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Palau Takes a Stand for Ocean Conservation

The efforts to increase society's environmental sustainability focus on four major challenges that need to be addressed: climate change, natural resource dissipation, environmental pollution, and biodiversity loss.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has thanked the France government for giving  over K400 million (US$1.5 million) for forest conservation in his country.  “I want to appreciate France President HE I.

At COP28, Pacific Islands State Leaders launched a bold new Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity initiative to safeguard and revitalize the Blue Pacific Continent.

A new study estimates that nearly half of the world’s known flowering plants are threatened. Scientists built an AI model using plants they know are threatened or safe, then used it to estimate how many others are threatened as well.

Dreketi River is now a sanctuary, 18 years after the elders of the district made several attempts to halt overfishing as fish stocks dwindled.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute have published a new study on the impact of MPAs on the recreational scuba diving industry in California’s Northern Channel Islands.

The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a proposed rule Wednesday to designate 16 islands as critical habitat for five Indo-Pacific coral species listed under the Endangered Species Act, a move mostly linked to climate change.

...an international team of researchers...have unraveled the complex dimensions of elasmobranch biodiversity—the ocean's most threatened vertebrate group, which includes sharks and rays.

New guidelines provide practical tips for creating and managing sustainable private nature reserves, based on a global survey of more than 50 practitioners worldwide.