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With rising global temperatures and seas set to drown scores of homes on the US East Coast’s historic Tangier Island, some residents are frustrated that hundreds of millions are being spent saving nearby islands inhabited solely by wildlife.
Competition for funding such restoration projects is pitting a growing number of U.S. jurisdictions against one another, as the fight intensifies for scarce resources to protect people and land from the devastating impacts of climate change https://news.trust.org/packages/ipcc-climate-vulnerability-and-adaptation. Poplar Island is in Maryland, where officials are planning a similar project to build up 2,000 acres of largely wildlife habitat on James and Barren Islands - also in the Chesapeake Bay - using dredged material from shipping channels.