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Groundbreaking reforms to the $320 billion legal wildlife trade are being put up for discussion at a major international conference this month as campaigners seek to modernize a system they say hasn’t changed in nearly 50 years. Link to full article below. 

New research bolsters the case for indigenous-led land management as a crucial conservation solution.

It is an undisputable fact that Pacific islanders face an existential threat from climate change.To a far more immediate degree than people living in most other parts of the world, inhabitants of low-lying atolls and archipelagos in the Pacific have to worry about losing their security and liveli

A timeline to ban all domestic waste exports, including plastics, paper, glass and tyres, will be put in place following a deal struck at Friday's Council of Australian Governments meeting.

A leading hurricane forecast amended its early-season prediction Thursday, increasing the chances for a more active storm year with the demise of El Niño.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the dissipation of El Niño, a storm-thwarting climate pattern, during the hurrica

A statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land from Indigenous Peoples and local communities from 42 countries spanning 76% of the world’s tropical forests. Link to full article below. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has just turned the area into one of the world’s largest conservation areas, to counter the effects of rising temperatures on Arctic marine life and the indigenous people that call it home. Link to full article below. 

Automated cameras and other sensors deployed in the wild are transforming the way biologists monitor natural ecosystems and animal populations.

The President of the UN's global climate change conference, COP 24, has highlighted the issue of shipwrecks that lie in the waters of some Pacific nations. Poland's Michal Kurtyka issued a statement to wish Pacific leaders the best as they headed into the Forum leaders summit in Tuvalu.

Australia looks to have succeeded in watering down language on climate change in the communiqué of today's Pacific Islands Forum leaders' summit in Tuvalu.