International Day of Planet or Mother Earth Day is an annual event on April 22. Its aim is to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was held first time on April 22, 1970, and now it includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network)…
GREAT NEWS! Since we started a blog, we have been working a lot, to bring word about environmental protection on tropical islands... We presented a lot of islands so far, and, logically, some of those articles are visible on search engines such as Google and weaker, but still decent ones…
As we already wrote an article about cyclone Seroja, which killed over 150 people (last data shows over 180) https://tropicalislands.net/over-150-people-died-in-cyclone-seroja/ it moved to the west coast of Australia as well. On April 11, 2021, a category 3 storm made landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns and…
If you want to escape corona and lockups and have plenty of money, there is an atoll for you in the middle of the South Pacific. We just made a post about it https://tropicalislands.net/anuanurunga-atoll/ Atoll has been recently on the market. We regular mortals can only dream about it. Nice…
Anuanurunga atoll is an uninhabited atoll in French Polynesia. It is part of the Duke of Gloucester Islands, a subgroup of the Tuamotu group. Anuanurunga's nearest neighbor is Nukutepipi, which is located about 22 km to the southeast. Anuanurunga is ring-shaped, measuring approximately 2,8kmx2,4km, total area of 7 km2. Its…
Rarely, but it happens! Good news for nature in Fiji islands. The Company which caused environmental damage was found guilty in court. Three years ago, in 2018, Freesoul Real Estate, a Chinese-linked company, began work on Malolo Island, (around 25 km west from Nadi International Airport), with plans to build…
According to The Guardian we have good news. Five years after the disastrous cyclone Winston (which heavily damaged and destroyed reefs and land, caused strong winds up to 300km/h), the reefs are alive again, with plenty of fish within them. Wildlife Conservation Society recently led an expedition to observe the progress…
On 8 April 2021, after a sustained increase of seismic activities over few days, an alert was declared and an evacuation issued. An explosive eruption occurred at 8:41 AM local time on the following day, with an ash plume reaching 10 000 m and flying eastward towards the Atlantic ocean.…
