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After 10 years, Isle de Jean Charles residents will soon have a new place to call homeSource: WWNO Date: 02/17/2022 The Isle de Jean resettlement program, a construction project spurred by extreme land loss that has been in the works for six years, is expected to finally wrap up this spring and move in its residents. |
Building stronger: Island resettlement's homes designed to help weather stormsSource: Houma Today Date: 07/30/2021 Residents relocating from an eroding island off Terrebonne Parish will move into homes built and designed to help weather hurricanes. |
Tribal leaders raise ‘serious concerns’ about plans to turn their shrinking Louisiana island home into a ‘sportsman’s paradise’Source: Nation of Change Date: 07/26/2021 After a long state and federal push to relocate the Indigenous people of Isle de Jean Charles from their threatened homeland, new recreational development around the island risks further colonial displacement. |
Our debt to places that are sinkingSource: The Boston Globe Date: 07/18/2021 US policy doesn’t properly recognize slow-moving disasters like climate change — while marginalized communities face the rising waters. |
To Flee, or to Stay Until the End and Be Swallowed by the SeaSource: Inside Climate News Date: 07/18/2021 On the Isle de Jean Charles in the bayous of Louisiana, the nation’s first federally funded climate migrants have a decision to make as their ancestral island disappears. |
Native American tribes express concern about development on Isle de Jean CharlesSource: Houma Today Date: 07/16/2021 Native American leaders are questioning why Terrebonne Parish officials are considering new sites for fishing camps on Isle de Jean Charles when residents are being encouraged to leave the island as it erodes into the Gulf of Mexico. |
The Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe is losing homes to erosion on the Gulf CoastSource: Sun Herald Date: 07/12/2021 Chris Brunet points to the stumps of dead trees throughout his yard. “This whole place looked completely different when I was growing up,” he says. “There’s not much left now.” |
How ‘managed retreat’ can help communities facing sea-level riseSource: Cyprus Mail Date: 07/10/2021 In 2016, the residents of Isle de Jean Charles, a small strip of land off the coast of Louisiana, received a $48-million grant to relocate their entire community. Faced with sea-level rise and rapid erosion, many made the decision to seek higher ground, even though the process was a heart-wrenching one. |
Louisiana ‘climate refugees’ lose faith in relocation projectSource: The Washington Times Date: 07/08/2021 State's nearly $50 million plan has yet to relocate any Isle de Jean Charles residents |