# Fiji islanders brave rising seas to protect their ‘US$100 million views’

As the sun sets over Fiji’s tiny Serua Island, its climate-threatened inhabitants soak in one of the reasons they have rejected attempts to relocate their village – the “US$100 million views”. The island looks like a utopia from the mainland, two steep palm-covered knolls sandwiching its low-lying centre, flanked by coral reefs and rich fishing grounds. But it is on the island itself that the risk from rising seas becomes clearer, with a concrete sea wall providing the only defence against waves...

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3372264/fiji-islanders-brave-rising-seas-protect-their-us100-million-views

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Created: 2026-10-29T04:42:10.692072+00:00

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