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The islands and Global Warm |
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The solutions to the problems resulting from global warming and
rising sea level will need to be found by our own people and by
the friends of Oceania. There appears to be little doubt that
over the next 70 years the resettlement of lot of small island ,
reef, and atoll islands nation people will be a necessity. It is
only to be hoped that our beautiful and unique cultures can be
preserved even if only in the hearts and minds of our people. |
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Environmentalists and friends of the earth have long contended
that greenhouse gas emissions are a major contributing factor to
global warming. The consequence of this is that the polar
icecaps will melt resulting in a subsequent rise in the sea
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Present research has suggested that there will be an 0.5 - 0.8
degrees C rise in regional surface temperatures during the 20th
century with less warming in the northern hemisphere. As a
consequence of this, Pacific Island countries are experiencing
certain effects which are consistent with the anticipated
impacts of global climate change such as adverse effects on
human health, drought and the subsequent decline of agricultural
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This will adversely affect many Indian Ocean, Atlantic and
Pacific Islands, particularly those comprising low-lying coral
atolls. Indeed, the effects of global warming are already
becoming apparent in many of the outer islands of Papua New
Guinea where the rising sea water level has spilled inland with
a resultant detrimental effect on food gardens and crops. Indeed,
when the tide subsides, pools of salt water remain causing the
root crops such as banana, breadfruit trees and other foods to
die from an excessive intake of salty water.
There are not many options available to islanders in order to
counter the effects of global warming and rising sea levels. |
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The option of resettling people who lose their island atolls as
a result of global warming appears to be the only viable one. In
some cases, this may eventually result in the resettlement of
virtually all the population of many of our atoll island
nations....they will simply disappear. In other cases, this may
involve the relocation of people from an outer island to the
main island. In any event, it will be a significant occasion
particularly as generations of the people involved may have |
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lived on the island for hundreds of years and their ancestral
and spiritual roots are deeply buried in the soil. |
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Tourism and Nature Under a Adventure tourism like trekking,
snorkeling, wathing birds, Christmas Island is a unique
destination of huge natural and cultural tropical diversity.
Known as Australia’s Galapagos - with 253 endemic animals and
plants, and another 160 that do not occur anywhere else in
Australia. No other land area or reserve in Australia supports
so many internationally and nationally significant species in
such a small area.Participants will be invited to assist
scientists in their research with daily field trips to an
ornithological and biological Garden of Eden at the 3rd annual
Bird & Nature Week:There will be nightly seminars, photography
workshops and special biology guided tours to explore the
natural beauty and exotic wildlife of Australia’s most
spectacular, yet rarely visited tropical island.Christmas Island
is famous for her annual crab migration which begins with the
year-end wet season, when you will see millions of crabs moving
down to the sea along the forest trails. Almost two-thirds of
the island has been declared a national park, making Christmas
Island a preimire eco destination offering world-class diving &
snorkeling, and the chance to see turtles, dolphins, whale
sharks, and rare and endemic seabirds.
Discover this unique paradise by participating in the Christmas
Island Bird & Nature Week |
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Amateur Radio and Tourism Creating friendships across the globe,
local ham radio operators are communicating cross-culturally,
and even helping to bring tourism into the island they're
promoting.The constant growth of the amateur radio hobby has
produced a continuously growing on Dxpedition interest on remote
exatic and paradisiac islands. Amateur radio, often called ham
radio, is both a hobby and a service that uses various types of
radio communications equipment to communicate with other radio
amateurs for public service, recreation and self-training. |
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A participant is called an amateur radio operator, or a ham.
Amateur Radio Operatores take part in wireless communications
with each other and often support their communities with
emergency and disaster communications while increasing their
personal knowledge of electronics and radio theory
Visit Christmas Island !
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