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SPREP Is Seeking Applications From Interested And Suitably Qualified Persons For The Following Vacancy of National Invasive Species Coordinator - Republic Of The Marshall Islands.

Although the potential effects of mining have been investigated for decades the ecology of these remote areas is still poorly understood. To what extent and timescale these ecosystems would be affected by, and could recover from, mining disturbance remains unclear.

With increasing demand for food by the planet's growing human population, and climate change threatening the stability of food systems around the world, University of Minnesota researchers affiliated with NSF's Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research site examined how a nation's crop

On paper, nations are protecting their wilderness areas. In practice, most protected areas lack effective policing. Nature is not safe, even in reserves. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

To preserve New Zealand’s remaining native biodiversity, the country has begun an ambitious nationwide program to eliminate its most damaging non-native invasive predators — rats, stoats and possums — by 2050.

Using 22 climate models, Scott Power and François Delage at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne analysed the rate at which monthly temperatures are likely to reach unprecedented levels over the course of the twenty-first century.

The Ocean Cleanup project has been redesigned and relaunched, as it makes its second attempt to clean up a giant pile of plastic concentrated in the Pacific Ocean. Last September The Ocean Cleanup made the world’s first attempt to clean the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”.

For the first time in the Pacific region, a policy dialogue between the seventeen (17) Forum Fishery Agency (FFA) Members and the European Union (EU) to discuss issues and challenges relating to the sustainable management of marine resources commenced in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia...

Two expeditions sailed from Pearl Harbor today with a mission focused on ocean conservation.The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration celebrated its 20th anniversary of the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program by studying our coral reefs and the potential dangers they’re facing.