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(7 SLIDE VIEW PHOTOS DOUBLE CLICK ON THE ABOVE TO START AND ENJOY)
RODRIGUES A TINY SOUTHERN ISLAND FORMED AFTER VOLCANIC ERUPTION ABOUT 10 MILLIONS YEARS AGO AND SITUATED IN THE NORTH EAST OF NEIGHBORING MAURITIAN ISLAND IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
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IN THE NORTH AT A VILLAGE CALLED ROSEAUX CLOSE TO PORT MATHURIN TOWN
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| "Roseaux peak" in the North guarded by an Endemic adult Pandanus heterocarpus commonly named as "Vacoas ".It uses as anti-erosion agent, provides shade,acts as wind break and provides high quality fibres for Handicraft which is one of the Rodriguan Economic Pillars. Those igneous stones reveal the island's volcanic nature....
THE BEAUTY OF NATURE:
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Sun set beams observed (January 2016) from a center village of the 19 km long Rodrigues Island which population's, nowadays amounted to about 40,000 - excluding some more than 15,000 individuals, emigrated to Australia, Canada, France, England among others but however ,the majority of them are established in Mauritius(mauritius.net/index.php) .....a Republic State of which Rodrigues became one of its Dependencies, after world war 2 in 1968, year of Mauritian Independence.
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| Ten years old son enjoying school holidays in a dry-summer water course December 2015 |
BLOGGER'S QUOTE:
We belong to nature and we borrow the
world ,mainly planet Earth, from our
children.....so keep on united to ensure
our kind survival AND PERSISTENCE OF
OUR EXISTENCE,,,,,,,,THE HUMAN AND
LIVING THING SURVIVAL;'''''''',,,,,,,,,,
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TREES, SHRUBS, GRASSES,UNDERGROWTH
VEGETATION FOR SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
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ESCARPMENT OF A RIVER OYSTER-BAY AT A PLACE CALLED PAVE LA BONTE |
Rivers are vital natural water courses which need
to be managed with high care. Catchment areas
comprise Forests areas which maintain both soil and
water conservation and provide suitable habitat for
various Biodiversity.On both sides of the river banks,
Catchment areas normally extend up to mountain or
hill peaks and the sloping areas fringing them need
to be permanently maintained under forest covers
and are more effective when such covers are
composed of multi-storeyed canopy.
Water is life essential which means more than
important.Water shortage is not that such alarming
issue,rather its management is questionable. No
deaths in Rodrigues have ever been related to thirst -
due to lack of water....truth is that a considerable
percentage of the eight thousand Rodriguan
families/households are under the poverty line.
Human rightly , each citizen should be provided with
basic needs and governmental actions should be
taken to fairly ensure that each and every family be
supported instead of assisted with a minimum of a
water tank as the habit of rainwater collection is in-
borne amongst the highly amicable society.
Pacifically, we need to be united to ensure water
conservation and communities could start by
removing alluvial soil from river floors rendering such
a life-giving liquid available for all and at the same
time recuperate wash away top soil due to both high
landscape reliefs and during frequent short heavy
rain falls over the various high landscape reliefs of
such a paradise place. Banning of plastic bags world-
widely modeled such a tiny 116 squared kilometer
island forming the Mascarenes Island with closer Mauritius
island and relatively more distant Reunion island,,,,,,
STRONG WAVES INDICATE THE CLOSEST
EASTERN REEFS AT TROU D'ARGEN- AN EMBLEMATIC
VISITORS' PLACE OF CHOICE
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"Trou D'Argen" World wide class Natural aquarium-like beach in the East of Rodrigues Socially peaceful |
STEP TOGETHER FORWARD PRUDENTLY.....Nature minded,,,,,,,,,,,
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| Hydrangea macrophylla " Altona" |
