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YAP: PROTECTING RESOURCES By Scott Radway HAGÃ TÃA, Guam (January 212, 2002 - Pacific Daily News/PINA Nius Online) -Yap environmentalist Margie Cushing Falanruw has a dream. Falanruw believes that Yap State can master its traditional methods of farming and fishing to produce enough for its people and an export economy and still maintain its natural resources. That way, the director of the Yap Institute of Natural Science said, the island will avoid many of the pitfalls of westernization and over-development like some of the ones that have riddled neighboring Guam. What works on continents hasn t worked on small islands, said Falanruw, a resident of arguably the most traditional islands in Micronesia. ....
PROJECT TO PROTECT GUAM CORAL Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/08/2001 - 00:00 By Scott Radway Pacific Daily News HAGÃ TÃA, Guam (August 7, 2001 – Pacific Daily News) -As oceanographer Eric Wolanski, clad in scuba gear, descended into Fouha Bay in Umatac, he noticed something seriously wrong: He couldn t hear anything but his breathing. The reef makes no sound anymore, said Wolanski, a researcher from the Australian Institute of Marine Science. When a reef is healthy, fish and shrimp are plentiful and when they eat, their mouths make a snapping sound, Wolanski said. There should have been crackling, he said. Instead, there was silence, because the reef is far from healthy, suffering in part from years of sediment flowing into the bay, preventing coral from spawning and suffocating some of the existing coral. ....