Pacificans

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18/10/2020

Hotel California in maori!

08/07/2020

09/06/2020

Some of our cultural diversity in Oceania. Made us smile😀

Anyone care to expand on the list to cover all the cultural diversity in Oceania? 😁👏🏾
📷📸 Jose L S.S

18/12/2019

French Polynesia wants to open itself to the rest of the English-speaking Pacific Ocean. First step: a dictionary that will be made into a free website and mobile app. Maeva!

The government of French Polynesia published the first trilingual dictionary of the local Tahitian language. 17 000 Polynesian words, both old and new, are translated into English and French as a b…

06/12/2019

A fun new initiative to reduce waste!

How about eating your coffee cup after you finished your beverage, instead of throwing one more garbage away… You don’t like the idea? But what if… your cup was a vanilla-flavored…

29/08/2019

In-depth account of the current massive protests for human rights and self determination in West Papua, with the historical contest to understand how it got there and the plight of the Papuan people.

In the fight to finally end the subjugation of Pacific people by colonizing powers, West Papua is the last active front. And the fight for freedom by the native Papuan people kicked into higher gea…

29/08/2019

A plea for a plastic free Pacific by our Tahitian contributor Taema. Can we get rid of this miracle material that ended-up becoming the scourge of our ocean?

Nowadays, plastic is everywhere. Originally designed as a miracle material allowing, for example, to store food in healthier and cheaper conditions than ever before. It is now becoming one of the p…

09/07/2019

Tourists in Palau have to sign a pledge, in their passports, to protect the environment of their host country. A very effective tool!

Meet Jennifer Koskelin. Together with her team, she originated the implementation of a National Marine Sanctuary that covers over 80% of the maritime territory of the small Micronesian country of P…

30/06/2019

In Hawaiian, Papahānaumokuākea translates to "where life originates from". This is the name that was given to Hawaii’s North-West large marine reserve.

« Islands Voices » is a group of cultural and environmental referents from the civil society of the Pacific region, gathered to strengthen international cooperation on Ocean conservation. Thanks to…

08/03/2019

Should the Cook Islands change their name for a Polynesian one?

What is in a name… Take the case of the Cook Islands. This Polynesian nation is an archipelago of 15 islands stuck between French Polynesia, Niue and American Samoa. It is inhabited by only 1…

01/12/2018

South Pacific is a nice place to live, indeed!

Earth, water, air, fire, and mana: Tahiti has it all.

30/09/2018

Which bird from New Zealand is your favorite ?

It is time for Bird of the Year 2018! Voting opens at 9 am on Monday 1 October and closes at 5 pm on Sunday 14 October. New Zealand’s unique native birds are in crisis. A third are at risk of becom…

28/09/2018

The Tahiti Women’s Forum will celebrate its come back next month. Extended to two days, the 16th and 17th of October, it will address responsible business. As everyone knows, the Pacific islands ar…

07/07/2018

SYDNEY - With ocean levels rising in recent decades due to the warming planet, one of the most direct effects has been on the residents of low-lying Pacific nations where coasts have been subsiding and some islands have disappeared.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

06/07/2018

Pacificans rejoice! A great positive disruption is coming. Actually, it has already began.

The decentralization revolution, like a domino effect, began at the informational stage (see part 1), spreaded to the energy sector (see part 2), and is now triggering a new emerging trend: the dec…

12/06/2018

Happy King Kamehameha Day to everyone in Hawaii !

01/06/2018

Learning Samoan?

For our non Samoans or non speaking Samoans.

From head to toe learn the Samoan meaning to each part of your body. 😁 Happy Samoan Language Week SMS! 🙂

09/01/2018

Zita is a great sport champion, and she also decided to fight against injustice.

Zita Martel is a Pacific renaissance woman whose colourful, bold and courageous life serves as an inspiration to women and men in her native Samoa and beyond. In 2001, she became the first and only…

16/11/2017

Super inspirational! Check it out!

Permaculture, eco-construction, recyclage... Revivez le concentré des différents projets écologiques que nous avons eu la chance de découvrir et promouvoir l...

01/11/2017

Portrait of one of six Fisheries Management Advisers at the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency.

At 35, Cook Islander Pamela Maru is part of a small but growing handful of Pacific women leading -and shaping- the future of fisheries in the world’s largest ocean. She is one of six Fisheries Mana…

01/11/2017

Good news for scattered islanders all over the Pacific. Full energy, food and water autonomy technologies are on their way... No, wait ! They're already there !

Last week, we explored the revolutionary change blockchain technology was bringing to the world, and even more to scattered populations like the islanders of the Pacific Ocean, or the coasters of t…

29/10/2017

In 2015, as Daisy prepared to run in the Marshall Islands’ national elections, a law passed requiring public service candidates to take 13 months unpaid leave prior to the elections... She remained undeterred and took to driving a taxi for income during this time, making her the first and only woman taxi driver on Majuro. And she won the election, become a Senator!

Marshall Islands Senator Daisy Alik-Momotaro has spent a number of decades working in community development as well as advocating for the rights of women, youth and children. In 1984, she participa…

28/10/2017

Do you think Maui the best hero of all of the world mythology?

How does Maui heroic deeds hold the comparison to other mythological heroes such as the Greek/Roman semi-god Hercules or the African spider god Anansi? This great video by the educational YouTube c…

27/10/2017

Rejoice, inhabitants of the Ocean lands, rising technologies are empowering us and reducing our isolation, despite our geographical situation.

After the latest industrial (19th-20th century) and information revolutions (The Internet 20th-21th century), the next one: the decentralization revolution, has already begun, boosted by the rise o…

19/10/2017

This animated video, with input from Hawaiian and Hokulea experts, explains the remarkable techniques used by traditional Polynesian navigators.

This excellent video my TedEx explains how traditional Polynesian canoe found their way across the huge Pacific Ocean two millennia before the introduction of modern compas and maps:

18/10/2017

People eating perfectly healthy fish got ill, and nobody understood why until Mireille and a few other scientific pioneers discovered an innocent looking algae...

French Polynesian scientist Mireille Chinain has been spearheading regional research efforts on Ciguatera poisoning, the foodborne disease related to the consumption of subtropical and tropical mar…

18/10/2017

They met in highschool, and vowed to change their country. They are still keeping at it!

In the early 80s, a group of eight Solomon Island women graduated with a Diploma of Secondary Education at the University of Papua New Guinea Goroka Teachers’ College. In the decades since, the wom…

29/09/2017

A blue whale, 30 meters long, under a pair-oar near the North Coast of New Caledonia. Photo by Uğur Eroğul.

Une baleine bleue de 30 mètres de longueur pour 70 tonnes juste en dessous d'un pair-oar d'aviron, c'est le plus grand mammifère vivant de notre époque.
Merci à Uğur Eroğul pour ce cliché.

27/09/2017

Using her collection of 1,500 different taro crops, new varieties of taro tolerant to leaf blight disease were identified in Samoa and Papua New Guinea