Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Island Leaves Island a Disaster

According to reports from the large boating community and small airport that is Isla Colon in Panama, where the current season of MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge was shot, the show left behind huge amounts of trash.

We're talking actual trash, not old episodes of Flava of Love.

"I have seen the aftermath of a tornado and this was almost as bad," Joe Maher wrote on a tree-climbing group's Web site.

Maher would know, considering that he runs a program in Panama for the Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation and has a base in nearby Bocas del Drago (near Starfish Beach, which is near where most of the filming for the show happened).

During production of the show, MTV kept tight wraps on the island, but once they left, Maher and one of his students walked around the area, and said that "the place looked like a trash dump."

Included in this categorization were fallen trees, pages of scripts (which reveals an even larger secret that the show is actually scripted) and a bunch of wooden structures.

Allene Blaker, who's an editor of Bocas Breeze, a local paper near the location of the MTV reality show, wrote a letter to MTV in the August issue.

"By not revealing your whereabouts last month (those were my own photos of the [MTV] bungalows on the beach), I was respecting your privacy," she wrote. "You should have the decency to respect our property."

A spokeswoman from Bunim/Murray, who produces the Real World along with the different "Challenges," issued a statement that said the show didn't cut any trees down while it was there, and that the pictures of their filming location were taken before they had a chance to clean up.