Island Woes Stark Warning for Land Dwellers
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The extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents.
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If rising sea levels force the people of the Maldive Islands to seek new homes, who will look after them in a world already turning warier of refugees?
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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Climate change is just one of the threats facing some small island developing states, the United Nations says.
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Some of the world's most treasured destinations are in peril. Many are being trashed by mass tourism, with an assist from indifferent government policies and greedy developers. Among them:  _Easter Island.
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Decades-old clunkers with rotted body panels, noisy mufflers, dubious brakes and windows fashioned from plastic sheets have been part of island life for as long as anyone can remember. But late-model Lexuses, Volvos and BMWs are cropping up on Peaks Island, and some fear the trend shows how the tranquil, slow-paced lifestyle is being traded in for a speedier, wealthier way of life.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador -- An unremarkable day on the archipelago. A taxi honks at a meandering pedestrian. Shirtless men play dominoes by the market, shooing away fearless seagulls that vie for fish scraps. Dockworkers empty another cargo boat, while sunburned tourists listen to their guides explain...
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Scientists predict killer tsunamis could strike the Caribbean, which lacks a warning system even though its seabed is gouged by some of the world's deepest trenches, where the giant waves can be generated by tectonic activity, and its low-lying islands are heavily populated along their coastlines.
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Water supplies on some Indian Ocean islands may have been ruined for years or decades by salt water from the tsunami.
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Four decades after it was abandoned, King Island holds an almost mystical pull for former inhabitants and their descendants, its crumbling homes still perched on stilts, clinging to the steep, rocky terrain.
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A remote Scottish island has come under growing pressure to end a controversial annual cull of hedgehogs, and ferry them to the mainland instead.
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Rising sea levels are threatening parts of the Giant's Causeway and other coastal areas of Northern Ireland.
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Entire villages were wiped out in the tiny Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal. They lost more than 3000 residents in the disaster - 12 per cent of their population.
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Residents of this low-lying atoll are being forced to seek refuge on the sea more than a week after it rose up and destroyed their homes.
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PADANG, Indonesia - Days of colossal earthquakes and tsunami warnings have forced traumatized Indonesian villagers to seek safety in the last place imaginable: graveyards.
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Heathland species are in danger of extinction because of poor habitat, conservationists warn.