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Pacific Islands - Coggle Diagram

- - - - threatening tonga, tuvalu, the marshall islands
      - five reef islands in the remote solomon islands
      - pollution of gound water
      - lack of fresh water
      - coastal erosion
        
        lack of agrucultural space
        
        Rapid population growth
      - polluted lagoon
- - - - problem : some want to dig, for deep sea mining (local pop demonstrating)
        
        Papue New Guinea
        
        ok Tedi Mine (2 billion tones of waste in the rivers)
        
        less and less agriculture
        
        what for
        
        gold
        
        copper
        
        phosphate
        
        nickel
      - problem : logging
        
        deforestation
        
        subsistence crop
- - - - Rivalry between indigenous Fijian and Indian comunities (came as indentured servants)
      - 1987 first coup to overthrow Indian majority government
      - 1999 Mahendra Chaudhry is elected Fiji's first ethnic Indian prim minister but is overthrown a year later
      - 2006 fourth military coup, relations with Western countries deteriorate
      - 2009 suspendend from PIF
      - 2012 Fiji Media Industry Development Authority controles what is published by the media industry
      - 2014 former military leader Frank Bainimarama is elected prime minister 8 years after seizing power in a coup
    - - Fomer Australian Colony
      - border issues with Solomon Islands and Indonesia
      - Illegal fishing
      - Inter-group fighting
    - - Tension between the people of Guadalcanal and Malaita (2 largest islands erupted in 1998)
        
        Guadalcanal people resnted the inlue,ce of settlement from other islands
        
        The settlers, mostlry from nearby Malaita, comparatively greater economic opportunities
        
        Undermining national institutions and coherence
        
        this situation persisted for more than four years
      - Ramsi (Australia and New Zealand (the regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands)
        
        April 2003 > solomon Islands Prime Minister wrote to request Australian assistance
        
        creating the conditions necessary for a return to stability, peace and growing economy