Oceans Watch - sailors restoring sustainability to the South Pacific

10:26 PM Mon 1 Nov 2010 GMT

'Aneityum reef' .

The peoples of the South Pacific existed for many hundreds, sometimes thousands of years in harmony with nature. The onset of Western civilisation, directly and indirectly, has changed all that and brought problems of rising disease, pollution, degradation of their aquatic environment and rising sea levels. For the last few years a dedicated group of sailors called Oceans Watch(not to be confused with Ocean Watch, the Sailors for the Sea offshoot) is attempting to restore sustainability to these precious islands. Here Tom Barnfield reports on some of their progress during this year, carried out on one of the organisation's donated ...

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by Tom Barnfield