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Environmentalists want to stop Japan‘s plans to discharge what they say is more than a million tonnes of highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Our oceans are at risk from oil companies and politicians trying to expand offshore drilling to treasured places where drilling doesn’t belong. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Recently, social media have become an increasingly important source of information on human-nature interactions. However, the use of advanced methods for analysing social media is still limited, and social media data are not used to their full potential.

The Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute, in partnership with the Protected Areas Learning & Research Collaboration (PALRC), offers a five-day intensive training program that aims to give participants a good understanding of adaptive management tools through the internatio

Using a strategy called dynamic ocean management, researchers are creating tools to forecast where fish will be—and where endangered species won’t be. Click on the link to read the full article. 
 

Delegates were unable to bridge the gaps on issues including: the scope of the instrument; whether benefit-sharing would be carried on a monetary or non-monetary basis; and the overarching principles governing the future international legally binding instrument.

Combining traditional knowledge with modern science and technology could reduce loss of property and human life from out-of-control blazes. Each year, huge fires in Australia’s center and north devour all plant and animal life that comes before them.

The Valorisation of Protected Areas Resources MOOC highlights the sustainable use or valorisation of natural resources in protected areas.The

The world needs a new international protected area target based on scientific evidence, according to a team including University of Queensland scientists.

The 2nd Oceania Ecosystem Services Forum (OESF) 2019 aims to bring together policy-makers, businesses, community leaders and researchers with the aspiration of ‘Creating healthy communities and ecosystems for a resilient future’. This is the second call for abstracts and proposals for the OESF wi