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Point I :
Just 50m. in front of the church,
in the village square, Vao, is
Point I. It is staffed by a
well-travelled Kunie, Marie-Jeanne,
who, in addition to her own native
language, speaks English, French,
Italian, Czech and Polish.
Office
hours are from
8-11.30am and 2-4pm, Monday to
Friday and Saturday am.
Tel.
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Edition
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OCTOBER
2018 |
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HILARY
ROOTS (or Cleo)
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ISLE OF PINES - a treasure trove
of sea-life
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Beautiful
sea-creatures
- tiny shell-fish a maximum of 5
centimeters long, have recently
been brought to light by a
research team from the renown
National Museum of Natural History
in Paris, exploring the waters
surrounding Isle of Pines.
The
international
team which worked in the area in
2016, presented its findings to
the island’s High Chief and
notables in September 2018. Its
expeditions, under the heading
« The Planet Re-visited in
New Caledonia », are a 21st
century version of naturalists’
expeditions carried out a
century or two ago. Their
mission is to discover species
hitherto unknown, thanks to new
techniques of exploration and
analysis. Leaders of the
expedition to Isle of Pines,
Professor Philippe Bouchet, and
expeditions manager, Pascale
Joannot, emphasize that New
Caledonia is a fount of
bio-diversity, given its high
proportion of endemic species in
flora and fauna, including
species yet to be discovered.
Their message is that this
treasure trove deserves to be
studied and needs to be
preserved.
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A
small volute, 5 cm long, Lyria
kuniene,
discovered by Professor
Bouchet in 1979, but only seen
and photographed alive for the
first time in 2016. Its
habitat - waters, 300m. deep,
just beyond Isle of Pines.
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These
shell-fish,
also miniatures, are new species
the expedition found in waters
around Isle of Pines. Some are
yet to be named.
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