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Journey to the Sinking Lands

A witness to the world's first evacuation of an entire people due to climate change

This just in

February 2, 2010 at 9:00 am · Filed under BBC

I’ve just been told that the BBC are entering the Journey of a Lifetime doco, which went out on Radio 4, for this year’s One World Media awards. Very exiting stuff, but the competition will be amazing, so I’m not getting any hopes up yet. I’ll let you know if anything happens.

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Wolfy wrote @ February 3, 2010 at 5:35 am

Awesome…so when am I going to get to hear these programs of yours?

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The journey of a lifetime?

The people of the Carterets Islands, in Papua New Guinea, are the first entire people to officially be evacuated because of climate change. Their islands are being swallowed by the sea and their crops of banana, taro and breadfruit destroyed by storm surges and king tides. As the winner of the annual Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Journey of a Lifetime Award, I traveled to the islands to witness the first wave of the evacuation and to make a BBC radio documentary about what is happening. This blog tells the story of what I found.