The Pitcairn Island Council recently published a five-year plan providing a framework and long-term direction for managing activities, monitoring, compliance and enforcement of the Pitcairn Islands marine protected area (MPA).
The UK Government has signed an agreement with the Pacific Community (SPC) for £263,000 (US$359,000) that will help Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Tonga to secure the rights and responsibilities over their respective ocean spaces. Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are the custodians of 20% of
The villagers of Namatakula in Sigatoka will soon benefit from a nature-based seawall that will cost more than $38,000...Minister for Waterways, Doctor Mahendra Reddy says like other coastal communities in Fiji, Namatakula Village faces coastal erosion, along with increased impact from extreme we
Pacific civil society groups have written to the British government seeking support on calls for an international deepsea mining moratorium.
The UK is to become the first country to pioneer a major network of underwater camera rigs, funding the world’s largest ocean wildlife monitoring system to help protect life below water.
Greenpeace activists have built a new underwater 'boulder barrier' in a protected area of the English Channel to stop a hugely harmful fishing practice. In total 18 boulders, each weighing about three tonnes and carrying the name of a celebrity endorser, were dropped this week from the Greenpeace
Fossil bones collected in the early 1990s on Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn Group, have revealed a new species of Polynesian sandpiper.
Lord Goldsmith said the UK has a lot in common with the Pacific with shared views on climate, biodiversity and the ocean...The UK has a number of initiatives that will continue to address the climate/ocean nexus following the virtual visit.
Climate action and oceans realities for the Pacific have been the focus of a just-ended virtual tour of the region by the United Kingdom’s Minister for Pacific and the Environment, Lord Zak Goldsmith.
