TOGORU — The sea has already swallowed the village graveyard in Togoru, Fiji, and long-time resident Lavenia McGoon is dreading the day it claims her house.
She piles old rubber car tyres under the coconut trees that line the beachfront, hoping this makeshift seawall will at least buy some time.
About 200 people were once buried in the Togoru graveyard, but Ms McGoon says most of the remains have since been moved inland."Relocation to me at this age, it's a bit too... sickening," she says.Fiji has been meticulously preparing for the day it needs to relocate coastal villages because of climate change.
Other villages, such as Veivatuloa, are exhausting their options for adaptation before abandoning their homes.The village's stilted houses sit in rows facing the water, while decaying wooden planks bridge the pools of seawater collecting on the ground at low tide.Veivatuloa has been lobbying the Fijian government to strengthen its old seawall, which is now regularly breached by waves.
Local guide and subsistence fisherman Abaitia Rosivulavula ekes out a living selling his catch to the restaurants around Pacific Harbour, a tourist hotspot dotted with luxury resorts.
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