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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated 4 September 2013, 10:38 AEST Landowners on the island of Banaba in Kiribati say they are still fighting for compensation from Australia, New Zealand and Britain for the m…

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated 4 September 2013, 10:38 AEST

Landowners on the island of Banaba in Kiribati say they are…

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Added by Stacey King on September 4, 2013 at 7:59pm — No Comments

Escape to Rabi Island - Cruise of the Lady Bug

Monday, July 22, 2013

We have been out of range of the internet for a week now. The next few posts will catch up with our time on Rabi Island.

When we dropped the anchor at Kennedy Cove off northwest Kioa, we knew it would be a temporary shelter as there were no houses (for social interaction) or beach to keep us happy for a week.…

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Added by Stacey King on July 25, 2013 at 10:30am — No Comments

Days Of Our Lives on Rabi Island - Cruise of the Lady Bug

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

A few days after our arrival at Albert Cove, Bill and Tekete's older daughter Tabeta arrived and livened the place up with her laughter and cheeky humour. She is almost the same age as Rara (thirty something) and the two hung out together to gossip and laugh…

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Added by Stacey King on July 25, 2013 at 10:25am — No Comments

Rabi - First Contact

Monday, July 22, 2013

Our first trip ashore at Albert Cove (the settlement of Motawi) was a short one and we met the people who lived in two palm-thatched houses just off the beach. We took some tea and noodles as gifts and chatted for awhile. The patriarch of the larger family, Samuel, was visiting the couple who lived on their own, close to where we beached the dinghy.…

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Added by Stacey King on July 25, 2013 at 10:22am — No Comments

Australia must prepare for environmental migrants - academic

Updated 6 December 2012, 9:46 AEST

Australia must prepare for environmental migrants.…

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Added by Stacey King on December 7, 2012 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

'Shark Rescued Me As I Drifted In The Pacific,' Claims Policeman Toakai Teitoi

The Huffington Post UK | By Ted Thornhill …

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Added by Stacey King on September 17, 2012 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Pacific Island sailors lost at sea for 33 days wash up on remote atoll – and discover descendants of uncle feared drowned in the Fifties

By Damien Gayle Last updated at 4:14 PM on 13th December 2011

When Pacific Islanders Uein Buranibwe, 53, and Temaei Tontaake, 26, found themselves adrift, with their GPS locator broken, they feared they would meet the same end as their long-lost uncle, Bairo.

He had cast off from their island home, Kiribati, to go fishing one day in the Fifties and had never returned. He was assumed drowned in the vast expanse of the South Pacific.

But neither Mr Buranibwe nor Mr…

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Added by Stacey King on December 19, 2011 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Pacific islanders reflect 'human face' of climate change

Residents of Tuvalu in the South Pacific will show audiences at Royce Hall and venues across the country their cultural heritage in music and dance. Performers in "Water is Rising: Music and Dance amid Climate Change," created by Emerita Professor Judy Mitoma, are also coming from the island nations of Tokelau and Kiribati to voice their concern about the rising sea levels caused by…

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Added by Stacey King on October 11, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Kiribati considers floating islands to combat sea levels

ABC RADIO NEWS Updated September 07, 2011 14:10:00

The small Pacific island nation of Kiribati has indicated it's considering building what it describes as 'floating islands' to deal with rising sea levels. The country's president has discussed the idea at the Pacific Islands Forum in New Zealand, where regional leaders are looking at ways to deal with climate change.

(Simon Cullen)

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Added by Stacey King on September 7, 2011 at 4:22pm — No Comments

Energy Resources - Climate change threatening island nations - Kiribati

Published: Sept. 6, 2011 at 10:00 AM

Google Map Kiribati Islands

SOUTH TARAWA, Kiribati, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- High tides in island nations in the Pacific Ocean are indicative of the global threat posed by climate change, the U.N. secretary general…

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Added by Stacey King on September 7, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

New film tells personal stories of Pacific sea level rise

ABC RADIO Pacific Beat Updated June 2, 2011 08:43:33

While climate change is clearly a global issue, small Pacific Islands are sometimes seen as the canaries in the coalmine.

They are the most vulnerable to rising sea levels, and already strugging with salination and dangerous king tides.

An Australian filmmaker and an award winning photographer, Rodney Dekker, recently travelled to…

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Added by Stacey King on June 3, 2011 at 9:47am — No Comments

The sacking of fifty i-Kiribati employees building new boat for Banaba

Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 12:50 pm Press Release: Kiribati Independent

Taberannang Korauaba, The Kiribati Independent

Fifty employees of the Kiribati government owned company Betio Shipyard have been made redundant in a bid to keep the company going, according to The Kiribati Independent.

Last week, the management handed each…

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Added by Stacey King on March 31, 2011 at 9:37am — No Comments

Sea wall no longer an option for some Kiribati communities

PACIFIC BEAT - RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated March 8, 2011 17:51:58

The President of Kiribati says an increasing number of the country's citizens are asking to be relocated because of rising sea waters.

Anote Tong, says Kiribati is in urgent need of funding to manage rising sea levels - and to move whole village communities.

Mr Tong has also raised concerns that some of the nation's young…

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Added by Stacey King on March 9, 2011 at 9:07am — 2 Comments

21 Fattest Countries on Earth Named by WHO

A new list compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) names the 21 fattest places on earth, reports CBS News. While about 67 percent of Americans are overweight, the U.S. certainly isn't the only country with a weight problem. The top five overweight nations and their percentages overweight include Panama (67.4), Saudi Arabia (73), French Polynesia (74), Kiribati (82) and American Samoa (94). Other countries on WHO's fat list include Canada, Chile, the Indian Ocean nation… Continue

Added by Stacey King on December 9, 2010 at 1:49pm — No Comments

Fighting for survival in Cancun - Pelenise video interview

December 4, 2010 – 2:50 pm, by…

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Added by Stacey King on December 8, 2010 at 4:57pm — No Comments

Passing of Nei Kautu Tioti on Tarawa

11-Sep-10, 13:19:59, GMT +11 | Tebano Teinamati | Location: Tarawa, Kiribati

Bon te kananokawaki ngketawanou nte bong aei 12:20pm(11/09/2010) bwa ea wene ni motirawa ma te rau nei Kautu Tioti are tibun Bureitaake I Teaoraereke, Kiribati ni kawan te reirei ae St. Louis High Sch. n anauti nei Mary Maio.

Bukin matena ea bon roko i rouna te aoraki ni wene ni man irouna ao ea moamoa riki e a boni kara.

Ma kamwa taiaoka ni nake…

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Added by Stacey King on September 11, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Kiribati – Going off the surf map

August 22, 2010 By ASP Addict DailyStoke.com

Looking for tropical South Pacific perfection without the crowds? Look no further than the island nation of Kiribati. Pronounced Kiribas, the name is an indigenous pronunciation of Gilberts (say it quickly and you’ll hear the connection), from the British Captain Thomas Gilbert, who “discovered” the islands in 1788. Independent since July 1979, the Republic…

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Added by Stacey King on August 23, 2010 at 2:12pm — No Comments

Australia urged to speed up Pacific seasonal worker scheme

ABC Radio Australia: Pacific Beat Updated July 20, 2010 17:02:41

Pacific island leaders have been urged to raise the slow progress of Australia's Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme at the regional leaders summit in Vanuatu next month. Under the pilot scheme, 2,500 workers from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu would work in…

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Added by Stacey King on July 21, 2010 at 10:40am — No Comments

Amelia Earhart: The Female Robinson Crusoe?

By Sam Brand | Saturday, June 26, 2010 8:57 AM ET

A new study suggests the celebrated airwoman may have lived for months on Nikumaroro, a remote island in the republic of Kiribati, before her remains were lost to time.

There’s a fair…

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Added by Stacey King on June 27, 2010 at 10:12am — No Comments

Fiji concerns on over-fishing

Friday, June 25, 2010 Fiji Broadcasting Corporation

Bigger fishing countries are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of small island states to over-fish and plunder their fish stocks, says Fiji Fish Managing Director Graham Southwick.

Southwick says these bigger countries have destroyed their fishing grounds due to poor management and are now setting their sights on the South Pacific.

While the Tuna Commission governing…

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Added by Stacey King on June 25, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment