Protecting Cultural Rights in the South Pacific Islands: Using UNESCO and Marine Protected Areas to Plan for Climate Change

"Imagine an island coast filled with palm trees and mangrove forests, birds chirping as you look to the clear blue oceans and coral reefs that
span beyond where the eye can see. A perfect paradise, is it not? Imagine the native peoples of that island. Perhaps they believe that the
souls of every departed person spanning back to the beginning of time wander this very coast at night, while the living continue the tradition of worshipping ancient gods inhabiting the coral reefs surrounding the area. Now imagine that island as scientists predict it will be thirty to fifty years from now: the people gone and the island completely submerged beneath the seas."