Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

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View of Moais—stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture—on the Ahu Tongariki site on Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. Photo by Gregory Boissy/AFP/Getty Images.

Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui, is far from the mainland of South America. But the long journey is worth it to see the moai statues and verdant landscape.

On Easter Island (Rapa Nui in Polynesian), the moai are visibly deteriorating, with some experts warning that these majestic stone statues could turn to sand within a few decades.

The widespread deforestation believed to have been caused by the Rapa Nui people to build the towering Easter Island statues did not result in the population’s catastrophic collapse as held by a ...

The globally famous giant stone statues of Easter Island are the world’s best-known Polynesian monumental works of art.

For hundreds of years, the sculpting of giant ancestor stone statues was central to Easter Island’s civilisation. The largest statue in this photograph is 9 metres tall and weighs 86 tonnes ...

Spanning more than 800,000 square miles in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Polynesia, aptly named the "region of many islands," is a tapestry of diverse cultures and landscapes.