Close
Contact Us
Help
Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
Go to Login page
Hide details
Add to lightbox
Add to cart
Get link
Keywords
Children
Climate (campaign title)
Indigenous People
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Sea level rise
Trees
The Garden - Sea Level Rise Documentation (Papua New Guinea: 2006)
Bernard Gaille is walking with a boy from his village in the "garden". This is an area formerly used for growing crops, it is now barren and destroyed by salt sea water 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.
Restrictions
NO FUNDRAISING
Unique identifier:
GP019MK
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
10/12/2006
Locations:
Carteret Atolls
,
Papua New Guinea
,
Puil Island
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Sea Level Rise Documentation in Papua New Guinea
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.
Related Collections:
Sea Level Rise Documentation in Papua New Guinea (Photos & Videos)
Conceptually similar