Green Options » reality television http://greenoptions.com/tag/reality-television Posts tagged 'reality television' Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:51:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en MTV Cuts Down Rainforest for Reality TV Show http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/14/mtv-cuts-down-rainforest-for-reality-tv-show/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/14/mtv-cuts-down-rainforest-for-reality-tv-show/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:51:17 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/14/mtv-cuts-down-rainforest-for-reality-tv-show/ Look out, Panama!After the Viacom-owned network finished filming their new treasure-hunt themed “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” on a remote, uninhabited island in the Republic of Panama, locals returned to find their beach tattered and abused.

The television show, which premieres on September 17th, took over the neighboring, inhabited island in militant style by hiring the local police to prevent residents from accessing a public beach. As it turned out, according to local witnesses, MTV had cleared a small patch of rainforest to build a tiki-hut structure near the beach, developed an access road through the forest, and installed generators and lighting on the beach.

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