Fiji: The Last Resort - The Villages in Paradise Being Swallowed by the Sea | Foreign Correspondent
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- With tourism back and booming, Fiji is again a number one destination for travelers seeking an island paradise experience. And while water lapping on the shoreline might make for an Instagram worthy picture, for the people of Fiji, it presents a threat to their way of life.
This week on Foreign Correspondent special guest reporter Craig Reucassel travels across the islands of Fiji to see how the nation is combatting climate change. With his trademark style, Craig goes off the tourist track and shows what living with climate change actually means for those who don’t have the luxury of arguing about it.
More than 800 villages are now on a government climate risk list - some communities have already been moved to higher ground but others are resisting. And many are asking: who caused the problem and who should pay to fix it?
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Thank you for this documentary! It makes my heart sad for my beloved country of birth. 🇫🇯 This was a balanced and well-researched presentation. The Fijian people are resilient and I am confident they will find a way to cope with this unfortunate situation. As was brought out, they are dealing with the consequences of others’ actions. It just shows how we are much more connected than we realize or want to acknowledge. 😢
What beautiful people and beautiful place unfortunately mother nature is warn out not just Fiji many parts around the world
Blessings to the people
From Australia
Bruh I'm Aussie
@@Darkxsoul0513 Gidday mate. 👍
What a beautiful but sad story. And the reporter has captured it really well. He’s captured the emotions of the people, their essence and their struggle. And I love that he embraced the journey fully and respectfully. ❤
Fiji, what a beautiful place.
A magical country, heaven on earth. I hope in the future I will have the opportunity to visit this magical place. 🌴🌴🌴🏖️🏖️☀️☀️
100% HEAVEN ON EARTH 🌎
I am from Fiji living in New York now with some of my Family still in Fiji, this is very sad to see! My Dads mother comes from the Yasawas and sea level is creeping up more and more there too and Hurricanes as much of the rest of Fiji being bad with Hurricanes Yasaws gets bad Hurricanes too! This is eeally sad to see God Bless Fiji!
You from Yasawa???????? That is from Vanua Levu side
After watching this I looked up a Fiji resort I stayed at over 30 years ago in 1989. I found it on Google Earth. It’s now called The Warwick. I thought maybe it would be all washed away after watching this report about the seas rising fast. The good news is that nothing has changed since 1989. I also visited another resort on Google Earth- the Fijian. Again the beach was exactly the same as when I was there? Both resorts were right on the beach. Why is there no change at those resorts versus what you show here? It would be great to understand more about this topic. Sea level rises don’t seem to have happened at the two resorts that I visited. And there doesn’t seem to be any impact from increased storm surges on these resorts.
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and that these island are facing the full force of it ,but on the other side of the island not so much.
I do agree with your experience , back in the mid 1960s up to the early 1980s a British master mariner , extra master captain , who was a relation , was running the merchant marine vessels movements , was living there , him and his family were very involved with all aspects of life in the community , they subsequently fully retired there ,now both in their 90s , say that other than more people ,development ,and infrastructure becoming more modern day and tourism ,along with the natural consequence of this The place has not become the devastated islands portrayed by the climate scare mongering left wing zealots ( their words ) they explain that some areas and small low lying soft loose sandy coastal beaches are indeed suffering erosional loss ,due to weather / Ocean movements , But
confirm no more or less than anywhere in the world , And are adamant that the Fijian government / politician's are happy to promote doom and disaster scenarios in order to get more Aid , disaster relief money from international organizations ,to fill their own bank accounts This video showing and portraying all this global rising sea levels is yet more nonsense by lunatic idiots that are immature no real life knowledge kids that still need mummy to clean them after going to the bathroom , total retards, if all the ice in the entire world melted the sea levels would not rise more than a millimeter or two , climate propaganda idiots
@@peterg791 sadly this is true Peter and nations that are Aiding are getting fed up
used to live in Fiji, many smaller offshore coral islands are the same hardly any erosion. Most areas where this occurs as shown is normally down to stupid changes to land made by man in the first instance....without knowledge and understanding...yes storms do have an effect and have done for 200years in Fiji...but sea level always returns to the same level following them..
There are numerous other factors associated with sea level rise to consider. The main factor is actually coastal erosion. Sandy soil substrate where mangroves have been destroyed is lost to the sea easily whereas bedrock areas are fine. The orientation of the coast also matters. The side that first contacts the typical cyclone path is eroded first. Furthermore, the larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are less prone to such massive land losses as opposed to the smaller islands.
Also remember that the owners of the resort you went to probably have deep pockets. They are able to pay for sea walls, land reclamation, and new sand whereas the poor Fijians are not and can do little to prevent their islands from falling into the ocean.
A very beautiful yet accurate story of what has been happening in Fiji and around the world..especially coastal areas and the hardship and sacrifice of leaving your roots and land to relocate..💙
I visted the same village 4 years apart at the same time of year. The bleaching of the reef, and loss of marine life was striking. No one wanted to talk about it. Too sad for them to acknowledge publicly.
thank you for this upload. I am a 1st generation Australian, my parents are from Fiji, Ba town. "GOD BLESS FIJI" "toso viti toso"
30 If you think that the purpose of a Bible is to confirm Messages or to support the preachings of the churches then you have not understood anything of Christianity! You see?
31 Give each book back to its generation and you will see that: "bible institute", "pastoral school" and all that do not mean anything and the world does not need them! [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"]. Give each book back to its generation and you will see that you are naked! This is madness!
32 When you see in the Bible: "book of Isaiah", understand through that: " The book of the generation of Prophet Isaiah "or "book of Prophet Isaiah for his generation".
Fiji just a beautiful island and the people and just the best.
I have visited only as a tourist- thank you for uploading this video to give an insight of how the locals live etc😊
Fiji is beautiful country..
Beautifully made. My heart is with these gentle people.
Sea levels are not rising, islands are simply being reclaimed and sinking back into the sea. Sea level cannot rise sporadically in certain areas, if there is a rise, all oceans everywhere rise together.
Well said it's simple science.
There are measuring stations all over the world.
@@44Magnumproductions1 And they all show sea levels rising -;))
@@Hochspitz (very slightly - mm per decade is easy to account for - if the measurements can be trusted in the face of local subsidence from groundwater extraction and millions of tonnes of infrastructure on river estuaries, ... , not to mention glacial rebound and subsidence coupled with subterranean resource extraction ) - we can say it is complicated, and satellite data is all too recent to pick long term trends.
@@kadmow Satelite data does not show sea level rise or fall, it merely shows landmass either shrinking or expanding. Tide guages are the only true way to measure SLR.
@@Hochspitz of insignificant amounts, oceanfront development is still in full effect with billions being spent. Either these developers are really dumb or do they know the truth of the matter. Remember, the Maldives were supposed to be gone by now and the statue of liberty was suppose to have water up to here elbow by now.
beautiful island and friendly people
Beautifully shot
Wow that was really interesting thank you for sharing :) my heart goes out to them. Love to them all from Tasmania Australia
Options: 1) use the sea as source of income, catch good fishes for export, 2) grow forest of mangrove to beat erosion, 3) import earth and garbage to landfill and raise the elevation of land. 4) train people (nurses, doctors, engineer, etc) and send them overseas.
And Tourism, sea wall, etc. My two cents.
Villages that should never have been built so close to the shoreline...The tragedy in this article is the article itself......
We've been hearing this for 50 years
Yeah. Climate change has been well understood for 50 years, at least.
@@ledpup Manmade climate change is a hoax.
Wut? Climate change?
The climate has always changed yeah?
@@moregoldmoregold Anthropogenic
Yep, and now it’s happening. Should have taken that advice 50 years ago
This made me cry
What’s coming for your home land is a lot worse then this.
Aweee they sang the farewell song to him at the end. I always get teary when I hear such songs from the homeland
Beautiful place and people ❤
Call to action for the Dutch! Let’s pay the golden age financed flood abatement skills and tools forward @Boskalis and Netherlands Centre for Coastal Research
Just watched a documentary on Narcotics shipped through Fuji on their way to Australia and New Zealand. Heart breaking to see that man and nature are fighting to destroy a way of life for this life that honors it's cultural ancestral history.😮😮😢
What if the people just build houses a bit further in land and and plant mangrove trees along the coastline, that would be better to do than having your first house taken over by the sea, then relocate to another location right next to the sea shore, its obvious of what will happen again.
I visited the original Vunidogoloa village in 1918. Its sad to see the rundown original village. And this is the impact of climate change and rising sea level.
Similar things happen in Australia. Deforestation causing huge amounts of erosion and destruction of mangrove and native coastal vegetation has caused a great deal of coastline retreat.
Exceptionally beautiful
And so sad that these tragedies are happening
I would love one of those mats!
Thank you very much from Italy
Loved fiji island.. Malolo island. Honeymooned there 20 years ago this November😊😢
*Poor people. they didn't cause this but have to deal with the brunt of it.*
Nobody caused it.
Good documentary...am living in Fiji myself and most things we are not aware ourselves....
'Water levels will continue to rise and many places will continue to sink and the future doesn't look good' 😢. But there will be more efforts to protect the impacted population, too. Australia will help Fiji prepare for future cyclones.
Traveled there 2 extended week trips several years apart. Such genuine friendly and good hearted people. They do have a say each village chief represents their village in parliament. To what extent the political climate since our trips has changed I’m not certain. It’s a long trip from west coast of US. 🌸
It's always intriguing to understand how different cultures believe there spirits or religious following will save them from certain death or catastrophic loses of homes. I think the discussions on how much sea level has risen within the last 5-10 years in the regions shown is a mock-up. Not saying levels aren't rising but if sea levels are to rise at the rate explained by Fijian locals then Ive got dooms day news for our entire planet. It's over.
They are Beautiful People.
Could Go some Kava & Guitar right Now.
I miss it❤...
Vinaka Great video🇫🇯🏝🙏🏼
Heartbreaking 😢💔
Magical people
There smearts of Fiji that are sinkin, some are being eroded.
Where I live in Fiji the tide has not moved in Years!
Erosian in some of the smaller islands gives the impression of rising tides.
There are side by side photos of the prison island in sidney Harbour 100 years apart. you can see the same rocks with sea level a tthe exact same place. There is so much drible out there!
nice
I think there’s two states NSW and Queensland are the only states you are allowed a referral from the doctor for you to use the hemp oil but it’s still illegal
My village is in the yasawa islands while i live in the city of lautoka. After 3 years that i went back to my village the beaches which we use to play on when i was a kid is now under water. Sea water is flooding low lying areas, farms. However our island has big mountain which we can retreat too but for how far. Once the sea water will flood all the flat lands,how safe are we on the mountains, where there can be landslide.
It's natural
Fijians seem like they're better people than Maori, by a Landslide. Would love to meet them one day.
Super friendly people and incredibly honest. You should visit one day
God bless Fiji
mmmmmm.....thankfully my village hasn't been flooded with sea levels rising. Would like to know exactly how many villages are affected by rising sea levels because the narrator said, possibly up to 100 villages are at RISK. There are 1193 villages in Fiji. So those 100 villages are at RISK, is that 99 or 78, or 51. I read somewhere that the destruction of mangroves has caused some rising sea levels but I have to confirm that. Just trying to get to the truth because initially, I was shocked but I started to reflect on all the beaches and villages I've been to lately and whether sea level rising has caused the villages to relocate. But I can't think of one village that has been affected by sea level rising. Perhaps I'm blind to whats really happening. Must do more investigation because the editing on this film is narrow. My family and I are about to spend over $100K to build our house in the village and it's very close to the sea. Perhaps we need to build on higher ground or abandon the project altogether.
The world climate is going to change no matter what huamns do. Climate will like it always has and forever more will be changing. We can not stop it from doing what it has always done.
When will you realise the Island is sinking and erosion takes place, this is what happens to Islands. No seas or oceans have risen that dramatically. There is plenty of evidence out the on IOC websites and Ocean websites. Researcher's really need to be more transparent in there documentations. Fiji is a beautiful paradise with beautiful people.
Big countries only think to fight each other ignoring the effect of wars to the smaller ones.
How come sea level is rising there but its not rising near Nadi where I live??
Well its more like erosion instead, same here in Navua. Its just the land sediments being washed down hence huge boulders from the upper Navua river being placed to scorelines to break waves.
The structure of a Fijian village being lost due to relocation. The Govt of the day could have moved them further on higher ground so that the villagers will still be connected to their roots and ancestors. The relocated village is about 2 to 4 km away from their original village and the sea.
Climate change is indeed a threat to us.
Why any island community expects their homeland to always be above sea leve shows how badly we are educating those people. Modern archeology has been discovering ruins under the seas for many years. We know that in the end of the last ice age the sea level increased at least 400 feet inundating thousands of living sites. Now sea level is rising slowley but we can't stop it. All life forms have been forced to move to higher ground in the past to survive. World governments should offer any help possible to facilitate this relocation but to mislead these people into thinking they can remain there by some miracle by mankind is creating false hope .
hells yeah craig.
Isa dou sa yadra mai Namuwaimada. Sa loloma yani mai Ositerelia. Makai mai Navolau.
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Terrible. Lovely people the Fijians.
Perhaps it might be a good idea for the Fiji Government to set up a global charity so that all concerned citizens around the world could contribute to capital works programs to mitigate the effects of sea level rise, storm surge and housing damage, including the building of community storm refuges. Perhaps too the citizens of Fiji could develop their own initiatives and work towards achieving these objectives for their own community outside of government efforts. I'm sure that there's both a will and a way. Bula.
People have been living in mangroves from the beginning of development this is bs…, I lived in Fiji and people squatted around as free land, erosion has happened because of mangrove harvesting and coral reef harvesting, if you takeout your natural defences what do you expect. Preservation awareness is important
SEAWALL WILL BE THE BEST OPTION FOR THE TIME BEING.
Hello they no longer living there Vunidogoloa that is so seawalls useless
Some still doing seawalls others have moved inland
In order to still exist in their provincial land in Vanua Levu to go to other provincial lands they BUY SARALA NOT FREE
@@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855 Sa qai maumau dina .
Vunitogoloa village translated Blackmangrovetree village
This is normal as mother nature
That’s what mankind do to our world,and still not seeing 😢😢😢 our planet 🌏 is already done,and we haven’t another 😢😢😢
It's natural
@@punns643 kidding ❓❓❓
@@kerstin.jitschin5861 Natural processes, such as changes in the sun's energy and volcanic eruptions, also affect the earth's climate.
@@punns643 agree,but you can’t forget Self-made reasons which Make it worse ,and fasten it up lots 😢
@@punns643 you’re right,and we can see it at the moment,so many volcano 🌋 eruption s happening
Lots of trouble and movement between the different earth shields/ plates 🖤🤍❤️🔥 sorry don’t know the correct words
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So sad 😞
Way too much emphasis is being put on sea level rise at this point in time. It is the extreme weather events that are increasing in severity and frequency that are the biggest problem. It's basic thermodynamics - there is more energy in the system and beacause energy can't be destroyed, it does work. Cyclones are stronger from warming seas, evaporation is accelerated causing increased rainfall and chaging rain patterns, more dissolved CO2 is acidifying oceans affecting molluscs and ecosystems. Please stick to the science or you're no better than the deniers.
There isn't an increased frequency of extreme weather events
@@malawidick According to the Australian academy of science there is.
Is that government funded ?
"We're from the government and we're here to help" 🏃♂️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️
😂The chief is a big wallabies Fan.
you see how minimalists they are and they are happy but the rest of us humanity we are filled with greed materialistic gains but only our bones will be left and finally nothing but our spirits
Planting mangroves might help
Desal plants??
How do they know the islands are not either sinking or rising?
Very easy go-to the Ministry of Lands and get the Topographical maps decadel like say 50 60 70 80 90 2000 2010 2020 and 2023 use the mapping equipments like the microscope 🔬 the thing will show well
Use the contour maps draw your cross sections maps for the coastlines decadel wise and see if it is rising or sinking
the common person does not have to fight climate change alone
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Yeah, OK.... this was supposed to happen in 2013..... still waiting......
while i appreciate this. This is entirely focused on the indigenous people. Yet there are indian, asian and other influences. The fijian people are just one, albeit the original ancestors to the land. There are contributions that seak to keep them there - at the bottom - and they arent just climate change. Rise up!
What we need now is another Younger Dryas, and for people to pay sufficient taxes so that the government can prevent any further climate change!
They don't even pay taxes there at all they in town city JURISDICTION AT ALL as they did not buy the place their forefathers you know
Yeah you sain taxes they not tax payers at all
The only thing they do is that subsistence and semi mixed economy
They do not pay anything at all not even the land they on for centuries decades
Only people who pay taxes are those who living in towns cities jurisdiction some in semi rural because the place where they work is IN TOWNS OR CITIES
Whereas those guys most of them not working in places in towns and cities so they don't pay any taxes at all even no superannuation they pay like FNPF
They just work and get money to survive
Hardlife one good thing is that they have the land still free for them descendants of forefathers who came from other countries before Colonialism Eras 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
19 In the Beginning was the Word! It was not a church but the Word! And if it is the Word that has actually created you, you will never say, "I am looking for a good church!"but you will say, "Where is the living prophet of my time, where is the Gospel of my time?"[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
Totoka vakaoti Tusi!
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0-45 face the wrath of indra the
God of thunder and lightening
It's not sea level rise, it's erosion of the shoreline. Why aren't the whole of the Fiji Islands affected? It's the same sea and ocean. Some shorelines are more prone to erosion. Stop the climate alarmism.
My Holy God Yeshuah on holy mountain of Israel bless and preserve your Island Fiji and all natives in Jesus Christ name, Amen
The problem here is that the effects of global warming have already taken their toll on the lives of Polynesians all over the Pacific. While the biggest economies in the world have stumped up and done something about it, it is too little too late. However, it isn't just the fault of developed countries that global warming exists. We have to take the onus to the fact that we all contribute or have contributed to the situation the way it is now and it is going to take the effort of all of us, globally, to make a dent in this. We did it before with the ozone layer, and we can do it again if we only want it that badly.
Fiji invites Italy Justin treasure of Canada
plant mangroves instead of stone walls
"Papal are having to leave their himes"
... like it or not, these poor people's "sedentary"/permanent lifestyle isn't very many generations old, despite appearances of permanency and "significant investment" - they are an Island people, dealing with coastal changes over the millennia.
Permanent infrastructure and siting problems are as significant as any other effect in an ever changing ecosystem.
Victims of something if not exactly climate change (more so the people capitalism is leaving behind) .
Fiji invites doris matsui of congress of USA
Big fail ABC. Clearly didn’t study geography. Heard of subduction? It’s the boundary of two tectonic plates and one is riding up over the other. Fiji is going down but nothing to do with rising sea level, rather a sinking tectonic plate.
100%. ( see comment made above) A google search turns that up pretty quickly. We live in a age of ever increasing denial of logical reasoning.
Sega dua na TAXES SUPERANNUATION ERA SAUMA TU
ERA TU WALE TU GA GONEI
YA NA BULA DINA NA VEIKOROKORO E VUQA I VITI.
SA RAUTA MADA NA LASULASU YARAYARA TU VAKA NA LIALIA
Maybe lands and continents shift over time, not rising sea levels? 🤔
Why is not one of the hundreds of large cities situated on the coast around the world not flooding at all?
Do I need to list examples? Miami is a prime example but there's plenty more, from Jakarta, to Lagos, to New York, flooding in coastal regions is becoming a major issue.
New York had to build levees to keep water out ofntheir subways as the tides rise. The Netherlands as a country will face catastrophic failure of their sea walls in this century, with their capital being several meters underwater. Sri Lanka is experiencing historic loss of land that is affecting millions.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Rocky Mountain Glaciers are shrinking. Venice is experiencing a net loss of water year over year. Clean water is becoming harder and harder to access within Africa as less drinkable rain falls.
This continents garbage is garbage, and I'm saying this as a student of Geology in the US. Stop feeding yourself and other people that line of crap. These stooges screwed all of us. The least they could do is have the balls to admit it.
I wonder just like you
@@samaeltheundying I wonder just like you
Short term memory loss Oscar or just ignorance? Indonesia is relocating its largest city and capital due to flooding. New Orleans disaster; New York has suffered flooding.
14 Well. The serpent had therefore its descendants according to Genesis 3: 15, John 8:44 and 1 John 3: 11-12. Cain is the son of the serpent. There were already snakes crawling in bush, but that serpent which slept with Eve also became a reptile after the curse. You see? It is Abel and Seth who are Adam’s children. If not, Cain, although he was twin with Abel is not Adam's son. If he were Adam’s son, and on top of that, being the first one out, by birthright, his name would be cited in Genesis 5:1-3, his name would be cited in 1 Chronicles 1: 1, his name would be cited in Luke 3:38 ... You see? [Ed: The congregation says, “Amen!”]. And a child of Adam will not speak to God like Cain in Genesis 4:9: "Am I my brother's keeper?". God had taken a human form to talk to Cain and Cain answered Him according to his seed. Cain did not know that it was God who was talking to him just as today also the children of the serpent in those churches do not know that it is the voice of God that is talking to them through Prophet Kacou Philippe. You see? Notice that it was after all this that Adam called his wife Eve according to Genesis 3:20. And why that? "... because she is the mother of all living". Adam is not the father of all living but Eve is the mother of all living, that is to say the mother of the children of God and the mother of the children of the devil. You see?
15 And today, in almost all the countries, a woman conceived from an animal, and the God who sent AIDS to judge the inhabitants of the earth is righteous. [Ed: The congregation says, “Amen!”].
Thou shalt not kill
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We've got 300 billion for submarines apparently. Can we not help with this?
Excellent idea! Why don't we give them a submarine so that they can continue to live on the sand close to the water?.
@@wiv2631 you're an ideas man
4 The second question is, "Any African logically bears an African name, how does it come then that your name is just Kacou Philippe?" From my birth to this day, I have been called by only one name: Philippe! All my life, my father and my mother and all my parents have been calling me by only one name: Philippe! A nickname was on my birth certificate but my father removed it! I have no right to change my name but God and he have the right to do so! All the children of my father are called by African names except me alone! My father, my mother, my brothers and my sisters have never called me by another name than Philippe! From my birth to this day, my name is: Philippe!
5 Well, you were expecting a radio show on last Sunday. But that meeting did not take place! We could not accept a confrontation in which we can be filmed without allowing us to film as well.
The empress , Barbados, fihi,Bagamas, indiaindonesia,
Watching this you would never know that half the population of Fiji is of East Indian descent.
What do you mean?
1/3 of current population are of Indian descents, bought by British tthrough Indentured system. 2/3 are Indigenous Fijians.
Thousands of Indians in Fiji lost their land due to non renewal of leases. Far worse than climate change from their perspective. The mataqali head kept demanding payments and gifts in exchange of promises of lease renewal. My dad met all conditions because our culture teaches us honor, respect, integrity and being true to our words. In the end, they came as a group of thugs and forcefully removed us from our house. We left with bare essentials. This was a few years ago. The house shell still remains in Tagitagi, Tavua. The land is overgrown with invasive weeds that does nothing for the soil profile.
We ended in a squatter settlement in Nadi. Dad died a year later. Mum did odd jobs as a house girl and put us through school. My sister is now a doctor and I work as an accountant. We met the head of the clan a few years ago in town. He was very apologetic about his actions and very sorry to hear about my dad’s demise. Mum said that she has forgiven him, but she will not forget the day we were forcefully evicted by thugs from the house she and dad build through their sweat,blood and tears. There are tens of thousands of other such cases in Fiji. We were lucky. Others, unfortunately are not as lucky. Shame on greedy landowners. Shame on thugs.
ABC, Australian media and western media is general only care about showing the slums and villages of Fiji.