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 Fisheries officials and delegates from the 17 Members of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), are gathering this week at the Millenium Hall in Alofi, Niue, for the 138th Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) Annual Officials Meeting.

A week-long training on using open-source GIS tools and remote sensing satellite data from the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Digital Earth Pacific (DE Pacific) will enable Solomon Islands government officials and researchers to better map, monitor and protect seagrass and mangrove ecosystems.

The inaugural Pasifika Futures Forum officially opened today at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Suva, bringing together over 150 Pacific Island leaders, policymakers, traditional knowledge holders, youth, disability advocates, and development partners from across the Pacific region.

The Government of Papua New Guinea, through the Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA), hosted an official ceremony to signing the project document for the implementation of a Global Environment Facility (GEF) initiative under its 8th funding replenishment cycle (GEF-8) yesterda

his past Saturday, over 30 volunteers gathered along the banks of Ngatoe Stream in Vaima’anga to take part in a successful community planting day.

On the morning of Friday, May 9, a ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the official opening of Ngerchebal Island in Aimeliik State.

New Caledonia has imposed a 50-year ban on deep-sea mining across its entire maritime zone in a rare and sweeping move that places the French Pacific territory among the most restricted exploration areas on the planet's waters.

WWF Pacific is hosting a two-day capacity-building workshop in Suva to support efforts in tracking and protecting endangered marine turtles.

An expedition in Tuvalu's waters is using a submersible to study the ocean - some parts of which have never been studied in-depth. The National Geographic Pristine Seas project is studying the health of Tuvalu's marine environments.

More than 15 scientists and filmmakers from National Geographic Pristine Seas begin an expedition today to study the health of Tuvalu’s marine environments in the hopes of advancing ocean conservation.