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The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has extended the suspension of total fisheries observer coverage in the region until February 2021, amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic...The suspension of 100 percent of fisheries observer coverage was initiated in March as the pande

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Invasive species are a major threat to the global economy and the environment, costing economies billions of dollars to control each year.

Serious offences are taking place on, in, or across the Pacific maritime domain that put at risk the political stability and economic interests of Pacific island states.

As one of only two atoll islands in Palau, the atoll forests and strand vegetation of Kayangel are unique to Palau’s forests.

Previous mangrove restoration projects have proved unsustainable over the long term due to a focus on planting “in the wrong place, the wrong species, the wrong density.” A new approach, called ecological mangrove restoration (EMR), accounts for an area’s altered hydrology and encourages natural

Future pandemics could be prevented if unsustainable practices like deforestation and the industrial-scale wildlife trade are halted, according to a global biodiversity report.

In late October, 36 individuals from around the North West and West Coast Santo area councils converged on the village of Penouru to participate in Vanuatu’s first Environmental Ranger training program.

This Climate & Health Dialogue will reveal the connections between nature, climate change and human health outcomes, and explore emerging challenges to food security, the control of infectious and noncommunicable 

In 2015, then-New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced his commitment to protect the waters surrounding the Kermadec Islands by creating one of the world’s largest fully protected marine areas...For millennia, this ocean region has been pristine, but it could face threats in the future from