New Caledonia Research Articles

New Caledonia – a conservation imperative for an ancient land

When Myers (1988) published his first overview of threatened hotspots for conservation of biodiversity world-wide, most of the 10 areas he selected (for example, Madagascar, the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, the eastern slope of the Andes) were already known to be critically important. However, one of his hotspots, the small island territory of New Caledonia in the South Pacific, was an unexpected inclusion in the global priority list. Although well known to botanists as a living museum of unique and ancient plants, and to marine biologists as the site of the world's second largest coastal barrier reef, New Caledonia had been largely overlooked by the international conservation community. None the less, it ranks as one of the world's most endangered biodiversity hotspots and requires an immediate and substantial commitment of conservation resources.

Hierarchy and reciprocity in New Caledonia: An historical ethnography

(1994). Hierarchy and reciprocity in New Caledonia: An historical ethnography. History and Anthropology: Vol. 7, No. 1-4, pp. 168-193.

Plants from New Caledonia: Constituents of Boronella pancheri

Plants from New Caledonia: Constituents of Boronella pancheri

A 10-year incidence survey of respiratory cancer and a case-control study within a cohort of nickel mining and refining workers in New Caledonia.

The incidence of lung, pleural, nasal, larynx, and pharynx cancer in relation to work in the nickel mining and refining industry was studied from 1978 to 1987 in the male population of the French territory of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. The results showed no greater risk in the population of nickel workers than in the general male population. The incidence of respiratory cancer in New Caledonia was found to be comparable to that of industrialized countries, except for pleural cancer for which there was an excess risk in New Caledonia. A case-control study within the cohort of nickel industry workers comprised 80 lung cancer, 12 larynx cancer, 20 pharynx cancer cases, and 298 controls, and took account of 18 substances to which workers were exposed, five of them nickel compounds. None of the substances, or any other occupational variable, was shown to increase the risk of respiratory cancer, except for cancer of the larynx in relation to level and duration of exposure to dust and engine exhaust fumes on mining sites (odds ratios ranged from five to 5.4 and were significant). These results provide no evidence that exposures specific to the nickel industry in New Caledonia increase the risk of respiratory cancer. This might be due to the involvement of less airborne nickel than the amount observed in positive studies elsewhere. The high incidence of respiratory cancer in New Caledonia, compared with other South Pacific islands, might be attributable to an environmental risk connected with the presence of mineral fibers in the geologic strata, as well as to tobacco and alcohol consumption levels similar to those prevailing in France.

Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation of the Lizards of New Caledonia

Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation of the Lizards of New Caledonia

The Uneasy Peace: New Caledonia's Matignon Accords at Mid-Term

FOR MOST OF THE 1980s, bitter conflicts punctuated by open violence characterized the politics of the small French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Over forty people were killed and property damage ran into millions of dollars. But since mid-1988, more peaceful conditions have mainly been present. The turning point came on 26 June 1988, when Michel Rocard, the socialist prime minister of France, signed agreements with the representatives of the two main political blocs in New Caledonia, the Melanesian nationalists and their loyalist opponents. These agreements, along with others signed later that year, were endorsed by a national French referendum held in November 1988. The various agreements and associated legislation, which are generally known as the Matignon Accords,' have provided the framework for an interim settlement, planned to conclude in 1998 with a referendum on New Caledonia's constitutional future. With this settlement at its halfway mark, it is timely to examine developments so far and the responses to them. An examination is especially apt because 1993 was the international Year of Indigenous Peoples, and because uncertainties over the settlement during the latter half of its projected span increased when the Socialist government lost office in the

The Protection of the Ethnic Autonomy of Kanaks in New Caledonia

THE PROTECTION OF THE ETHNIC AUTONOMY OF KANAKS IN NEW CALEDONIA Michael A. Ntumyt I. INTRODUCTION The law regarding the treatment of minorities and ethnic groups has become an important component in the comprehensive system that protects international human rights. This law recognises the right of ethnic groups in a multiracial state to retain and develop their language and culture. This concept of autonomy breaks through traditional notions about the state and ethnic groups by allowing collective rights to be vested in an ethnic group in the same way as they can be vested in the individual.I The sources of this growing area of law are derived principally from various international treaties that seek to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms. The most important of these treaties are the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, (including its Protocols) and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Polit- ical Rights. Both these documents have been ratified and acceded to by France. 2 Article 14 of the European Convention and article 2 of the International Covenant guarantee a number of individual as well as collective rights and freedoms, such as freedom from dis- crimination on the basis of sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Other relevant human rights treaties include the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the 1961 European Social t Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Papua New Guinea. I wish to express my gratitude to Gilles Lucazeau for providing me with French materials on the droit particulier, and Agnes Montanari and Ian Fraser for translating them. 1. For a detailed discussion of this concept, see Otto Kimminich, The Organiza- tion of Multinational States, 37 LAW AND STATE 7, 16 (1988). 2. France ratified the European Convention on 3 May 1974. M.J. BOWMAN & DAVID J. HARRIS, MULTILATERAL TREATIES: INDEX AND CURRENT STATUS (London Butterworths 1984). France signified its accession to the International Cove- nant on Civil and Political Rights on 4 November 1980. Id at 304.

New Caledonia, 1988–91

New Caledonia, 1988–91

Winning and losing?Reflections on the war of 1878–79 in new caledoni

equivalence and restraint; in colonial contexts, fighting included, Melanesians acted in creative and meaningful ways which often contradicted European as sumptions of external imposition and reflex reaction; and both contemporary texts and histories tend to anticipate the colonial 'conquest' of New Caledonia, overstate French military advantage, underestimate the significance of Melan esian agency and generally denigrate Melanesian performance.1 Doubt properly arises about the appropriateness of the categorical antitheses 'winning'/'losing', typical of outcome-oriented military histories: 'the outcome approach to mil itary history, like the time-honoured but outmoded causes and results approach to general history', commented John Keegan, 'pre-judges the terms in which the narrative can be cast'.2

‘Noumea no good. noumea no pay’: ‘New hebridean’ indentured labour in new caledonia, 1865–1925

‘Noumea no good. noumea no pay’: ‘New hebridean’ indentured labour in new caledonia, 1865–1925

Printed in Great Britain Mandobius regalis gen. et sp.n. (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida: Lichomolgidae) associated with the coral Pectinia lactuca in New Caledonia

A new genus, Mandobius gen.n, containing a new species, M. regalis sp.n., is associated with the coral Pectinia lactuca in New Caledonia. The new copepod differs conspicuously from the allied genus Paramolgus in having only one seta on the first segment of the first antenna, in the formula 1,11,3 for the third segment of the endopodite of leg 1, and in the formula 11,1,5 for the third segment of the exopodite of leg 4.

The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Caledonian ants of the genus Meranoplus Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae).

Twenty six named, valid, worker-based Australian 'Meranoplus' species are recognised, and one from New Caledonia. The queen-based 'M. dichrous' Forel, 'M. doddi' Santschi and 'M. hospes' Forel are designated 'species inquirendae'. New synonymies include: 'M. puryi' Forel = 'M. puryi curvispina' Forel and 'M. armatus' Fr. Smith = 'M. rugifrons' Emery. The subspecies 'M. aureolus doddi' Santschi, 'M. aureolus linae' Santschi, 'M. diversus duyfkeni' Forel, 'M. diversus oxleyi' Forel, 'M. diversus unicolor' Forel, 'M. hirsutus minor' Forel, 'M. hirsutus rugosus' Crawley, and 'M. mars ajax' Forel are raised to species. The Melanesian 'M. armatus' Fr. Smith is recorded for the first time from Australia.

New Caledonia: Essays in Nationalism and Dependency.

New Caledonia: Essays in Nationalism and Dependency.

Agreement on the future of New Caledonia

Agreement on the future of New Caledonia

Self-Determination and the Crisis in New Caledonia: The Search for a Legitimate Self

Self-Determination and the Crisis in New Caledonia: The Search for a Legitimate Self

THE IMPACT OF COLONIAL POLICY ON THE CHURCHES OF TAHITI AND NEW CALEDONIA

THE IMPACT OF COLONIAL POLICY ON THE CHURCHES OF TAHITI AND NEW CALEDONIA

Geographical distribution of respiratory cancer in New Caledonia.

All cases of primary respiratory cancers diagnosed between 1/1/78 and 12/31/81 in the French territory of New Caledonia, where nickel has been mined and smelted for more than one hundred years, were recorded. The successive addresses of each case were noted. The distribution of stays between mining zones and others was compared to an expected distribution based on censuses. A significant excess was observed in mining zones, both for the number of stays and for the number of person-years. The excess was observed for primary lung cancer only. The data seem to indicate that people with lung cancer have spent a larger part of their life in a mining zone. The reason for that phenomenon cannot, however, be assessed clearly. This could be due to the geographical environment, i.e., the presence of nickel and asbestos in the soil of some parts of the territory; the observed relationship could also be due, in part, to the effects of urbanization leading to increased tobacco consumption.

Eclogites and Associated Albite-Epidote-Garnet Paragneisses between Yambe and Cape Colnett, New Caledonia

Eclogites and Associated Albite-Epidote-Garnet Paragneisses between Yambe and Cape Colnett, New Caledonia

TOWARDS KANAKY? POLITICS AND LAND IN NEW CALEDONIA

OceaniaVolume 57, Issue 4 p. 294-303 Review Article TOWARDS KANAKY? POLITICS AND LAND IN NEW CALEDONIA John Connell, John Connell University of SydneySearch for more papers by this author John Connell, John Connell University of SydneySearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1987 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4461.1987.tb02223.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume57, Issue4June 1987Pages 294-303 RelatedInformation

THE ANTHOCEROTAE COLLECTED BY DRS. Z. IWATSUKI AND N. KITAGAWA IN NEW CALEDONIA AND FIJI

THE ANTHOCEROTAE COLLECTED BY DRS. Z. IWATSUKI AND N. KITAGAWA IN NEW CALEDONIA AND FIJI