More valuable than oil, the mafia steals it on beaches

In search of such places, we move through a number of tourist brochures and around our paradise beaches in Albania, Barbados, Croatia, Thailand, South Africa.

Naturalist Desmond Morris believes that people need to look for such places associated with a break where they absorb sunlight as they roll onto the sand and all sorrow departs.

Sand is in unlimited quantity, enough to be used to describe something that is endless, quite common, yet magic again, and that its disappearance is an almost impossible mission.

Stars are more than grains of sand, as astronomers say. Sand is in large quantities, and according to researchers from Hawaii University, it's 500 frameworks.

But sand is not as endless as we think. We forget about our proper hunger for building new buildings, roads, glass, and even electronics. All of this affects many countries we want most.

The world consumes between 30 billion and 40 billion tons of building material each year, and half of it goes into sand, which is enough to build a 27m - wide high wall around the equator.

Sand is responsible for 85 percent of the total weight of all materials extracted in 2014, and its reserves complete rock erosion for thousands of years.

High demand means lack, and that means money, and money also leads to crime. Worldwide, it has been estimated that this business is worth 50 billion pounds a year, and a cubic meter of sand is sold at a price of 67 pounds in high demand and small stocks.

This makes it ideal for illegal exploitation, especially in developing countries. Why spend large sums of money buying sand from licensed mines when you can do your job in some remote parts of hidden rivers? Or do they just steal it from some beaches or from all over the island?

This is the business that deals with “The sand mafia”. Criminals conduct illegal operations in Asia, Africa, and other countries where, with money assistance, police and other officials turn their heads to the other side.

From Jamaica to Morocco and Indonesia, the mafia is destroying entire beaches that disappear overnight with the help of several trucks. Those who stumble, whether they are policemen, activists, or journalists, will be hurt or killed.

Environmental activist in India Sumira Abdulali is conducting a powerful campaign against the illegal extraction of sand, which nearly cost her life in 2010.

The problem is spreading to tourist beaches such as Goa, Kerala and other countries. Most people are afraid to object, and such places are also avoided by police officers and government officials”, it indicates.

In the Southeast Asian area, sand is also a key part of geopoliticalism. China's imperial ambitions in the South China Sea are growing, especially by building artificial sand islands where military bases are helping them to strengthen their position in the region. /Periscopi/