I believe that Papua New Guinea is not as wealthy and technologically advanced as New Zealand and Australia because is not as rich in resources as Australia and New Zealand in the world even though their both located in the same region because of the geographical location. Papua New Guinea landscapes has left it's mark on this nation many times. It has more than 600 islands it ranges form sea level and it is a subject to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. So with so many natural disasters in their hands. With whether disasters in their hands their lives are in danger. In guns, germs and steel it could be about the whether there Jared Diamond said that their crops rot easily so it is harder feed the country.
How they handle national economy is one of the things why their not as wealthy. Even though their rich in resources like their neighbors Australia and New Zealand they have very little money because they have to share with the other 600 hundred islands. This would be hard because it is hard to send things that they found and it is even harder to communicate with them since they have 850 types different languages coming in with different cultures with a population of nearly 6 million. This makes it hard to have any sense of unity within the community so the politics becomes messy and at very high levels. Even tough their rich in resources they give it to get paid for building roads, bridges and other things so they do not have enough money for other things needed. These resources are hard to dig up because they have to travel many places just to find resources for money.
It is not easy to go places in Papua New Guinea. It is hard for people because they live in dense forests, near swamps and some people live isolated in mountains. Papua New Guinea has a few roads no railroads, no links the capital city to the provincial city. People have to walk to town or arrive water or air. So it's quite hard to trade with other countries. That is why Papua New Guinea is not as wealthy as New Zealand and Australia.
Bibliography:
http://www.chronicpoverty.org/uploads/publication_files/CPR2%20Background%20Papers%20Cammack%20New.pdf
Would some countries fall apart if their were no mangroves in this world? Why would our country fall apart if mangrove are existent? Well scientists have been discovering still, unravelling the mystery of this question. If we preserve and plant saplings of mangroves would how does it make a difference? The most main reason of why do we plant mangroves in Malaysia.
The main reason is that mangroves would stop villages and countries to usually fight or stop tsunamis from hitting there. If there was not any mangroves tree more lives would be lost and tsunamis will hit more often then now. Since there are loads of mangroves this has reduced the force of an incoming tsunami. The force of within which the waves hit the shoreline depends defiantly on the currents and other physical factors. In Sri Lanka, first 500 meters of coastline has been mangroves, mangroves or even a cash crop, with a rule of humans habitation, there maybe a little or no human causalities on this land. The risk remains for the tsunami, but not at extreme measures. However, due to the natural vegetation of the mangroves, it makes sense to preserve these. We should preserve them not just for tsunamis also for the islands' rapidly degrading eco-system. In Langkawi this was the time when mangroves saved there country.
In Langkawi, after the tsunami people have been thinking how was the tsunami prevented? People say that after planting mangrove trees, tsunamis that came affected way fewer people. How does this happen? Many tsunamis were tamed by the coral reefs before hitting the coast, where the dense of the red mangrove tree absorb. Since the mangroves has long branches that goes under the sand, below the surface of the ocean, which actually absorb the shock of the tsunami. Behind the red mangrove trees there are a second layer, the black mangrove trees, which are taller that helps the sea to slow down. Every since they started to plant more mangroves less tsunamis came so they decided to put it everywhere in Malaysia. So now fewer people are getting killed by tsunamis.
Mangrove really helped our world and even today. The Selangor park helps us do more for us and the people around us. That is why we should preserve them today and help us plant so we can block away tsunami. Planting a sapling even helps the marine live in the sea. Thousands of miles fully covered with marine, covered of mangroves forests, which helps protect the coastline from erosion, absorbing the carbon dioxide giving the breeding ground to fish and crustaceans, on the local population depends on their live hood. With this fragile eco-system which ecologist recommended for a long time.
Bibliography
http://www.wildasia.org/main.cfm/library/Mangroves_Tsunami_Buffer
http://www.langkawi-beaches.com/langkawi-tsunami.html
