This includes SDG14: Life below water; a GEF SGP funded project; and a grant from the Australian High Commission, Wellington, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Oceanic plastics are an overwhelming problem.
Hakono Hararanga documentary on how oceanic plastics impact our subsistence way of life at Tongareva Atoll in remote Polynesia. Huge thanks to the Global Env...
We are not a cash economy, but live on fish, shellfish and coconuts. Climate change is now affecting them all. So the continual presence of plasticWe are not a cash economy, but live on fish, shellfish and coconuts. Climate change is now affecting them all. So the continual presence of plastic in our food supply is a health concern. As plastics slowly break down the constituent chemicals enter the food web and bioaccumuate too. Toxicants are passed from mother to infant during breast-feeding ~ which is the norm here. More ...