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This page will lead to a set of albums documenting my work in the Pacific Islands in the 1970s and extending to 1985 in some cases.
As the Regional Ecological Adviser with the South Pacific Commission (SPC), a regional intergovernmental organization of all the Pacific Island countries and territories founded in 1947, I lived in Noumea, New Caledonia, from 1974 to 1985 and traveled through all the island countries. I prepared the slide programme reproduced here to illustrate the problems threatening the future of the islands and their peoples, in the hope that they could change direction in time. Eventually, I organized and launched the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme in 1982 to give the countries the means to address their own environmental problems.
In 1978, the Bougainville Copper Mine was the largest in the world, but despite greenwashing its environmental and social impact, it fomented unrest and finally revolution, closing the mine. This is a record of my visit with a regional SPC training course in environmental planning and management in 1978.
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Samoa and American Samoa present an interesting contrast of two colonial histories and political attachments impacting the same Samoan culture and environment. starting with Samoa 1970s in 1970-71.
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Apia, Samoa, 1970; Pago Pago, American Samoa 1970