2007Oct30: Fijian planners are establishing guidelines for how far above the water bungalows should be built to be safe if the sea level rises. “At the moment the effect is subtle, but we don’t want our reefs – our island – to disappear,” said Banuve Kaumaitotoya, permanent secretary of Fiji’s new Ministry of Tourism and Environment (IHT, 2007).
Reference: IHT. 2007. http://iht.com/articles/2007/10/30/business/tourism.php
Image Description: Fiji, 2001. Credit Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Fiji_June_2001.jpg Image Permission: This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that “NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted”.
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