[ISL] Five #islands links: St. Vincent, Orkneys, Hong Kong, Kiribati, Manus

[rfmcdonald]

• The Inter Press Service reports on efforts to keep the fisheries of St. Vincent active, despite climate change.


• This Guardian report on the sheer determination of the librarians of the Orkneys to service their community, even in the face of giant waves, is inspiring.


• I am decidedly impressed by the scope of the Hong Kong plan to build a vast new artificial island. The Guardian reports.


• This Inter Press Service report about how the stigma of leprosy in Kiribati prevents treatment is sad, and recounts a familiar phenomenon.


• That Behrouz Boochani was able to write an award-winning book on Whatsapp while imprisoned in the Australian camp on Manus island is an inspiring story that should never have been. CBC's As It Happens reports.