Climate Migrations
Vanuatu has become the latest country to draw up plans to relocate villages as they face the threat of being swamped by rising sea level. The South Pacific island nation says residents of dozens of long-established communities will have to move to higher ground on its chain of islands.
“It’s going to be a huge challenge and a huge tragedy for many people who would have to leave their ancestral land to move to other places, but that’s the reality,” said Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu. Mountainous Vanuatu is more fortunate than low-lying island countries threatened by rising tides because it has higher terrain where people can relocate.
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