On The Wind…

Dogs on the runway. Nukes in the sand. China at the door. Pacific’s real crises aren’t the ones the headlines keep selling.

Tuvalu’s Real Crisis Isn’t Rising Seas—It’s Dogs

World media agree: Tuvalu, population 12,000, is doomed to be the first nation swallowed by climate change. But according to one of the country’s elders, that’s not their biggest problem.

Dogs are. Or perhaps were—because hundreds of them have recently vanished.

Speaking in a Deutsche Welle (DW) Television documentary, Waffuti Faaalo, described as former member of parliament and now pastor, stressed the dog problem.

“They are a great nuisance to the airport, but here we have this danger and the passengers and the plane may crash…”

Plane and dog in Tuvalu. Deutsche Welle

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The Cracking Tomb of Enewetak

Issues drove Forum dialogues

Faaalo, like most people on the main atoll of Funafuti, lives beside the runway. As he was being interviewed sirens were sounded ordering people off the runway as one of the Fiji Airways five flights a week arrived. It took four attempts to land as dogs roamed over the runway.

“There is a need here for people here to be more practical,”