Africa-Press – Mauritius. It’s a complete mess, to be honest, as we need to use money to repair the damaged infrastructure caused by the climate crisis, instead of actually using money to protect the environment and restore these ecosystems.
It’s a vicious circle. The Indian Ocean has really been warming up [over the past 20 years]. What you see is that coral reefs around Mauritius are bleaching and dying—and when corals are dead, fish no longer stay there.
So we have an empty lagoon. Not only are these ecosystems in Mauritius being altered by the climate crisis, but they [are supposed to] help us fight the climate crisis.
For example, the corals slow down the waves when we have cyclones. [We’re also seeing] the sea level rise in Mauritius. We have villages that have been relocated because [of it].
Our coastal regions are low-lying, so that’s a problem because we have many people living in the coastal regions. These places are going to be wiped [by sea level rise], so we can expect that there will be the migration of people going inland, as Mauritius is a volcanic island.
But so much land is for agriculture and is privately owned, and we already have dense towns [so] we don’t really have the capacity for that. It’s going to be tough.
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