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Representatives from Pacific Island governments, environment ministries, regional partners, biodiversity and climate change experts will gather in Samoa next week to accelerate action on pressing environmental challenges, safeguarding our islands, our people and our way of life.

The island of New Guinea is famed for its eye-popping diversity of plants, animals and human cultures. Estimated to host one-tenth of Earth’s species, it’s the world’s second-largest island and has the third-largest intact expanse of tropical forest in the world, after the Amazon and the Congo.

Ocean conservation is the 14th of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world’s plan to end poverty and achieve sustainability by 2030.

PACIFIC journalists have been given a fresh reminder of their role in disseminating critical information.

This explainer is written using information summary provided by Dr Neeraj Shankar for SPREP. The reporter was flown to Apia, Samoa by the Secretariat of the Pacific Environment Programme (SPREP) to learn more about loss and damage and to help amplify the stories from the Pacific.

Deep in the forests of New Caledonia, the undergrowth hides one of the hottest commodities in the exotic pet trade. The world’s largest geckos, rare species that once flourished in the Pacific territory, can fetch thousands of dollars online.

Environmentalists in the Cook Islands have criticised former Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) head Henry Puna for joining the board of a deep sea mining company.