Adapting To A Changing Climate In Rarotonga

http://www.greenpeace.org.au || Teava Iro was born in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. He remembers that, as a boy, his father would teach him how to fish in the lagoon, where a vibrant coral garden attracted an abundance of colourful fish.

Today, its a different story. Teava doesnt bother fishing anymore. The coral is bleached and fish stocks are depleted and sometimes poisonous. Instead, Teava spends his long working days setting up food security projects. He farms fish inland, grows organic vegetables, bottles noni juice, and tries to educate his community about self-reliance and biological farming. Teava asks that regional and global leaders get out of their concrete offices and have a look around at what nature is trying to tell us that there is a climate emergency.

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• climate change
• pacific
• cook islands
• environment
• fishing
• coral
• resort
• greenpeace
• global warming

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Since they were unable to make the connection between the surface run-off pollutants and the way Rarotonga discharges is bio-waste the only thing left to do is blame Global Warming.....Wait a second, Climate Change, on the deteriorating conditions in this lagoon. Lets not forget the removal of the filter-feeders in the lagoon either. Folks....This "Changing Climate" gambit is fraud.