All Inhabitants Of Carterets Islands (PNG) To Be Resettled On Bougainville

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by Nelson K. Philip] The Carterets Islanders will be relocated to Tinputz on mainland Bougainville, 10 families at a time. The Autonomous Bougainville Government had endorsed the atolls development policy to relocate the islanders starting next year. It is expected to be completed by 2020.

The Catholic church of Bougainville gave 81 ha of land in the Tinputz area to accommodate the 3,320 Carterets islanders who feared they would be losing some of their basic human rights, especially land ownership. Coordinator for the relocation Ursula Rakova recently presented a documentary to the Individual and Community Rights Advocacy forum on human rights entitled "The plight of the Carterets Islanders on the sinking atolls. Do we have rights?"

The Carterets Islands, home to about 3,320 people, comprise six coral isles located 86 km northwest of Buka and Bougainville islands. Due to global warming and climate change, sea water is swamping the islands, making them uninhabitable and forcing the population to relocate to mainland Bougainville, especially to the Tinputz area.

"The Carterets Islands are sinking and I am here to present and share with you the anguish and uncertain feeling of my people," Mrs Rakova said. She said that in the Carteret Islands land was held by women, as in Bougainville where the land ownership was passed from mother to daughter.

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http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1555148/papua_new_guinea_to_resettle_islanders_facing_rising_sea_level/

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1. Let's resettle Palin on the Carterets Islands !

:think: See if she believes in GW after that

[The Croquist]

2. At 3 millimeters a year by 2020 the ocean will have risen 36 millimeters!!!!

That's almost one and a half inches in just 12 years and all because of "global warming and climate change".

Please. If the island is sinking fast enough to be noticed it's not the ocean coming up but the island going down. Sea level has been rising for 18,000 years and has averaged twice the current rate over that period of time.