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This is a major step towards achieving Target 11 and will be an important legacy from the meeting. Recognition of ‘conserved areas’ will contribute not only to coverage targets but also to ecological representation, important areas for biodiversity and connectivity.

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Mission Blue last month conducted a Hope Spot expedition to Palau, where expedition members met with President Thomas Remengesau Jr. and talked about his efforts to establish a marine protected area in 80 percent of the waters around the South Pacific island nation.

Research into the decline of humpback whale sightings in Hawaii points to a food chain disruption likely caused by warmer ocean temperatures...Click on the link below to read the full article. 

SPREP is calling for tenders from qualified and experienced consultants who can offer their services for the following - Consultant for By-Catch Mitigation Component of the EDF-11 PEUMP funded By-catch and Integrated Ecosystem. Click on the link below fo further details

Efforts made thus far by the federal government to conserve marine biodiversity have focused on quantity, rather than quality, says a new research paper. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Information about how marine animals move through the oceans has become vitally important as efforts progress to create a global plan for securing sustainable fish stocks in the high seas. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The Blue Pacific narrative underlies our ownership of our ocean space - Pacific people taking control of our domain, which is critical to managing our ocean resources, biodiversity, ecosystems and data...Click on the link below to read the full article.

These guidelines discuss different options and instruments for establishing and managing PPAs, drawing on a diversity of PPAs from around the world. Click on the link below to access the full guidelines.

Before this study, researchers thought the biggest source of biomass on the seafloor was organic matter—like dead fish and plankton—that floated down. Click on the link below to read the full article.