country:solomon islands

Paradise Lost: Solomon Islands under threat from logging | Global Witness
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Our new investigation, using detailed research, satellite imagery, drone photography and trade data, conclusively shows that tropical timber across the Solomon Islands is being harvested on an unsustainable scale, and that much of the activity driving this environmental destruction is at high risk of being illegal.

We mapped all the logging roads in the country and found that they cover a distance twice the length of China’s Yangtze River, despite the Solomon Islands being 338 times smaller than China.

Seven maps that explain logging in the Solomon Islands
▻https://www.maphubs.com/single-post/2018/11/06/Seven-maps-that-explain-logging-in-the-Solomon-Islands

#bois #forêt #déforestation #cartographie #îles_Solomon

’Disease of poverty’: #Malaria ’back with a vengeance’ in Australia’s closest neighbours
▻https://www.smh.com.au/national/disease-of-poverty-malaria-back-with-a-vengeance-in-australia-s-closest-neig

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In 2016 there were an estimated 216 million malaria cases globally.

Papua New Guinea recorded a staggering 400 per cent surge in malaria between 2010 and 2016, WHO figures show, with an estimated 1.4 million malaria cases and 3000 deaths in 2016.

Solomon Islands recorded a 40 per cent rise in cases of the disease transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes infected with a #plasmodium parasite. The rise was partly due to inadequate access to services and improved surveillance, according to WHO.

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“Malaria can often be the victim of its own success,” Professor Crabb said of the “disease of poverty”.

“As you make progress, health departments tend to focus on other health issues and as soon as you do that with malaria, it comes back with a vengeance.”

The rise in prevalence coincides with economic upheaval in PNG and significant cuts to public health expenditure. PNG is also grappling with a polio outbreak – 18 years after the country was declared polio-free.

“It doesn’t take long for malaria to come back if you take your foot off the public health accelerator,” Professor Crabb said.

#paludisme

Which Comes First, Big Cities or Big Gods? - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/-which-comes-first-big-cities-or-big-gods

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Warriors among the Kwara’ae, a collection of tribal communities indigenous to the Solomon Islands, sacrificed pigs before battle. The tradition granted the combatants, so the belief went, aid from heroic ancestral spirits—like the mighty A’orama, a fierce fighter in Kwara’ae folklore. For every man who prepared to shed blood, a hog met its end.1 Any non-superstitious observer might regard this ritual as a costly habit. Why give offerings when one can eat them instead? This puzzle is not unique to the Kwara’ae. Why pray? Or erect and attend churches, mosques, temples? Or observe holidays and fast? All that time and energy could be spent more practically. But maybe these acts are actually extremely practical. Shared beliefs and rites may serve an important social function: promoting (...)

First animated map ever? La première carte animée ? | (e)space & fiction

▻https://spacefiction.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/first-animated-map-ever

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Is this the first animated map ever ? At least it is one of the first ones. It was created for a 1918 docudrama entitled Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific (Martin E. Johnson, 1918). An animated black line traces the journey of director Martin Johnson and his wife Osa from the New Hebrides Islands to the Solomon Islands in the South pacific.

Est-ce la première carte animée ? Vraisemblablement une des toutes premières. Elle a été créée pour un « docudrama » de 1918 intitulé Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific (Martin E. Johnson, 1918). Une ligne noire animée représente le voyage du réalisateur Martin Johnson et de sa femme Osa depuis les Nouvelles Hébrides jusqu’aux îles Salomon dans le Pacifique Sud.

#cartographie_animée

20 minutes - « L’Etat de Palestine » admis à Interpol
27 septembre 2017 11:22
▻http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/monde/story/27141636

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Interpol a approuvé mercredi l’adhésion de « l’Etat de Palestine », a indiqué l’organisation internationale policière, malgré la forte opposition d’Israël

« L’Etat de Palestine et les îles Salomon sont désormais pays membres », a annoncé Interpol sur le réseau social Twitter, en marge de son assemblée générale organisée dans la capitale chinoise Pékin.

New member countries State of Palestine and Solomon Islands bring INTERPOL’s membership to 192. #INTERPOLGApic.twitter.com/9LaggaQ6op– INTERPOL (@INTERPOL_HQ) 27 septembre 2017

#Palestine

The Secrets of the Wave Pilots
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/magazine/the-secrets-of-the-wave-pilots.html

As late as the 1960s, Western scholars still insisted that indigenous methods of navigating by stars, sun, wind and waves were not nearly accurate enough, nor indigenous boats seaworthy enough, to have reached these tiny habitats on purpose.

Archaeological and DNA evidence (and replica voyages) have since proved that the Pacific islands were settled intentionally — by descendants of the first humans to venture out of sight of land, beginning some 60,000 years ago, from Southeast Asia to the Solomon Islands.

#navigation #Polynésiens #mémoire #hippocampe

Global Zika update : Incidence, microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome | Outbreak News Today
▻http://outbreaknewstoday.com/global-zika-update-incidence-microcephaly-and-guillain-barre-synd

The World Health Organization (WHO) released their Zika Situation Report Friday, which is chock full of interesting information, ranging from the incidence of Zika virus to microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) data.

Between 2015 and 2016, 33 countries have reported autochthonous transmission- Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Curaçao, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Maldives, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Tonga, United States Virgin Islands, Vanuatu and Venezuela.
Brazil has reported by far the most cases, in fact, the outbreak got so large they stopped counting cases. Best estimates from Brazil health officials say there has been [between] 497,593 and 1,482,701 cases of Zika virus since the outbreak began.

Dernier état de la situation de l’OMS, ici (actuellement, au 5/02/16)
▻http://www.who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/situation-report/en

Which Comes First, Big Cities or Big Gods? - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/which-comes-first-big-cities-or-big-gods

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Warriors among the Kwara’ae, a collection of tribal communities indigenous to the Solomon Islands, sacrificed pigs before battle. The tradition granted the combatants, so the belief went, aid from heroic ancestral spirits—like the mighty A’orama, a fierce fighter in Kwara’ae folklore. For every man who prepared to shed blood, a hog met its end.1A warrior from the Soloman Islands.Wikicommons Any non-superstitious observer might regard this ritual as a costly habit. Why give offerings when one can eat them instead? This puzzle is not unique to the Kwara’ae. Why pray? Or erect and attend churches, mosques, temples? Or observe holidays and fast? All that time and energy could be spent more practically. But maybe these acts are actually extremely practical. Shared beliefs and rites may serve (...)

India reaches into the South Pacific to counter China - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/27/modi-a27.html

India reaches into the South Pacific to counter China
By John Braddock
27 August 2015

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted leaders from 14 Pacific Island countries at the second Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) in Jaipur, India on August 21. The Pacific Islands present were Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Eleven of the tiny island nations were represented by their heads of state or government, and the remaining three by foreign ministers.

#inde #chine #Pacifique