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As seabirds’ food security is threatened by human activity, new research in Ireland has found that birds with tracking devices have been follow fishing vessels for food...Human activity is threatening seabird populations.

Harmful to ocean and aquatic life, microplastics make up the nearly three percent toxic pollutants in shallow, tropical waters where corals flourish.

Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean—by colonizing plastic pollution. A new commentary published Dec.

A sting operation is underway in the Western division to clamp down on illegal logging and sawmilling companies. The Ministry of Environment held a roundtable discussion with the Logging and Sawmilling Sector to iron out issues affecting the sector.

When the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) comes together virtually for its annual meeting 1-7 December, member countries need to take stock of how far they still need to go to modernize management of tuna.

There are claims in Papua New Guinea that some of the country's banks are implicated in illegal logging and the human rights abuses that plague the sector. The NGOs Act Now and Jubilee Australia say if banks lend to loggers who are operating illegally, that would make them criminally complic

Another Conservation Achievement: Launching and Declaration of the Padezaka Tribal Rainforest Conservation Area as a legally designated National Protected Area.

Following on from a successful Bird of the Year competition, we are hopeful that many more people will now appreciate the value to our environment of our Cook Islands birds. They are one of Te Ipukarea Society’s key areas of work, and a space we have been working in for a long time.

“See this?” Paul Lynch, an affable middle-aged lawyer, asks the schoolkids gathered around him. He holds up a baseball-sized rock—a polymetallic nodule, so called because it contains multiple metals, among them cobalt, copper, manganese, nickel, and rare earth elements.

In 2016, Stephen Simpson, a marine biologist at the University of Bristol in England, returned to a study site off Australia’s Lizard Island, part of the Great Barrier Reef.