CRYING OUT FOR HELP

The Carteret Islands and their 3,000 residents in the Pacific Ocean face extinction by submersion

Within our lifetime the islands will be first to disappear under water due to rising sea levels

An ongoing relocation program to their neighbouring island of Bougainville is painfully slow only 80 people have relocated

Your help and interest in the plight of these islanders is vital

Can you help them today?

$ 8,500 will build a home and a new future for a family which will transform their lives from simple fisher folk to cacao planters.

The Carteret Islands were “named” after they were discovered in 1767 by a distant cousin of Ned's, Captain Philip Carteret RN (1733-1796). Philip was the captain of HMS Swallow and was on his second circumnavigation of the globe. He was the Seigneur of Trinity in Jersey and became a Rear-Admiral, dying in Southampton.

The group of 7 islands include Han, Huene and lolassa, They are coral reefs standing some 1.5 metres above the current sea level.

The islanders are Halia speaking Melanesian people who came to the islands some 400 years ago from the neighbouring Baku Island. Before that Polynesians have inhabited the islands for some 1,000 years. There are two native groups, the Nakaripa and Naboen. The societies are matriarchal.

They have survived by living on taros, greens, breadfruit, coconuts and fishing. A supply boat comes once or twice a year from Bougainville, bringing basic food supplies, namely rice.

The islands rest on the world’s largest tectonic plate – the Pacific Plate. King Tides prevail in December.

The Carteret islanders are the World’s first environmental refugees
Monies raised will go directly to Tuele Peisa, an NGO lead by Ursula Rakova who is in close contact with Ned.

There are various videos on You Tube about the islanders plight.