New Caledonia

In November 2013, the Living Oceans Foundation will investigate coral reefs in New Caledonia. This is part of our global coral reef exploration and will continue to use our coral reef survey method used in the South Pacific in 2013.

This study is being conducted in collaboration with the Ile-de-France Institute (IRD) and the Florida National Coral Reef Research Institute. Perform coral reevaluation and create a GIS database which records satellite image, habitat map, exploration map, photograph cross section, coral reef crowd, coral reef data.

This research is mainly focused on Il de Pins (Pins and Neulka) and Cook Reef. We will also conduct a scientific study of coral reefs in the recent protected Entre-Kateo Islands in northern New Caledonia, such as Perotas, Porteirs, Surprise, Melite, Gilbert, Huon.

This coral reef survey provides new information on coral reef situation and trends in New Caledonia and provides comparative information both inside and outside the ocean protected area, including baseline information for new marine protected areas established in early 2013.

The information we collect will also provide detailed information on existing threats to coral reefs and coral reef resources, as well as valuable information on past impacts and past interference recovery patterns.

In the history of New Caledonia, various groups settled in the Melanesian islands were called Lapita. They arrived in the archipelago, and today it is often called New Caledonia and the Royalty Islands around 1500 BC. Lapita is a highly skilled navigator and agricultural expert with influence over a wide area of ​​the Pacific. Polynesians arrived from around the 11th century and mixed with the population of the archipelago. Europeans saw New Caledonia and the Royalty Islands for the first time in the late 18th century. British explorer James Cook watched Grande Tray in 1774 and named New Caledonia. Caledonia is the Latin name of Scotland. During the same voyage he also named the Island of the North of New Caledonia the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), behind the North Scotland islands.

Admiral Febvrier Despointes officially occupied New Caledonia on 24th September 1853. On the other hand, the French port (Nouméa) was established on June 25, 1854. In the following years, dozens of free settlers settled on the west coast, but New Caledonia became a criminal colony, transportation ended in the 1860s and 1897, about 22,000 criminals and political prisoners were sent It was. New Caledonia was murdered. At the beginning of the reign of Napoleon III, the existence of France in Senegal was confined to the trading center of Goalie Island, thin strips of coast, St. Louis, and several inland trade places. The economy is mainly based on slave trade and was forced by domestic rulers until France abolished its colonial slavery in 1848. In 1854, Napoleon III appointed an enterprising French official, Lewis Faydbe, to rule. Then expand the colony and make it the beginning of the modern economy

Producers of Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia and Samoa in the 1860s called for workers to encourage long-term guaranteed labor transactions called "blackbirds". At the peak of labor trade, over half of the adult male population of some islands is working abroad. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, 40 years of labor began in the sugarcane field in Queensland, Australia. This includes compulsory recruitment and contract enslavement of 62,000 southern islanders. These workers are mainly from Melanesia - mainly from Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - a small number from Polynesia and Micronesia such as Samoa, the Gilbert Islands (later known as Kiribati) and the Ellis Islands (later known) Tuvalu). They are collectively called "Canakas".