Since 2013, the Tuvaluan Government and Taiwanese artist Vincent J.F. Huang have been using nature to their advantage by implementing mangrove plantations to help protect the Tuvalu coastline from erosion accelerated by climate ramifications.
QR code made of mangroves that can be viewed from above, when scanned it educates people on the infringing situation Tuvalu is facing
Not only do these mangroves act as a barrier preventing soil erosion, but they also educate individuals on Tuvalu's climate trajectory. Vincent's aim is to plant 7000 mangrove trees at Funafuti beach, where he will then arrange the plants into a QR code pattern with a web link to an environmental website for more relevant information.
Huang is an environmental advocate and artist, a frequent traveler to Tuvalu and official representing Tuvalu nation in United Nations Frameworks Convention on Climate Change, Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP) since 2012, and representing artist for Tuvalu Pavilion at Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2015.
The wall street journal describes the project as,
"Year on year, the impacts of climate change are hard to see: air temperatures warming by a few tenths of a degree here, sea levels rising by a few millimeters there. This poses a challenge to the artists who tackle climate change - a challenge that Taiwan's Vincent J.F. Huang address is steamrolling right over it..."
This project will only help the people of Tuvalu! Watch Huang go through the details of the project.
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