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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.

Biodiversity is being recognised as the foundation of food security and economic resilience in the Pacific. This has been highlighted by regional agricultural experts during the Pacific Agricultural Plant Genetic Resources Network meeting.

The G20 Global Land Initiative will launch the second round of its small grants programme in 2025, expanding support for civil society organizations working to restore degraded land and promote sustainable land management.

A new restoration project was successfully carried out on the banks of the Boghen River in Bourail (New Caledonia), as part of the PERENNE project supported by the Kiwa Initiative.

A groundbreaking scientific and conservation expedition is currently underway across Fiji’s expansive ocean territory aboard the research vessel Argo. This marks a defining step in the nation’s commitment to ocean protection and sustainable marine management.

The Coral Restoration Consortium’s Field-based Propagation Working Group has just released A Guide to Coral Reef Restoration: Optimizing Efficiency and Scale for In Situ Nurseries and Outplanting.

Divers clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands.

Thirteen representatives from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu are returning home with new skills and deeper insights into seagrass mapping and monitoring after a week-long regional training in Suva, Fiji.

Tetepare Island, an untouched paradise surrounded by vibrant coral reefs, is one of the few places left in the world where natural forests still reign.

Priority for funding is given to projects that focus on tortoises or freshwater turtles that are already highly threatened according to the IUCN Red List or the TFTSG Provisional Red List, as either Critically Endangered or Endangered, or which may be highly threatened but not yet officially clas