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The Cross-Cutting Themes Manager ensures these principles are embedded across the program, strengthening regional organisational capacity to meet humanitarian needs.

Exploring ways to address the impacts of climate change in Tonga, the Island Kingdom has focussed its lens on Nature-based Solutions (NbS). To enhance its ability to do so, stakeholders came together to review and validate its national policies on forestry and coastal resilience sectors.

The Lelu Ruins community members and participants from the Kosrae Island Resource Management Authority (KIRMA) in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), are now better equipped on the safe use of herbicides, correct application techniques, proper equipment handling and best-practice weed manag

In an extraordinary show of international solidarity, member nations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) have voted to uplist all ten species of manta and devil rays to Appendix I – the Convention’s strongest possible safeguard.

The first of over 70 species of sharks and rays proposed for greater protections, the critically endangered Oceanic whitetip shark, was granted the strongest level of protection today at a UN wildlife summit.

The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment says that in finding solutions for biodiversity, it is important to recognize that no single set of options or financing solutions alone can address the biodiversity loss we are currently facing.

Native forests are recovering, and seabird populations are soaring on Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) thanks to a successful campaign to remove damaging, invasive rats in 2024, said Island Conservation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring islan

New light has been shed on how rainfall and land use can jointly shape the health of coral reefs, following a sweeping, multi-year scientific campaign across the tropical island of Mo’orea in French Polynesia.

New Guinea is staggeringly rich in life. Occupying just 0.5% of Earth’s land surface, it hosts an estimated 5-8% of all species. This abundance is reflected in more than 2,800 orchid species, over 1,000 butterflies and around 800 birds.

The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO is looking for an Individual Consultant to serve as Assistant Project Officer for the UN Ocean Decade of Ocean Science fo