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A Rotorua iwi will lead a mission to restore a wetland and tackle pests - the first project in the government's scheme to create nature-based jobs to help with Covid-19 recovery...Te Arawa Lakes Trust has received $2.5 million in funding to support the creation of 40 jobs.

Small island developing nations continue to find ways to navigate toward long-term sustainability.

Completed in a span of four months, the Viro Village Hybrid Seawall is the first of its type implemented by the Ministry of Waterways and Environment outside of Viti Levu.

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on across the globe, the linkages between ecosystem degradation and the loss of biodiversity, and the emergence of infectious diseases, was discussed during the final session in the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme’s (SPREP) webinar series “

The Cook Islands State of Environment Report (SoE) 2018 was officially approved by Cabinet on 6 March, 2020. The report updates the 1993 baseline with the latest findings supported by scientific data from the Cook Islands and presents it in a form that is easily understood.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is in the final stages of developing its e-waste [electronic waste] management national policy. The Ministry is working on formulating the policy with the support of the European Union-funded Pacific-E.U.

The world’s tropical forests are in serious trouble, with deforestation worsening and the sixth mass extinction accelerating faster than scientists previously thought.

Planting huge numbers of trees to mitigate climate change is "not always the best strategy"—with some experimental sites in Scotland failing to increase carbon stocks, a new study has found.

Indigenous knowledge, including oral histories, mythologies, place names and classification schemes, can span many generations, preserving information that has helped native communities adapt to natural hazards as well as gradually changing conditions.

Conservation experts warn the North Atlantic right whale is on the brink of extinction.