Four years after the tsunami, Indonesia dresses its wounds and its corals
By Denis Delbecq • December 29th, 2008 in 15:32 · Category: Actuality
On December 26th, 2004, a terrible tsunami swept the Indian ocean, killing more than two hundred and twenty thousand persons, and destroying the underwater funds near the affected coasts. Four years later, the reconstruction of the swept Indonesian regions is almost finished. According to the international Federation of the Red Cross, 97 % destroyed houses would have rebuilt or are on the way to the being.
And as a good news never arrives the only, the reefs of corals of the country seem to have started their re-establishment. A good news announced last week by the Society for the conservation of wild life (TOILETS), the American non-governmental organisation which follows about sixty sites divided on eight hundred kilometres of Indonesian coasts.
The region of Aceh, in Indonesia, had suffered the worst outrages linked to the tsunami. Not less than 166 000 persons were killed there, on 225 000 victims of the vague giantesses in the Indian Ocean. Under the water, the coral reefs — already harmed by destructive practices of peach had been devastated, causing fears for future.
But the realisation of threats to the future of the peach north of Sumatra seems to have been efficient. TOILETS relay that the usage of dynamite or of cyanide was left. The local going populations to the point of participating in programmes of reintroduction of corals. Programmes which notably accepted important international financings.
This effort is important all the more as reefs in good health play, as mangrove swamps, a role of protection of coasts against the effects of tsunamis. Because the Indian Ocean is not sheltered by a new disaster. Since December, 2004, researches were performed to try to find the relics of others vague murderers. In Thailand, not less than three major events belong product for 2800 years. In Aceh, the researchers found traces of several tsunamis happened for one thousand two hundred years (1). However, no mention is made in the historical writings of the region. Sign that this memory got lost.
Last Saturday, Indonesia committed one-exercise-old of prevention to test its device of alert to the tsunami put in operation this autumn. More than fifteen thousand volunteers had to participate in it.
(1) Nature, edition of October 30th, 2008
Picture: The card of the seism of 2004 © Programme of the United Nations for environment
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