Tonga

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Tonga
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The impact of global warming to Tonga

• The sea level is rising 15.1 mm in one year at
  Tongas coast line. (2001)
• Scientist says if global warming goes on, after
  ten years, the sea level will rise 30.5mm per
  year and over 40mm per year in 20 years time

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Effect on agriculture

• Agriculture makes up 38 percent of Tongas GDP.
• The rise of sea level will mainly affect the
  south part of Tonga where the land is low and
  that part is agricultural area.
• The main Agricultural products are squash,
  coconuts, bananas, vanilla beans, cocoa, coffee,
  ginger and black pepper which are for export.

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Map of Tonga
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Effects on agriculture

• Tongas income from agricultural industry comes
  mainly from exporting those food products
• Agricultural exports makes up two-thirds of
  Tongas total exports.
• If Tonga loses this part of land, 60 percent of
  the export income will be taken away.

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Effect on marine life

• Also there will be a serious problem in marine
  life.
• The second most important product for export is
  fish.
• The rise of water temperature will cause the
  fish to leave Tongas economic zone and go
  towards south to find a suitable temperature for
  them.
• Fishermen will lose their jobs if the fish leaves
  from Tongas economic zone.

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Effect on tourism

• Tourism is one of the industries that sustains
  Tonga's economy.
• Tonga is popular holiday resort during summer
  time especially for Asians.
• Tourist enjoys seeing coral, diving, fishing,
  swimming and all the water adventures around
  Tonga.
• All the events that are mentioned above will be
  affected by global warming.

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Effect on tourism

• Especially Coral reef will be affected by the
  rise of water temperature.
• If the coral are destroyed, Tonga will lose the
  special feature which attract tourists.
• The loss of tourists will be a heavy blow to
  Tongas economy.

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To prevent the effects to agricultural area

• To prevent the effect to agricultural area, Tonga
  is planning to build breakwaters to stop the
  crops getting drown in future.
• Unfortunately it requires a big amount of money
  to build those facilities.
• Tonga is going to appeal to developed countries
  to get economic aid.

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To prevent the rise of water temperature

• Actually Tonga does not have any
  means to prevent the rise of water
  temperature.
• It depends on the developed countries which is
  causing the global warming to stop the rise of
  water temperature.

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Done by Yoshia Kashima (representative of Tonga)

• Our country will disappear in the next few
  centuries (University of Queensland research) if
  the Global warming goes on !!!!!!!!!!