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When it comes to corals, we often overlook their importance simply because they don’t seem as active or alive as the fish happily swimming around them. Click on the link below to read the full article, 

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The Alliance will see the two organizations working together to deliver compelling, inspiring and educational content to drive engagement in conservation of the Great Barrier Reef. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

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The government has passed a law banning “reef-toxic” sunscreen from Jan 1, 2020. Anyone importing or selling banned sunscreen from that date faces a US$1,000 (3,300 baht) fine, while tourists who bring it into the country will have it confiscated.

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Findings published this week show that all the carbon dioxide piling up in the ocean’s dark depths is causing the seafloor as we know it to dissolve. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

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Our findings place constraints on future predictions of ocean acidification, are consequential to the fate of benthic calcifiers, and indicate that a by-product of human activities is currently altering the geological record of the deep sea.

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Four Pacific coral reef World Heritage sites have been selected for a four-year, USD$9 million project that will build climate resilience leadership - Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (Palau), Lagoons of New Caledonia (France), Ningaloo Coast and the Great

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PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet is a global partnership initiative to facilitate learning from success in conservation. It promotes examples of inspiring solutions that showcase how nature conservation can benefit society.

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The newly passed policy further demonstrates the FSM’s commitment to the Island Biodiversity Program of Work which was adopted in 2006, at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) Conference of the Parties 8 (COP 8), in Curitiba, Brazil (decision VII/1). The decision by

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The study, led by researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia and the Wildlife Conservation Society in NY, paints the first global picture of the threat to the world's remaining wildernesses - and the image is bleak.

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Fiji has been labelled a bigger brother in the Pacific by the President of Kiribati.Taneti Maamau made the statement while visiting the Koroipita Model Town in Naikabula, Lautoka on October 29. This was followed by a meeting on climate change adaptation and solutions.

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