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Funding opportunity from the US Fish and Wildlife Service under its Marine Turtle Conservation Fund, intended to fund conservation in turtle ranges that are outside of the US and its territories. Click on the link below for further information. 

Good governance may be viewed as applying a set of internationally accepted principles for governing protected areas... MPAs that effectively apply these good governance principles can have sustained support and resiliency, and can meet multiple community and conservation goals.

Under current greenhouse gas emissions rates, climate change will alter ocean ecosystems dramatically in the coming decades.

The Fiji Ridge to Reef (R2R) project was developed with the intention to maintain and enhance Fiji’s ecosystem goods and services. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Though we share this big, blue planet with thousands of species, human beings don’t always show the respect we should to the animal kingdom. Nowhere is that more apparent than in our waste-filled, polluted oceans and seas. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

We live on one planet, 70% of which is made up of ocean – an ocean which is teeming with fascinating and beautiful marine life. However, many of the world’s seas have been, and continue to be under immense pressure. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Compounding food insecurity are the depleting reef fish stocks, which the government is hoping to address through the eventual establishment of locally managed marine areas. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Surveys commissioned by the team managing Marae Moana reveal that little is known within the Cook Islands community about the marine park covering our whole ocean. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Gagaifolevao is one of six Lefaga district villages intent on regenerating and protecting coral reefs for the sake of their children, but also in a money making venture to uplift the community at large. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The Va’a Based Environmental Education Campaign, which was based at Manono-Uta Primary School throughout last week, made a lasting impact on both the students and the teachers of the targeted district – Aiga I Le Tai. Click on the link below to read the full article.