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The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, has pledged to put an extra half a million square kilometres of Australia’s ocean out of reach of fishers and drillers in a step conservationists hope will “right the wrongs” of an Abbott-era downgrade of marine protection.

The Indo-Pacific is the largest marine biogeographical region on Earth and a global center of marine biodiversity. Nevertheless, there are gaps remaining in our understanding of the diversity, distribution, and endemism of many animal groups in this vast area, especially in relation to sponges.

On a quiet afternoon in 2009, after a game of touch rugby, Manoa Duwai sat down to eat. In front of him was a bowl of rice and cup of tea – and no fish. When he later went to the reef along the coastline of Naidiri, all he found was undersized fish struggling to survive.

As Pacific shorelines face the increasing threat of rising sea levels and associated coastal erosion and submersion risks, the community of Ouvéa is launching a grassroots defense.

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A coral bleaching event is currently affecting several reef systems across Fiji, according to marine conservation group Reef Explorer Fiji.

SPREP wishes to call for tenders from qualified and experienced Monitoring and Evaluation Specialists (Individual Consultants) who can offer their technical expertise to develop and assess implementation of an M&E framework and associated M&E guidelines for the BOLD project.

SPREP wishes to call for tenders from qualified and experienced consultants who can offer their services to lead the technical revision of the Regional PRISMSS Adaptation Fund Concept Note in response to feedback from the Adaptation Fund Secretariat, and to develop the associated Adaptation Fund

SPREP wishes to call for tenders from qualified and experienced consultants who can offer their services to ground truth mangrove areas in Samoa for carbon stock management and MRV improvement of the Samoa CARES website.

SPREP wishes to call for quotes from qualified and experienced consultants who can offer their services to work closely with the National turtle monitoring coordinators and SPREP to clearly develop nationally owned priority actions for marine turtle conservation, informed by the latest regional e