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[32] [33] Due to the dependency of Fiji's rural population on natural resources and small-scale farming, Fijian agriculture is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events, rainfall and temperature variability and sea level rise resulting from climate change, all of which erode Fiji's long-term food security prospects. [34]
A recent global remote sensing analysis suggested that there were 438 km 2 of tidal flats in Fiji, making it the 49th ranked country in terms of tidal flat area. [3] Elevation extremes. Lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 km (0 mi) Highest point: Mount Tomanivi 1,324 metres (4,344 ft) Natural resources
Natural history of Fiji (3 C) O. Outdoor structures in Fiji (1 C) W. ... Pages in category "Environment of Fiji" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 ...
The story of Fiji Water, as detailed in a startling investigative piece in Mother Jones magazine this month, seems familiar. Leafing through the story, I found myself trying to remember where I'd ...
Yasa dealt a devastating blow to Fiji on Thursday when it made landfall as a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone with winds of 240 km/h (150 mph), according to the Fiji Meteorological Service. As ...
The Fiji tropical moist forests is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in Fiji and Wallis and Futuna. It covers the windward sides of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu , Fiji's largest islands, as well as the smaller Fijian islands and the three islands that make up Wallis and Futuna , an overseas territory of France .
Natural resources include timber, fish, gold, copper, offshore oil, and hydropower. Fiji experienced a period of rapid growth in the 1960s and 1970s but stagnated in the 1980s. The coups of 1987 caused further contraction. [114]
The natural vegetation of the ecoregion is tropical dry forest. The most widespread dry forest community was characterized Dacrydium nidulum and Fagraea gracilipes, with Myristica castaneifolia, Dysoxylum richii, Parinari insularum, Intsia bijuga, Syzygium spp., Aleurites moluccana, Ficus theophrastoides, the conifers Podocarpus neriifolius and Gymnostoma vitiense, the cycad Cycas seemannii ...