@pacificppleforest.bsky.socialℹ️ For #PacificPeopleForest, nature conservation raises a fundamental question: how did the current ecosystems of the Pacific islands come to be as they are?
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@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🌿 A Homecoming Rooted in Heritage
ℹ️ After more than 70 years away from the #MarianaIslands, the latte stones from #Rota have been welcomed home, marking an important moment for the region’s cultural heritage.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🌧️ "A brewing #Pacific storm could become one of the planet’s strongest this year"; this is how @washingtonpost.com reports that a new super #typhoon (which would be the 3rd one this year) is approaching the #MarianaIslands.
👉 We will continue to update.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social💡Read our new blog post 'Building an Integrated Information System for Research (Part I)' 🔗 acortar.link/3Bp8rJ
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@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🌿 We’re pleased to share that the “#Botany and #Ethnobotany of the #MarianaIslands” project, carried out at @naturalis.bsky.social as part of #PacificPeopleForest, now has a dedicated page on the Naturalis website 👉 lnkd.in/emE2kdVH
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@pacificppleforest.bsky.social@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🎶Did you know that #PacificPeopleForest has its own soundtrack?
It’s called ‘Teteto Days’ and was created by Cesar Parcero-Oubiña, one of our senior researchers.
You can listen to it here👉 acortar.link/KiDu7z
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@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🌍 #WorldHabitatDay | #Island ecosystems are also our #habitat
🗓️ For #PacificPeopleForest, this date offers an opportunity to broaden our perspective on the concept of habitat. On an island such as #Rota, the human habitat cannot be understood in isolation from the ecosystems that sustain it.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🛖On the north coast of Rota lies Mochong, one of the island’s most important archaeological sites and one of the best-preserved Latte settlements (#MarianaIslands).
ℹ️The site covers some 12 hectares of limestone terraces by the sea and preserves more than 50 latte complexes.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🎼 International Music Day
👉 At #PacificPeopleForest, we believe that to understand the history of #Rota and the #MarianaIslands, we must also listen to the voices of their communities.
🎶 #JohnnySablan holds a special place in this legacy; he is one of the pioneers of contemporary #Chamorro music.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🇲🇵 Archaeological excavation is one of the lines of research that form part of the scientific background work leading up to #PacificPeopleForest.
ℹ️ Since 2022, the work carried out in #Rota has made it possible to explore, document and preserve part of its archaeological heritage.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🌿 #WorldEnvironmentalHealthDay aims to raise awareness of the importance of a healthy environment for the well-being of societies and of the environmental challenges that affect our health.
ℹ️ At #PacificPeopleForest, we explore this connection from a historical perspective.
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@pacificppleforest.bsky.social📍At the southern tip of #Rota lies #Taipingot, a limestone formation rising approximately 143 metres above sea level.
ℹ️For #PacificPeopleForest, Taipingot is a particularly significant site, very well preserved, that shows a different aspect of the #Chamorro life.
📸By @aberron.bsky.social for #PPF
@pacificppleforest.bsky.socialℹ️Between 2022 and 2025 continuous archaeological research have led to progress in the documentation and preservation of the heritage of #Rota.
🔎The results expanded our understanding of the distribution of Rota’s archaeological heritage.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social✈️Conducting fieldwork on a remote island presents a significant logistical challenge.
ℹ️ These logistical constraints are a daily reality of archaeological fieldwork. But they also raise another important question: the environmental cost of doing research in such remote places.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social📸🌿 These images show Timothy Utteridge working in the field during the June 2026 campaign, observing, documenting and studying the #plants that later featured in his publications.
ℹ️ A brief behind-the-scenes look at the fieldwork that forms part of our project.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social💧 The work of #PacificPeopleForest: archaeobotanical flotation
🌱 In #archaeology, a significant proportion of the information is reconstructed from vegetal remains that are barely visible to the naked eye.
👌To recover them we use, amongst other techniques, archaeobotanical #flotation.
@pacificppleforest.bsky.social👉 At #PacificPeopleForest, we study how communities on the #Pacificislands have used and transformed their environments over time. Through #archaeology, #history and #botany, we investigate food production practices and their relationship with changes in the island.
📸 #Taro.
