KIRIBATI: GLOBAL WARMING BLAMED AS SEA LEVELS AND LARGE WAVES FLOOD BEACH HOMES ON TINY SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND OF KIRIBATI

Record ID: 931318

  • Title: KIRIBATI: GLOBAL WARMING BLAMED AS SEA LEVELS AND LARGE WAVES FLOOD BEACH HOMES ON TINY SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND OF KIRIBATI
  • Date: 14th February 2005
  • Summary: (BN04)TARAWA, KIRIBATI (FEBRUARY 2005) (GREENPEACE VNR) 1. VARIOUS OF WAVES CRASHING INTO BEACH HUTS (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. MAN INSIDE FLOODED HUT 0.19 3. WAVES CRASHING INTO HUT 0.24 4. MAN SURVEYING DAMAGE 0.27 5. VARIOUS OF WAVES IN PIGLET PEN (2 SHOTS) 0.37 6. VARIOUS OF MAN TRYING TO CARRY TABLE FROM REMAINS OF HOUSE AS WAVES CRASH AROUND 0.49 7. SEA WATER SPLASHING, WOMEN OUTSIDE DESTROYED HUTS 0.57 8. VARIOUS OF WATER SURROUNDING HUTS, CHILDREN PLAYING (2 SHOTS) 1.08 9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BEIATAAKE OREA, NEIGHBOUR OF FAMILY WHOSE HOME WAS DESTROYED BY RISING SEA WATER, SAYING: "The Sea has been very cruel to Kiribati and it is getting higher, this I notice......It worries us a lot, yes we are worrying, I am afraid of the future, I don't know what will happen to Kiribati." 1.40 10. VARIOUS OF WAVES CRASHING OVER CAUSEWAY (2 SHOTS) 2.03 (BN04)VARIOUS LOCATIONS, KIRIBATI (FEBRUARY 2005) (GREENPEACE VNR) 11. VARIOUS OF FLOODED VILLAGE 2.08 12. VARIOUS OF STACKS OF SAND BAGS PROTECTING BEACH HOUSE (2 SHOTS) 2.22 13. VARIOUS OF TREE PROTRUDING FROM WATER WHERE MAUNGATABU ISLAND USED TO BE (2 SHOTS) 2.34 14. PRESIDENT OF KIRIBATI ANOTE TONG WALKING ALONG CARRYING FISH 2.38 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANOTE TONG, PRESIDENT OF KIRIBATI, SAYING: "For most developed countries this is not a matter of high priority as they don't live on small atolls so they don't have this problem so their priority will always be to their own people so they go for economic growth at the cost, at the ultimate cost of perhaps small islands like ours maybe disappearing one day." 3.00 16. GV: ISLAND SURROUNDED BY WATER 3.04 17. SUNSET OVER ISLAND 3.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: TARAWA, VARIOUS LOCATIONS, KIRIBATI
  • Country: Kiribati
  • Reuters ID: LVAMWK6DTSLOXZ3I7T8RB22HVDL
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