In the eastern Caribbean island of Barbuda, life is about preserving land and maintaining a close, ecologically-sound community.
Barbudans have kept mostly to themselves, concerned less with growing tourism than with working to preserve their land and maintain a tight-knit, ecologically-sound community of about 1,500 people.
But fishing “the Barbudan way” is threatened by the potential shift in accordance with profitability, absent the best interests of the people. The link between people, land, resources, lifestyle and culture is based on living within the resources of the community.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/08/a-tight-knit-island-nation-hopes-to-rebuild-while-preserving-the-barbudan-way
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