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Since May 2018, Live and Learn Vanuatu (LLV) has been working with five registered Community Conservation Areas in Vanuatu in partnership with the Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation (DEPC) and Eco-livelihood Association (EDA) to develop a Biodiversity monitoring toolkit and C

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The stakes are high for the Pacific, where the pulse of an ailing ocean is sounding a warning for the future of its 12 million people.

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Palau's government says it has achieved seven out of eight Millenium Development Goals during the presentation of its Voluntary National Review (VNR) held in New York on July 16.

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The Pacific Community and the United Nations' oceans body have made a formal agreement aimed at saving the world's oceans.The Community's deputy director-general, Cameron Diver, and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's executive secretary, Vladimir Ryabinin, today signed a Letter of I

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A recent assessment by the UN concluded that the state of the oceans is failing, with changing balances and declining biodiversity and fish stocks.The UN plans to declare the 2020s the 'Decade of the Ocean', and the Pacific is the first of ten consultation points to work out what exactly it shoul

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A major palm oil producer Korindo has been found guilty today (Wednesday) of rainforest destruction and human rights abuses in Papua by the Forest Stewardship Council.

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A Pacific environmentalist says temperature rise could leave equatorial Pacific countries without their main protein source.Taholo Kami is calling for more research into how much temperature change reef fish species can sustain.

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Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an increasingly common way of protecting marine ecosystems by prohibiting fishing in specific locations. However, many people remain skeptical that MPAs will benefit fish populations. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

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SPREP is seeking to recruit a Finance and Administration Assistant for the Pacific Ecosystem-base Adaptation to Climate Change (PEBACC) Project -Vanuatu. Click on the link below for further details. 

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SPREP is seeking to recruit a Communications Support Specialist to work on a part-time consultancy basis for a period of 13 months. Click on the link below for further details.

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