it, and even left
their dirty boxer shorts behind.
Besides killing at least one fish outright, they also damaged food source and egg sites,
endangering the entire species going forward.
So, that's basically the world's worst beer commercial.
#idiot
In 2016, a self centered egoist named Casey Nocket decided to go on a spree of destruction,
painting giant murals of her own face all over natural monuments across the US National
Parks system.
Her spree defaced vistas from Crater Lake, to Zion, to Joshua Tree, to Death Valley.
So why did she do it?
Why, to generate publicity for her Instagram account!
After internet sleuths put two and two together, the government brought her to court, where
she was sentenced to two years probation, 200 hours of community service and banned
from all US National Parks.
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