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NZ Pacific Partnership On Ocean Acidification, Project Technical Assistant (PPOA, PTA)

November 8, 2019 by [email protected]

This job exists to provide project assistance and support in the management and implementation of the NZ Pacific Partnership on Ocean Acidification Project.

High Five! PANORAMA has reached 555 conservation answers, available to environmentalists around the world

November 8, 2019 by [email protected]

Conservationists have a community, an international space for the problems they have conquered, a way to find how others have solved their conservation conundrums, and the building blocks to answer their current and future issues.

Aerial photo of Midway Atoll. source - US Fish and Wildlife Service

Plastic From Ocean Garbage Patch Plagues Island Sanctuary

November 8, 2019 by [email protected]

With virtually no predators, Midway is a haven for many species of seabirds and is home to the largest colony of albatross in the world. But Midway is also at the center of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast area of floating plastic collected by circulating oceanic currents.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Source - OFFICE OF MAUNA KEA MANAGEMENT

As UH Board Rethinks Mauna Kea Management, Other Cases Serve As Models

November 8, 2019 by [email protected]

The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents today is considering a proposal to review possible new management options for Mauna Kea in the wake of a three-month protest against the planned Thirty Meter Telescope. Some working models could broaden the role of native Hawaiians in directing the mount

Bar-tailed godwits and pied stilts; seen from the old hide. credit - creative commons

Biodiversity HiveMind Report: Plenty Of Common Ground

November 7, 2019 by [email protected]

What do people think about protecting and restoring New Zealand’s biodiversity? To find out, we invited New Zealanders to engage with each other on this topic as citizens using Scoop’s public engagement platform, HiveMind.

A man uses a garden hose to try to save his home from wildfire in Granada Hills, California, on 11 October 2019. Photograph: Michael Owen Baker/AP

Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’

November 7, 2019 by [email protected]

The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists. “We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency,” it states.

A community member in an MPA. source - http://geographical.co.uk/

Do marine protected areas help or harm local communities?

November 7, 2019 by [email protected]

Marine Protected Areas are designed to benefit the marine ecosystem and human coastal populations, but are they actually achieving both? There are currently nearly 17,000 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) across the globe.

The Broadback Watershed contains some of the last old-growth boreal forest in the Waswanipi Cree territory.(Josué Bertolino/© Josué Bertolino / Greenpeace)

They’ve managed the forest forever. It’s why they’re key to the climate change fight

November 7, 2019 by [email protected]

More than 600 indigenous communities live in Canada’s boreal forest, one of the last great swaths of intact wilderness on Earth.

A potential scenario of future sea level rise in South Beach, Miami, Florida, with a global temperature rise of 2C. Photograph: Nickolay Lamm/Courtesy Climate Central

Sea levels set to keep rising for centuries even if emissions targets met

November 7, 2019 by [email protected]

Sea level rise is set to challenge human civilization for centuries to come, even if internationally agreed climate goals are met and planet-warming emissions are then immediately eliminated, researchers have found.

Cook Islands pay particular attention to the sustainable management of fisheries. 19110317

Dialogue on sustainable oceans

November 7, 2019 by [email protected]

A discussion on Cook Islands approaches to international engagement to secure sustainable oceans will be held today.

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