Within the German non-profit project WissensWerte, a hand drawn, animated short-film called Awesome Oceans has been published. It shows how fascinating this habitat is, but also how human behaviour endangers it.
The video can be watched here: https://youtu.be/UHYBH0Vn-2Y
It has a Creative Commons license and can be used and shared for free in any way.
You can download it here: http://edeos.org/en/portfolio/awesome-oceans/
In support of: Niue Forest Conservation and Protected Area Management
Community-Based Action in Small Island Developing States: Best Practices from the Equator Initiative
This publication is a companion piece to Island Innovations—UNDP and GEF: Leveraging Environment and Energy for the Sustainable Development of SIDS, a joint UNDP and GEF (Global Environment Facility) book launched at the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, 2014.
This guidebook outlines how to use communication as more than just a tool for outreach, but rather as a mechanism to catalyze change in a community’s attitude and behavior. When using various communication techniques, it is important to regard them as tools to create change from the very beginning, rather than a way to update the community on progress after the fact. Communication should not be a one sided conversation.
The 2010 Pacific Forum Leaders’ and Forum Economic Ministers’ directive on reporting acknowledged the need to streamline global, regional, and national reporting to reduce the reporting burden at the national level in the Pacific. For the environment sector, member countries of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) endorsed a plan for the establishment of a regional state of environment framework by 2012 and streamlined reporting by 2015.
This manual provides detailed guidance for assessing the social impacts – benefits and costs – of protected areas (PAs) and related conservation and development activities, at the local level using the relatively simple and low cost Social Assessment for Protected Areas (SAPA) methodology. SAPA can be used with PAs of any kind, including PAs managed and governed by government agencies, communities and the private sector.