Islands on the Front Line
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Regina Lepping travels around her homeland – the Solomon Islands – to discover how this remote Commonwealth country in the Pacific is on the front line of climate change. Sea levels here are rising three times faster than the global average, some islands have already been lost and people have had to relocate their homes.
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| 0:00.0 | From the BBC World Service, welcome to the latest edition of the documentary podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Every week we bring you a range of stories from our presenters and reporters across the world. |
| 0:11.0 | Please do rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave a comment. Let us know what you think. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to the Solomon Islands. I'm Regina Lepping and I've lived all my life in this Commonwealth Pacific country, |
| 0:26.2 | north east of Australia and east of Papua New Guinea. |
| 0:29.4 | A chain of over 900 islands, there are around 70 different languages spoken here, |
| 0:35.1 | and we're proud of our culture, our traditions and our rich ocean worlds. |
| 0:40.6 | When I was a little kid in the late 1990s, the country experienced a violent civil conflict, |
| 0:46.4 | rival ethnic groups fought over land and resources. |
| 0:50.3 | The conflict ended in 2003 and peacekeeping forces left the country last year. |
| 0:56.0 | But we're now facing another threat. |
| 0:59.0 | This is islands on the front line on the BBC World Service. |
| 1:04.0 | We know that the weather is not behaving as it used to be. |
| 1:08.0 | Dry seasons are longer, winds are more stronger. |
| 1:12.0 | Before, Solomon Islands have wet season and dry seasons, |
| 1:18.0 | but it has been very unpredictable now. |
| 1:21.0 | The sea level is rising. The tide goes up very high. All the building |
| 1:26.5 | collapse with the water and with all this coast torn apart and |
| 1:31.1 | ticking away and we've got all the routes exposed and it makes people really scared. |
| 1:37.0 | They just wonder what's happening. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm quite aware of some of these issues myself. A few years ago we had to move a family |
| 1:46.0 | home back from the sea, dismantle it and rebuild it further inland. Sea levels are |
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