Fiji's Great Sea Reef: Saving Fiji Seafood Basket

Fiji's Great Sea Reef (GSR) locally known as 'Cakaulevu' or 'Bai kei Viti,'remains one of the most productive and biologically diverse reef systems in the Southern hemisphere. But despite its uniqueness and diversity, it remains the most used with its social, cultural,economic and environmental value largely ignored.

The GSR feeds up to 80 percent of Fiji's population with estimates indicating that the reef systems contributes between FJD 12-16million annually to Fiji's economy.The short documentary highlights a communities interdependence on the reef against the rising tide of challenges brought on by climate change through ocean warming and acidification, coral bleaching and sea level rise and made made challenges of pollution,over fishing and loss of habitat in the face of economic development.

But all is not lost as communities and individuals are strengthened through sheer determination to apply their traditional knowledge, further strengthened by science and research to safeguard and protect the natural resource that is home and livelihood.