We’ve made problems for corals, for sure. Ocean acidification is caused by humans’ carbon dioxide emissions, making it harder for corals to live and grow
Micro plastics are very small pieces of plastics, often created when water bottles, nappies, fishing nets, bags, paint and more are broken down by the waves and sun. Corals can mistake microplastics for living plankton their usual food.
Changes in seawater chemistry are the other greenhouse gas crisis. Our global ocean absorbs approximately 30% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) we release into the atmosphere.
Recycling of waste materials in the Pacific Islands is an economic challenge. The islands are remote, populations and quantities of material generated as waste are comparatively small; shipping costs are high and the recyclable materials will have to be exported for industrial processing.
The Shared Approach is intended to benefit the Pacific Island Countries through supporting and strengthening country safeguard/environmental and social systems; improving development effectiveness through the implementation of common methods, procedures and terminology; and refining counterpart understanding of PRIF development partner processes.
Lately the meteorological team have developed an online tool for surfing the weather patterns. This can help anyone with access to the internet what the weather will be like daily. Information provided has been given on a divisional scale as Pacific Island Countries can experience a high range of rainfall variability within country. It is possible to have forecasts which simultaneously favour above and below normal rainfall in different parts of the one country.
The time-tested Indigenous fishing knowledge (IFK) of Fiji and the Pacific Island is seriously threatened due to the commercialization of fishing, breakdown of tradition communal leadership and oral knowledge transmission systems, modern education and the movement of the younger generations to urban areas for work and/or study.
