New Zealand and Pacific Islands Correspondent for @AFP | Sports commentator | Cricketer. LFC, GSW and 49ers tragic. Prefer dogs to humans. I think for myself.
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Climate-threatened Fijian utopia rejects calls to relocate.
As the sun sets over Fiji's tiny Serua Island, its climate-threatened inhabitants soak in one of the reasons they have rejected attempts to relocate their village -- the "$100 million views"
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Paid a visit to seriously stunning Serua Island in Fiji earlier this month. The 99 inhabitants are rejecting calls for them to relocate due to rising seas, because who would leave behind "$100 million views"?
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Shreyas Iyer says teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi "can't just walk straight into the team" as India prepare for the T20 series against New Zealand, starting tomorrow night. @AFP
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In a remote Fijian village, rising energy bills and concerns over fuel supplies are pushing households towards solar power, underscoring the vulnerability of Pacific islands to global energy shocks
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«On est fiers de ce travail» : aux Fidji, un village restaure des coraux et ravive la pêche
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➡️ Voilà des décennies que des habitants n'avaient pas vu de requins le long du récif au large de Naidiri, petit village des Fidji. Mais leurs efforts pour protéger les lieux de pêche en restaurant des milliers de coraux ont porté leurs fruits.
Spent a day in Naidiri Village in Fiji, which has managed to restore its dying fishery and planted tens of thousands of heat resistant corals.
Shows how a tiny village can secure its future in the face of climate change. @AFP
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It had been decades since sharks last patrolled the reef off the coast of Fiji's Naidiri Village, but they returned this year following a community-led effort to protect the fishery and plant thousands of corals
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Pretty obvious watching this election debate why the minor parties are all gaining support. Tough watch.
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#UPDATE The execution by firing squad of convicted military base shooter Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed, a Pentagon official said Thursday, after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said it would be carried out in "public."
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Sat down with Fiji’s climate minister Lynda Tabuya at pre-COP. She told me it can take up to 5 years from the approval of climate finance to actually receiving the money.
It’s personal for her. Her own village is losing ground to the ocean.
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Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against West Bank olive farmers. u.afp.com/S9Fe
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🇫🇯 Pacific nations take centre stage at 'pre-COP' climate summit
Pacific leaders push for the world to stick to a target of limiting global warming to 1.5C, enhance access to climate finance and give more attention to the impact on oceans as the UN "pre-COP" climate gathering kicks off in the Fijian city of Nadi.
Spent the day in one of the world’s most remote, and most at risk from climate change, countries in the world, Tuvalu 🇹🇻
A senior advisor told me Tuvalu was unimpressed by Australia’s conduct in hosting the pre-COP summit.
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Pacific "pre-COP" meeting.
Leaders visit the tiny Pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu for a first-hand look at a once-vibrant ecosystem wiped out due to climate change
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حثت #فيجي الدول المتقدمة الاثنين على دعم انتقال عادل نحو الطاقة المتجددة ومساندة الفئات الأكثر عرضة لمخاطر التغير المناخي من خلال توفير التمويل اللازم، وذلك بالتزامن مع انطلاق الاجتماع التحضيري لمؤتمر المناخ للأمم المتحدة في مدينة نادي في فيجي.
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Thanks to rising sea levels, scientists fear the entire archipelago could be unliveable by the end of the century
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NADI, Fiji — When leaders visit the coral atolls that form the Pacific nation of Tuvalu on Tuesday, they will find a once-vibrant ecosystem wiped out due to climate change. manilatimes.net/2026/10/05/w…
Tuvalu's coral reefs were once the best in the world. Now they're dead.
"The very system that created the islands has died. It wasn't pollution. It wasn't overfishing. Just a direct result from climate change."
My latest for @AFP
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In Fiji for the pre-COP summit. @AFP among the select few heading to Tuvalu on Tuesday with the leaders. Big few days ahead.
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