The video showcases the Takitumu Conservation Area in Rarotonga emphasising the collaborative and enduring efforts of local communities, environmental organisations, and conservation practitioners.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 20 mins
This dataset contains reports from several workshops held in the Cook Islands as part of the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP) process. The NBSAP workshops involved engaging stakeholders from across government, communities, NGOs, and the private sector to assess biodiversity priorities, identify conservation actions, and support the development and implementation of national biodiversity strategies.
This project aims to reduce and mitigate negative environmental impacts of the key development sectors (agriculture, infrastructure, tourism), which were recognized in the 2018 State of Environment Report as the main national drivers of biodiversity and habitat degradation.The Cook Islands GEF-7 Project ENUA is being implemented by the Cook Islands National Environment Service (NES), with assistance and support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other partners.Below are 2024 quarterly progress reports of this project.
Fiji and other Pacific Island Countries face a high risk of communicable disease outbreaks caused by endemic, emerging and re-emerging disease, which are influenced by social, economic and ecological changes. Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 2 p.
UNESCO’s new publication "Indigenous knowledge, ancestral places: navigating change in UNESCO designated sites" offers honest accounts of resilience from many different perspectives told by Indigenous Peoples whose territories intersect with UNESCO designated sites across the world.
As the climate warms, coral reefs face more frequent and severe impacts from thermal stress while a greater proportion of tropical cyclones are expected to reach the strongest categories. Understanding the impacts of extreme cyclone waves and reef recovery dynamics is essential to support projections of reef communities under future climate scenarios.
The report High-risk forests, high-value returns: A co-benefits assessment for decision-makers examines the global significance of conserving “high-risk forests” or tropical forests with high deforestation risk, covering about 391 million hectares.
Our planet is facing an unprecedented and accelerating biodiversity crisis, driven by human activity and compounded by climate change, which is bringing ever more severe weather to a world already strained by poverty and inequality. Species are disappearing at accelerating rates, entire ecosystems are collapsing at alarming speeds, and millions of people struggle to secure the most basic needs of water, food, energy, and safety.
At World Trade Organization (WTO), the key characteristic according to which support to agricultural producers is classified is their ability to distort international trade rather than their incidence and impacts on social or environmental dimensions. There is a lack of studies and analytical framework to guide policy decisions, such as understanding how specific support, in general, and in different agricultural sub-sectors, are linked to biodiversity, economic, social, and trade outcomes. In this context, our work contributes to filling this gap.
Assessments of coral reef biodiversity generally focus on corals and fishes, although there is a variety of other taxa that live within the structure of coral reefs. Rubble cryptofauna includes sessile and motile species that inhabit dead coral and coral rubble and play critical roles in coral reef ecosystems. The examination of rubble cryptofauna can provide insights into the health and functioning of modern coral reefs.
