Help celebrate UNEP World Earth Day - take a moment to think about your environment, and in particular try to adopt a few simple gestures (conserve, reuse, recycle) that conserve energy or just make the planet a better place to live in!
Here in Rurutu we have our own little battle going on with the local authorities - the Works department are putting down a cement road in our little community, and are mercilessly hacking the vegetation at the side of the road as well as illegally extracting sand from the beach to make the cement, which will eventually impact our shorelines as well as making ugly holes in the beach,
the local district has also been 'clearing' overhanging vegetation along the side of the road leading between our village and the next.
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....while I can understand that they need wood for a lime oven, there are more respectful ways of obtaining it, aside from being an eyesore it is extremely irresponsible to cut all these beautiful old trees, as this will certainly increase soil erosion and runoff into the lagoon.....
Rurutu is an island in French Polynesia (Tahiti), Austral Islands, it's been my home since September 2007. I run a guesthouse here with my husband, who is from Rurutu. It's a long way for a Welsh-girl to have come, but I'm enjoying my new life here in Rurutu.....
Our island is a tiny speck in the middle of the Pacific ocean, ~560 km south of Tahiti (22.5degS, 151.3degW), with nothing much between us and the Antarctic. There are ~2200 inhabitants. We're best known for the humpback whales that breed off our fringing reef, between July and October. The island is an ideal sheltered spot for females and their newborn calves to rest and grow, before they make the long journey back to their Antarctic feeding grounds. The whales hang-out just outside the reef, and you can see them easily from the shore - it's pretty magical!
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