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RedTide Summit 2020 Postponed Due to Coronavirus

May 1, 2020 by April Ingham

RedTide logo by Mark Gauti, T’Sou-ke Nation

In 2018 PPP was part of a remarkable project that saw the birth of the RedTide International Indigenous Climate Action Summit. This was hosted by Toitoi Manawa Trust in May 2018 in Te Kaha, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Attending that first RedTide was youth activist Kalilah Rampanen from the Nuu-chah-nulth Territory of Ahousaht on Vancouver Island, British Columbia which became the designated location and host for RedTide 2020. Kalilah was named youth Chair of RedTide 2020, working diligently with her family with the expressed permission and support of her Hereditary Chief Maquinna, towards hosting the next bi-annual summit in July 2020.

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that all travel is now restricted for the foreseeable future, as is entry into this small Indigenous community. It has been a difficult but necessary decision to postpone the event. The Summit team is now looking at the possibility of hosting virtual programming this summer, and the Summit on Vancouver Island next year.

If COVID teaches us anything, it is that we are indeed interconnected and must work together in solidarity to responsibly halt the spread and successfully bring this pandemic to an end.

Filed Under: Biosphere, Climate Change, First Nations, Knowledge Exchange, Solidarity, South Pacific Tagged With: RedTide

Niue Named the World’s First Dark Sky Nation

April 30, 2020 by Pacific Peoples' Partnership

Stargazing is now a hot topic for visitors to Niue. Photo courtesy of Niue Tourism

Prepared by Alison Gardner, Editor, Pasifik Currents

“Darkness is not something to fear,” declares Peter Dockrill in an announcement that appeared on the Science Alert website on 12 March 2020. “In a world increasingly plagued by the menace of unnatural light, darkness is an ideal to strive for – a threatened state we need to restore and protect wherever we can.”

This core belief lies at the heart of the International Dark Sky Association, a conservation non-profit charged with preserving the naturally dark night-time environment. As part of its ongoing mission, the organisation has just announced an important world-first, declaring that the tiny South Pacific nation of Niue is the first country to be formally accredited as an International Dark Sky Place.

“The people of Niue are understandably proud and delighted to receive such an important acknowledgement from the International Dark-Sky Association,” says Niue Tourism CEO, Felicity Bollen. “To be the first whole country to become a dark sky nation is a massive accomplishment for a small Pacific nation with a population of just over 1,600.”

The island does not have to do much to set up stargazing spots for visitors. Bollen says that established whale-watching viewing sites throughout the island can easily double as stargazing spots for visitors and that guided astro-tours will be bookable by trained Niuean community members. Niue Tourism even has a webpage dedicated to Stargazing.

The island nation of Niue is in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,400 km northeast of New Zealand, east of Tonga, south of Samoa and west of the Cook Islands. To read more about the rich tapestry of starry highlights viewable from Niue’s latitude, and stargazing tours planned for 2021, check out these references:

 

“The World’s First Dark Sky Nation”, Afar Magazine, 10 March 2020

“The Tiny Island of Niue Has Been Declared The World’s First ‘Dark Sky Nation’”, Science Alert, 12 March 2020

 

Filed Under: Biosphere, South Pacific Tagged With: Dark Sky, Stargazing

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