Coconut plantation in Philippines The coconut is one of the most important fruit of the tropical islands, especially there where no water is present as it can save lives. Coconuts are very resilient, which means that they can be grown in a wide variety of soils. They do require a…
Like pandemic is not enough, and few of the island countries in South Pacific experienced from dangerous cyclone as well! From April 1 was formed category 5 tropical cyclone named Harold. It affected Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga. Its full power lasted for about 10 days, then it got…
Yes, as this title says, even coronavirus can make danger to people without even affecting them. People have been reported to be stranded on their boats for weeks, even months due to countries closing their borders and ports during pandemic. As reported here https://www.insider.com/coronavirus-port-closures-singapore-wong-tetchoong-yacht-rescued-fiji-navy-2020-5 man from Singapore was stranded in…
Plastic trash on beaches. The worst is on Henderson Island (in Pitcern Islands, South Pacific) where sea currents eject plastic at the coast. In 2017, scientists wrote in the report that there were an estimated 38 million plastic garbage on the island and weighing about 18 tons. They say that…
Unfortunately, even the remote isolated tropics are not without problems. People used to massively cut down jungles, vegetation, polluting the islands. Especially when the colonialists came, the problems increased. The colonialists brought rats with their ships. To the rats, the tropical climate suited them, so they quickly swarmed, destroying domestic…
Solving problems is often a lengthy process, and it takes a lot of effort to see some results. Environmental movements, agencies and states have invested a lot of effort and money to protect nature in the islands, protect atolls, reefs and the aquatic world as much as possible. Through laws…
In this category we discuss about islands in some videos, documentaries, news reports and other media. We also review movies located in tropical islands as well. And this region is exception because of movies, as whole blog is educational in nature, this category is for comment and critic purpose in…
This is Scientific literature category. Here we write about some online books, researches and similar, regarding tropical islands (for example, a book about atolls, research about pollution on islands, ecosystem etc...). And when possible, we post links if anyone wants to see and download.
In this category we write about ecological problems and their solutions in the islands (some direct examples of ecological disasters, some direct examples of solving, healing etc...)
In this category we put tropical regions where the islands are located for better organization (for example Pacific, Caribbean, Africa, etc.. where island countries and islands themselves can be found)
