2009Jan12: Reclaiming land for seven safe islands in the Maldives should be considered as a last-resort option, according to Ali Rilwan, from Bluepeace. “Finding a new homeland [for Maldives residents] is not a solution. It is not easy for people to abandon 2,000 years of heritage and migrate. We don’t believe in reclamation, but in a doomsday scenario we don’t have much choice but to develop a few places for our survival, says Rilwan (BBC).
Reference: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7814446.stm
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