SPC- EU Deep Sea Minerals Project
SPC- EU Deep Sea Minerals Project
The Deep Sea Minerals Project is a collaboration between the Pacific Community (SPC) and the European Union (EU).
Initiated in 2011, the €4.4 million DSM Project is helping Pacific Island countries to improve the governance and management of their deep-sea minerals resources in accordance with international law, with particular attention to the protection of the marine environment and securing equitable financial arrangements for Pacific Island countries and their people.
Camera Trap Data Analyses - Tropical Ecology Assessment & Monitoring Network
Tropical Ecology Assessment & Monitoring Network
http://blog.conservation.org/2016/01/in-camera-trap-snaps-scientists-tackle-big-data-challenge/?utm_source=enewsupdate&utm_medium=email&utm_content=022516-b-link&utm_campaign=AGL&s_src=enewsupdate_email&s_subsrc=022516-b-link
Mapping Multilateral Environmental Agreements to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
Mapping Multilateral Environmental Agreements to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
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NOAA Marine Debris Program
Vision
The NOAA Marine Debris Program envisions the global ocean and its coasts free from the impacts of marine debris.
Mission
The mission of the NOAA Marine Debris Program is to investigate and prevent the adverse impacts of marine debris.
Papua New Guinea Forest Monitoring Portal
Papua New Guinea Forest Monitoring Portal
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) forests are vital for the human population that they sustain, the wide biological diversity they contain, the ecological services they provide and in maintaining climatic stability. They also provide commercial timber; approx. 3 million m³ of raw logs were exported in 2011.
Capacity Development for Protected and Other Conserved Areas in the Pacific Islands Region
This document is an important tool for promoting action. It highlights the importance of culturally‐responsive capacity development, with Pacific Islanders defining the most appropriate approaches to be used. This requires partnerships, programs, and processes that work closely with existing contexts and conditions, understand and reflect values and cultures, and help build on existing knowledge and the great strength of the region – community‐based management. That is the purpose of this framework.
Social Assessment for Protected Areas (SAPA)
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.