Kiribati President Purchases ‘Worthless' Resettlement Land as Precaution Against Rising Sea

Kiribati President Purchases ‘Worthless' Resettlement Land as Precaution Against Rising Sea

10 JUNE 2014

You can count the inhabitants of this isolated, tidy village of multi-coloured houses and flower bushes among global warming's first victims – but not in the usual sense.

They are descendants of labourers from the Solomon Islands who came to Fiji to work on the coconut plantations in the 19th century. In 1947, they were invited to move onto a large one called the Natoavatu Estate that the Anglican Church once inherited and were told they could stay there indefinitely as long as they practiced the Anglican faith.

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Source: Thomas Reuters Foundation

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