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We’re now in the middle of nesting season for Hawaiian sea turtles, which runs from April to September. After a historically busy season last year, conservation agencies are calling on the public to keep them safe. The U.S.

Bay of Plenty Regional Council has advised that the new Motiti Protection Area comes into effect on 11th August 2021, creating three protection areas around Motiti Island where the taking of all plants and animals (including fish and shellfish) will be prohibited.

Two men have been found guilty of intentionally sinking a boat in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf...Auckland councillor Linda Cooper said the verdict should act as a lesson for others who are looking to make money at the expense of the environment.

Research scientist Jennifer Lavers has spent weeks sifting through the world's waste on two remote sets of islands — and what she has found could have alarming consequences for wildlife. In 2017, many were shocked to learn the shores of uninhabited Henderson Island in the South Pacific

Solomon Islands Government has reinforced its commitment, through the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR), to the development and sustainable management of its tuna resources as a top priority – and called for the involvement of the public to make it a reality. The Minister for

After decades of focus from the world’s governments, media and think tanks, most people now understand what climate change is and the impacts it implies to the future of humanity. Far fewer understand that the danger posed by biodiversity decline is every bit as serious.

Germany helped launch a new billion-dollar fund on Wednesday to tackle rapidly depleting global biodiversity, as countries missed key land and marine conservation targets but prepare to ramp up efforts in the decade ahead.

At the upcoming CBD, countries are expected to reach an agreement to protect 30 percent of the world’s oceans and land by 2030. But which land is protected, as part of this agreement, matters immensely.

Despite lingering tensions among environmentalists and loggers, a plan to launch the largest forestry experiment in the United States — and perhaps the world — last month cleared a major hurdle.

The Commonwealth Secretariat has launched an online database to help member countries be aware of and access more than $170 million of international funding available for ocean-related projects...Both the website and handbook were designed specifically to support the work of the Commonwealth Blue