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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Kirsty Needham and Loren Elliott

Flooded Pacific Ocean communities want polluters to pay for relocation from ancestral lands

Reuters

Boats moor next to living rooms on Fiji’s Serua island, where water breaches the seawall at high tide, flooding into the village. Planks of wood stretch between some homes, forming makeshift walkways as saltwater inundates gardens.

Village elders always believed they would die here on prized land where their chiefs are buried.

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