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An international team of researchers have developed a method to assess sustainable levels of human-caused wildlife mortality, which when applied to a trawl fishery shows that dolphin capture is not sustainable.

While much research has focused on the striking differences in biodiversity between tropical and temperate regions, another, equally dramatic, pattern has gone largely unstudied: the differences in species richness among Earth's three major habitat types—land, oceans and freshwater.

In this episode, we speak with Dorothy Devine Luana, PNG-based owner of DMS Organics, a galip nut grower and processor, and Nora Devoe, research program manager for a project of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), focused on the potential of the galip nut indust

A Chinese company that dug a channel through mangroves and a coral reef to provide access to a multi-million-dollar resort and casino development on a Fijian island has been fined $FJ1 million ($650,000) by the High Court in Suva. The company was found guilty in April last year of

The Fijian Government will continue working closely with its consortium partners to establish and preserve our coastal marine environment.

Madang's Sumkar signed a conservation deed through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Kamapim Ltd last Saturday to commemorate World Earth Day.

Over the past decade, many countries have relied on the best available science to create large-scale highly and fully protected marine protected areas (MPAs) that prohibit damaging human activities, such as industrial fishing.

Vanuatu remains committed in its fight against deep sea mining alongside other Pacific Island nations. As the world turned its focus to provide clean energy, the need of deep-sea mining is one option international organizations have put out as a solution to address the agenda.

French Polynesian President Édouard Fritch recently committed to conserving 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) of the ocean by creating a new large-scale marine protected area and establishing artisanal fishing zones around each of its 118 islands in the South Pacific Ocean. 

The Pacific Parliamentarians’ Alliance on Deep Sea Mining (PPADSM) has been officially launched as a high-level political voice that will advocate for the protection of the Pacific Ocean from exploitation. Vanuatu’s Leader of Opposition, Ralph Regenvanu, is the PPADSM chairman.