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The Republic of the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Palau, and Panama today announced their joining of the Tuna Transparency Pledge, a global initiative led by international environmental NGO The Nature Conservancy that addresses unsustainable and illegal tuna fishing practices at sea.

The Ensuring Resilient Ecosystems and Representative Protected Areas (EREPA) Project in the Solomon Islands aims to promote biodiversity protection, build capacity for the creation and management of protected areas, and strengthen the policy framework for creating, managing and maintaining Protec

A full-fledged care center will soon be established at the headquarters of the SOP Manu association in Toahotu. This mission has been entrusted to Samantha Renault, an expert on the subject after spending ten years caring for petrels in Reunion Island.

The Cook Islands government, in collaboration with the Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner (OPOC), held the national consultations on the Ratification and Implementation of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Mari

A United Nations Committee is being urged to act on human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea.

Fiji continues to work towards improved fisheries transparency, with some major developments in recent months.

Poaching and weak enforcement are threatening Fiji’s marine ecosystems and undermining the efforts of local communities fighting to protect them.  This has sparked urgent calls for new legislation at a coral reef conservation workshop held today.

The Secretariat of the Pacific Environment Programme (SPREP) through its technical assistance programme under the Kiwa Initiative, continues to support the Government of Kiribati in mainstreaming and implementing Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Change Adaptation.

Representatives from Pacific Island governments, environment ministries, regional partners, biodiversity and climate change experts will gather in Samoa next week to accelerate action on pressing environmental challenges, safeguarding our islands, our people and our way of life.

The island of New Guinea is famed for its eye-popping diversity of plants, animals and human cultures. Estimated to host one-tenth of Earth’s species, it’s the world’s second-largest island and has the third-largest intact expanse of tropical forest in the world, after the Amazon and the Congo.