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With its white sands, clear waters and jutting mountains, Lord Howe Island is a slice of world heritage-listed paradise in the Pacific Ocean. There's just one problem - it is besieged by rats.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

The global theme for Earth Hour is Biodiversity...WWF-Pacific is focusing on Mangroves for Earth Hour 2018. Mangroves are culturally and economically important to coastal communities in Fiji.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

Human activities are causing an alarming decline in the variety of plant and animal life on Earth and jeopardizing food, clean water and energy supplies, a UN-backed study of biodiversity said on Friday.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

...new research has found that there is many times more garbage in this patch than previously thought " 4 to 16 times more than past estimates, Click on the link below to read the full story.

Samoa recently became the world's 17th shark sanctuary, joining other countries in the effort to preserve threatened shark species within their waters.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

We are inviting applications for a Travel Award for PhD Students and postdoctoral trainees to attend a scientific meeting with relevance to fishes" and aquatic organisms" research of their choice in 2018-2019. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee presided by the Prof. Dr.

The Pacific Conservation Biology Journal has introduced a new type of article called "Field Notes".

Although coral reefs have been the subject of ecological studies for nearly a century, the role that environmental conditions play in coral development is still a partial mystery.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

The Government of Vanuatu through the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity (MALFFB) has requested FAO as an Accredited Entity (AE) to the GCF to assist in the development of a project proposal entitled: "Transformation towards a resilient and climate-smart Agric

The São Paulo University Oceanographic Institute, São Paulo, Brazil will be conducting a week-long school on ocean governance, from the13 to 25 August 2018.Click on the link below for further details.