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Erosion

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UNDP Goodwill Ambassador and GOT star urges Maldivians to “get engaged”

By Maldives Times 6 min read

UNDP’s Goodwill Ambassador and Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau at the VIP lounge in Velana International Airport in the Maldives. PHOTO: FARAH AHMED/MIHAARU Last week, the news of Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau being in the Maldives had a large proportion of the population who religiously follow the show buzzing about his presence […]

Volunteers of the OneFuvahmulah movement pictured during a beach clean-up. PHOTO/ONEFUVAHMULAH

Campaign for coastal protection takes Fuvahmulah by storm

By Maldives Times 2 min read

Volunteers of the OneFuvahmulah movement pictured during a beach clean-up. PHOTO/ONEFUVAHMULAH A special campaign has been launched in the southern island of Fuvahmulah to combat erosion and strengthen coastal protection. Organised by the “OneFuvahmulah” movement, the Save Fuvahmulah campaign aims to speed up the plans to construct revetments on the eastern coast of the single-atoll […]