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Rebuilding a Sea Wall - Sea Level Rise Documentation (Papua New Guinea: 2006)
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Rebuilding a Sea Wall - Sea Level Rise Documentation (Papua New Guinea: 2006)
Rose Tsube (bottom left), Mr and Mrs. Bernard Martha (top left, bottom right), and Manix (centre), rebuild a sea wall made of giant clam shells, to try and halt erosion of land by the waves.
Rising sea levels have eroded much of the coastlines of the low lying Carteret islands in Papua New Guinea and waves have crashed over the islands flooding and destroying what little crop gardens the islanders have. Food is in short supply, banana and swamp taro crops are failing due to the salt contamination of the land and the islanders live on a meagre one meal per day diet of fish and coconut. There is talk by the Autonomous Region of Bougainville government to relocate the Carteret Islanders to Bougainville Island, but this plan is stalled due to a lack of finances, resources, land and coordination.
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Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert
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GP018YE
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Keywords
Keywords:
Beaches
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Climate (campaign title)
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Erosion
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Flood defenses
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Indigenous People
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KWCI (GPI)
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Local population
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Sea level rise