00:02House by house, street by street, the fishing community of Ayatoru is seeing its village slowly being swallowed by the
00:09waves.
00:10For some residents, the encroaching Atlantic Ocean has forced them to move several times.
00:17Families whose homes are destroyed are constantly rebuilding further inland, only for the water to strike again.
00:25I don't have anywhere to go. Since my father brought me here as a child, Ayatoru has become my home
00:32ever since he came to settle here.
00:36The houses I inherited from my parents have collapsed, my father's house has collapsed, and my mother's house has collapsed.
00:44Yet I do not know where else to go except here.
00:52Nicknamed the happy place, Ayatoru was founded in 1947, but its days seem numbered as the community becomes one of
01:01Nigeria's most visible victims of coastal erosion.
01:07This ocean surge has taken so much from me. It killed my father. When the surge came, it carried everyone.
01:14We tried to rescue my father. We even took him to a hospital, but it was too late.
01:21And for us, the children, it took away our livelihood and ruined us financially.
01:31Coastal erosion in Ayatoru has steadily increased since the early 2000s.
01:36The town's coastline receded by an average of 15 meters every year between 1987 and 2022.
01:44All this 8150 coastal part of Nigeria is under a massive influence of climate change now through ocean surge.
01:58So, the transgressive mode, where Ayatoru is, is no exception.
02:07The story is the same in 19 other communities in a larger district.
02:12Aided by climate change, the Atlantic Ocean is encroaching and sweeping away everything in its path.
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