International Survivor productions have left the Pearl Islands trashed, although the US producers, Mark Burnett and his Survivor Entertainment Group, has been praised for their commitment to minimizing the impact. A scuba instructor in Panama told the Los Angeles Times that “[s]ome people come here just because of ‘Survivor.’ It makes it really attractive. The goal of people coming here should be tourism, not television. TV productions ruin islands.” Countries that have filmed there include the United States, Israel, Sweden, Colombia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Serbia, and the paper reports that “[e]vidence of environmental neglect and insensitivity stemming from ‘Survivor’ shoots around Panama’s idyllic settings aren’t hard to find” and one “production left a large pile of trash including water bottles and feminine napkin boxes on Mogo Mogo, and in Bocas del Toro, a group of 40 islands on Panama’s Caribbean side, a local group says the Colombian production disturbed the nesting grounds o...