'The island is being eaten': how climate change is threatening the Torres Strait

In Boigu, part of Australia but just six kilometres from Papua New Guinea, roads are being washed into the sea

Torres Strait residents face being forced from their homes by climate change, as their islands are lost to rising seas.

On Boigu Island, the most northerly inhabited island in Australia, just six kilometres from Papua New Guinea, the community’s cemetery faces inundation and roads are being washed into the sea. A seawall installed to protect the community is already failing.

Every year I have moved my shed back from the beach another few metres.

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We have been advocating for years but it just does not seem to get enough attention.

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