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The selected consultant(s) will lead the Mid-Term Evaluation of the Kiwa Regional MiCOAST Project, covering implementation progress from September 2023 to September 2025.

The MACBLUE GIS workshop series concluded last week in Vanuatu, bringing together key stakeholders for a week-long event from June 23 to 27.

The role – The Pacific Island Fisheries Professional (Legal and Monitoring Control Surveillance) will provide legal support to the Legal and MCS Advisers in advancing coastal fisheries and aquaculture compliance across Pacific Island countries and territories.

The role – the Monitoring Control and Surveillance Officer (Coastal Fisheries and Aquaculture - Training), will support and lead the development and implementation of certificate level courses in Community Compliance for Coastal Fisheries, specifically tailored for the northern Pacific region.

A community advocacy group in Papua New Guinea says Prime Minister James Marape's promise to stop issuing new forestry licences will do nothing to stop illegal logging destroying the country's remaining forests.

The Cook Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia are separated by around 6,000 kilometres of Pacific Ocean. Despite the vast stretch of water between them, the two small island nations share a common challenge: how to protect their people from rising seas and extreme weather.

Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter of policies, protected areas and enforcement. But that lens has led conservation astray. Around the world, biodiversity continues to decline. Communities are too often displaced in the name of conservation.

A major step forward toward strengthening natural resource management in the Solomon Islands has begun with the Training of Trainers (TOT) for Forest Rangers of Guadalcanal Province.

The Solomon Islands Rangers Association (SIRA) has proudly launched the nation's first Rangers's Guide to Natural Resources Laws in the Solomon Islands: Your Roles, Your Rights, along with a dedicated Facilitator's Handbook.

His excellency Wesley W. Simina, President of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), has concluded a series of high-level engagements at the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) and the 6th Pacific Islands France Summit in Nice, France.