Originally Posted by Pausanias

You surely must be aware that to build the hotels out on the motus - the Four Seasons, IC Thalasso, Meridien etc - an entire marine environment was wilfully destroyed. I went to Bora Bora long before all these honeymoon havens were built. In fact, the government banned all development out there until the pressure to relent became too great. They did great damage and the rows of OWBs are a terrible eyesore to this most dramatic of all tropical islands. On a positive note, these hotels are striving to regenerate coral and are using expensive technologies to do so. But don't kid yourself that this is a natural environment. The reefs and the beaches out there are all man-made.