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The dual impacts of over-fishing and climate change appear to have resulted in the depletion of fish stocks on various common fishing grounds used by local fishermen from Titiana village, in the Western province of Solomon Islands...In response to poor catches, villagers are now looking more at r

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Protecting the world’s oceans and its resources could be coming closer to reality as countries gather this week in China for the United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity.

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The Vunausi Environment Conservation Organization (VECO) has addressed one of the biggest environmental concerns for surrounding communities on the Tangoa mainland with its coastal rehabilitation project.

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After a year’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Biodiversity Conference will convene virtually to build political momentum for the adoption of a new global biodiversity framework in 2022. The UN Biodiversity Conference will convene...

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A growing global push to safeguard nature by pledging to protect about a third of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 will fall short unless biodiversity-rich Southeast Asian nations get behind the ambitious proposal, environmentalists have warned...Cambodia is the only Southeast Asian nation to

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Nearly 40 years after a majority of the member states of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) voted in 1982 to suspend commercial whaling indefinitely, whaling continues, albeit to a lesser extent—as does scientific research using the products of that whaling.

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...according to a study based on satellite imagery and maps from local governments that was published last month in Biological Conservation.

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A partnership between the Republic of the Marshall Islands and The Nature Conservancy will supply canned tuna to Walmart stores for the store’s Great Value brand across the United States.

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Councillors who voted to forge ahead with mapping significant natural areas (SNAs) on the West Coast are likely to lose their seats at the next election in retaliation, regional council chairman Allan Birchfield says...Professional planners working on the combined plan have been warning for month

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Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA) and Protected Area Solutions hosted a four-day Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool training for landowners of the Mt. Wilhelm protected area recently. the Mt.

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