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Environmentalists and villagers are concerned at the lack of urgency to clean up an oil spill in a World Heritage Area in Solomon Islands. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The development has been the centre of controversy after locals complained construction work already underway was damaging the reef and foreshore. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The total amount available for projects funded under this last call for proposals is CHF 134,000. The SGF offers a maximum of CHF 35,000 per project. Click on the link below for further details

For almost a century, the inhabitants of Robinson Crusoe—named for literature's most famous castaway—have known that their island's fragile ecosystem depends on them conserving its unique wildlife. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

 

There’s a big caveat to go along with this news, though. These protected spaces are not distributed evenly across the globe, still falling well below 17 percent in over half of the world's countries, a study from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) says.

SPREP Is Currently Seeking Interest From Suitable Qualified Individuals For The Following Vacancies:

CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE

Working with Pacific island countries to report to the various multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, an objective of the Inform Project is to address the on-going challenge of compiling high-quality, and up to date data on the environment.

The technical workshop brought together key stakeholders:  state-based protected area managers, the Palau Conservation Society, Palau PAN Office, The Nature Conservancy Palau and Palau National Marine Sanctuary and enabled them to share and discuss common protected area issues and challenges

The government of Palau is partnering with the Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) and the Stanford Ocean Solutions to co-develop science-based policy recommendations and options supporting the implementation of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS).

The Department of Fisheries staff have gone through a 2-day workshop as part of the Project for Promotion of Grace of the Sea in the Coastal Villages Phase III, funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).The workshop focused on integrated Community Based-Coastal Resource Managem