Lotomau Fiafia, 72, a community elder on Kioa Island in Fiji, stands with his grandson at the point where he remembers the shoreline used to be when he was a boy.
This was the “Readers Choice” winner in Smithsonian Magazine’s 2023 Photo Contest. The Huli is an indigenous Melanesian tribe in the Hela Province of Papua New Guinea. There are more than 250,000 Huli, making…