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Ahead of the November 4 New Caledonian referendum for independence from French rule, France has made a strong commitment to the Indo-Pacific region with financial, political, and on-the-ground support and said a planned development bank would focus on climate change in the region.Click

A plastic carrier bag has been found 36,000ft below the ocean's surface - as the world's deepest trench is revealed to have become a rubbish dump.\Click on the link below to read the full article.

SPREP welcomes applications from interested and suitably qualified persons for the following vacancies:Manager, Project Coordination Unit (MPCU)Environmental Information Systems Developer & Analyst (EISDA).Please click on the link below for further details

Local marine stakeholders were invited to celebrate the launch of new, world-class information which will help Tonga"s ocean planning, at a recent event in Nuku"alofa.Click on the link below to read the full article.

This week, Australia"s parliament will decide whether to scuttle planned protections for its abundant waters.Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Kayangel Atoll is set to become the first inhabited island in the Pacific nation of Palau to be cleared of rats.

In 2012, an 18-year-old Dutch entrepreneur told a TEDx audience he was designing a device to clean-up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Click on the link below to read the full article.

The report in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes many of more than 8,000 places labeled as marine protected areas will be overtaken by effects of climate change without major reductions in carbon-dioxide releases worldwide.Click on the link below to read the full article.

If successful, this will be the first inhabited island within Palau to be cleared of rats. Click on the link below to read the full article.

Designated large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs, 100,000 or more square kilometers) constitute over two-thirds of the approximately 6.6% of the ocean... Although LSMPAs have received support among scientists and conservation bodies for wilderness protection, regional ecological connect