LAST MINUTE: 9 ISLANDS TO VISIT

We present to you the best 9 islands must-go, before they literally disappear.

by Team Paris Social Diary, photography by Courtesy | 28 March, 2016

 

There are climate skeptics of global warming, and tourist-pressed paradise islands  to visit before they are —faster than you thought, engulfed by water.

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The Carteret Islands

The Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea, are a group of small islands called Han Jangain, Yesila, Yolasa and Piul. With less than 1000 inhabitants on the mainland, Han, the archipelago can survive erosion and sea level which is increasing every year.

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Since 2003, there is a red alert and families—first official climate refugees  were evacuated while some islands are now extinct, submerged. Only Han, with its trees, still resists. (Not for long)

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Fulanga, Fiji

Fulanga is one of 332 islands that make up the archipelago of Fiji. This grail South Pacific where it is good to relax at all times is also threatened by water erosion.

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Be there soon, or be close.

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The island of Grenada in the West Indies

In 2014, on the occasion of World Environment Day under the aegis of the UN, Roland Bhola, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment of the Government of Grenada, has sounded the alarm together with the ministers of the Marshall islands and the Maldives.

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“We have already dealing with the effects of rising sea levels,” he recalled fearing for his island of 350 square kilometers which currently hosts about 100 000 inhabitants. We must act quickly to visit St George …”

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Marshall Islands

The President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands said, for the skeptics, following unprecedented natural disaster in its territory: “In the Marshall Islands, as elsewhere in the Pacific, climate change is no longer a distant threat, or our door.

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Climate change happens all the time.

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The Maldives

In South-West Asia, the crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean, the Maldives hide their sentence in paradise tunes. With 80% of land in the archipelago established within one meter of sea level, the majority of the thousand islands will disappear by 2100.

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Coastal erosion, floods, storms … It is only the beginning of the end for its 400 000 inhabitants. Meanwhile the drama quickly, we flew to Maafushi (or its neighbor)!

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Cook Islands

Between New Zealand and Hawaii in the heart of the South Pacific, the five islands that make up the Cook Islands are all in danger. In the south, the volcanic islands and coral reefs; north, where tourists flock to curl up in sublime lagoons.

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Bad news for classy adventurers in search of sun: the north of the archipelago is the most threatened, even if all Cook fear rising sea levels due to melting ice.

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CAPT VERT

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Coastal erosion in West Africa presents a major risk, especially for Cape Verde, and its pretty port of Mindelo, on the island of Sao Vicente.

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Palau

The Palau archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, is one of the best diving destinations.

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However, it is rumored growing in the region: climate change has an effect of “slow-motion tsunami” as throughout Micronesia elsewhere, where one meter of water could make the islands uninhabitable. Lookin for Nemo …

Seychelles

Seychelles is the little darlings of the Indian Ocean, with its 115 islands and luxury hotels, the Four Seasons at the Hilton.

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Yet, a few meters spas where tourists loll, the coral dies and the consequences of drought are alarming for the ecosystem of the region.