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==Some Tawi-Tawi islands sinking, lawmaker says== | |||
*Source: http://www.tawitawi.net/some-tawi-tawi-islands-sinking-lawmaker-says/ | |||
*NOVEMBER 29, 2011 | |||
:By tawitawi.net | |||
MANILA, Philippines – Tawi-Tawi Rep. Nur Jaafar on Monday called open courtesy to falling islands in his home district since of meridian change. | |||
In a payoff speech, Jaafar talked about a sum of an comment his bureau instituted to countenance reports that a islands of Tawi-Tawi are sinking. | |||
The assement showed that a island-province has been falling for years, with several circuitously islands that were on 2008 maps now missing. | |||
According to Jaafar, Bancuruan Island, that used to be 5 hectares is now down to 3 hectares, while some-more than 50 families on Turtle Island have been relocated to aloft belligerent due to critical erosion and rising sea level. | |||
The comment also finished a following discoveries: | |||
- Manuc-Manucan Island is now totally submerged | |||
- Mapun Central School is flooded | |||
- Only 5 hectares of Sitangkai are left from a strange area of some-more than 8 hectares. Its graveyards have been mislaid to a sea. | |||
- Flooring of stilt houses in coastal communities are now next sea level | |||
- Storm surges broken seashore communities in South Ubian, Tandubas, and Bongao | |||
- Coral and seaweed splotch in waters off Tawi-Tawi | |||
Jaafar pronounced a commentary endorse a inclusion of a Philippines in a World Risk Index as third among tip 10 countries many exposed to disaster risk and healthy hazards. | |||
He claimed that range is during a core of a world’s biggest coral triangle and is also many exposed to meridian change. | |||
Jaafar pronounced a other effects of meridian change presumably embody a detriment of a land area where immature sea turtles lay and induce their eggs, a genocide of corals, and a detriment of people’s homes since of sea turn rise. | |||
The investigate on Tawi-Tawi was finished by a Climate Change Commission, a University of a Philippines Philippine Marine Institute, a Initiative for Tawi-Tawi Area Development Foundation, Conservation International, and a agriculture, environment, and scholarship and record departments. | |||
==Marines rescue 13 probable victims of tellurian trafficking in Tawi-Tawi== | ==Marines rescue 13 probable victims of tellurian trafficking in Tawi-Tawi== | ||
*Source: http://www.tawitawi.net/marines-rescue-13-possible-victims-of-human-trafficking-in-tawi-tawi/ | *Source: http://www.tawitawi.net/marines-rescue-13-possible-victims-of-human-trafficking-in-tawi-tawi/ | ||
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