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June 2, 2023 by sprep-pa

Every year the National Environment Service (NES) sends two park rangers to Suwarrow for six to eight months of the year to protect and manage the environment and wildlife of the island – a designated national park and bird sanctuary since 1978...The rangers play a key role in ensuring the

June 2, 2023 by sprep-pa

National Geographic said it has launched a five-year Pacific Ocean expedition to investigate marine life and ecosystems, find new species and identify potential protected areas in some of the Earth’s most remote seas. The expedition aboard the ship E/V Argo embarked from Tahiti on Thursday.

May 26, 2023 by sprep-pa

Palau’s World Heritage-listed Rock Islands Southern Lagoon is one of the pilot sites of our Resilient Reefs Initiative – a global climate change program helping reefs and communities adapt to the impacts of climate change and local threats.

May 26, 2023 by sprep-pa

The recognition that taboos work and the country now wants to designate 30 percent of its waters to be protected is interesting and this is a show of commitment. This has been stated by Blue Prosperity Fiji Co-Science Principal Investigator, Dr.

May 24, 2023 by sprep-pa

As Indigenous groups seek to co-manage the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, elders help the next generation find opportunity on the islands in science and conservation...the Mariana Trench is home to wildlife and habitats found nowhere else.

May 24, 2023 by sprep-pa

A proposal to turn large swaths of ocean into a protected marine sanctuary was met with pushback from residents concerned about the federal government taking more control over the waters of the Western Pacific.

May 24, 2023 by sprep-pa

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sea Shepherd Global to have the latter conduct sea patrols as a deterrent to increasing levels of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing occurring Tuvalu’s waters.

May 24, 2023 by sprep-pa

The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) has governed worldwide “long-term conservation and sustainable use” of shared fish stocks—those that bridge the legal boundaries separating the waters of nations, mainly tunas and sharks—since 2001.

May 19, 2023 by sprep-pa

We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can the tide still be turned? The planetary boundaries were discussed on May 9 as part of the Leiden University Green Office's Sustainability Day.

May 12, 2023 by sprep-pa

When people leave their rural lives behind to seek their fortunes in the city or agriculture is no longer profitable, the lands they toiled on are often left unused.

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