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The head of Tonga's delegation to the Pacific Tuna Commission meeting underway in Vietnam is calling for more unity and cooperation as delegates haggle over the management measures for the multi-billion dollar fishery.

Fourteen Pacific Islands countries are working together on a unique application to access a $US70 million grant from the Green Climate fund for fisheries adaptation. There are two parts to the proposal.

The future of the world's largest tuna fishery is being decided in Vietnam this week. All 26 member countries and participating territories of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) are custodians of the multi-billion dollar Pacific tuna fishery.

They are the salt-tolerant shrubs that thrive in the toughest of conditions, but according to new UniSA research, mangroves are also avid coastal protectors, capable of surviving in heavy metal contaminated environments.

In Vanua Levu, the second largest island of Fiji, every contour drips with green. The landscape is impossibly lush and verdant.

Governments should embrace the realities of shifting biodiversity rather than "investing in futile efforts to return the natural world to its historic state," a new study argues.

I was filled with hope when I read the first draft of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) in mid-2021. It seemed that the parties to the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity had learnt from bitter experience — the failure of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, set for the previous decade.

Researchers found there is no need for policymakers to choose between protecting nature's benefits to people or protecting animal species.

Commercial fishing vessels in the Pacific could see regional fisheries observers returning to their decks as early as January...There are concerns the three-year-absence of these observers from commercial fishing vessels has been detrimental to the regulation of the world's largest tuna fishery.

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