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| A very healthy forest |
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The
purpose of the project is the “Improving Agro-forestry systems to enhance Food
Security and Build Resilience to Climate Change in Tuvalu”
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| Site cleaning |
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| Site Cleaning Completed |
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| Few tree crops in the nursery |
The
first site in Funafuti was established in May 2014 from a site used by the
Banana Project which is now completed these past few years. Through the years,
the NAPA project used the site as a nursery for their “plant resilient to
climate change” plantlets. The site was excavated and fence was put up in
recommendation of the GCCA project objectives and to secure the NAPA plantlet
from theft. The GCCA boys managed to complete 1 week for the fence post to be
positioned and another week for stretching the fence wire and cleaning of the
project site.Throughout the two busy weeks, the project technical officer travel
to the northern islands to collect tree crops for nursery here on the first project
site. The reason for nursing these tree crops so that the cuttings can be
distributed amongst the communities for replanting, thus securing Food Security
purpose in the country. These tree crops include Pandanus cuttings, Breadfruit
and Wild Figs cuttings. On the site, there are two types of crops to be nurse,
tree crops and senile trees for coast line guard
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| Few trees for coastline protection |
Concerning other
influence of climate change, many areas in Funafuti are vulnerable to the
effects of climate change especially the coast line, and that will be another
priority for this project. An affected site closed to the Pacific Energy Plant
needed to plant trees on the coast line to help prevent soil runoff and to
protect coast line against soil erosion. Trees including “Cordia Subcordata”, wild senile Pandanus trees, “barringtonia asiatica”, “Topurnefortia argentea”, “Callophyllum inophyllum”, “Scaevola traccada” and other senile
tree will be the answer to help guard the coast line from the effects of sea
currents.
