'Red lights' as over-tourism threatens Corsican nature reserve

Girolata (France) (AFP) - "It's nature's magical design," says a tourist guide, waxing poetic as he comments on the impressive red cliffs plunging into a turquoise sea at the Scandola nature reserve on France's Corsica island. "Amazing!" exclaims Irena Snydrova, a Czech tourist visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site with her family, along with groups from Italy, Spain and France. The park, created in 1975, is an ecological dream, being a nature reserve and a protected marine zone that is...