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The MPhil degree in Conservation Leadership at the University of Cambridge is a full-time, eleven month course aimed at graduates of leadership potential with at least three to five years of relevant experience in biodiversity conservation.

A major new report, Reviving Melanesia’s Ocean Economy: The Case for Action, launched today, has revealed that the ocean is a much larger part of Melanesia’s economy and future prosperity than previously understood.

The Oceania Ecosystem Services Forum (Brisbane, Australia: 27th - 31st March 2017) will celebrate one of the most biologically and culturally diverse regions of the world - Oceania!

When Kiribati established its Phoenix Islands Protected Area in 2006, the central Pacific island nation at first kept 88% of the 408,250-square-kilometer marine reserve open for commercial fishing.

The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) announces the launch of its annual training program ‘16th International Course on Integrated Mangrove Ecosystems Management ’ to be held at the Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology

This volume builds upon the growing literature on sacred sites management represented by works such as Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkley’s Choreographies of Shared Sacred Site; David Carmichael, Jane Hubert, Brian Reeves, and Audhild Schanche’s Sacred Sites, Sacred Places; Gloria

Scientists in Samoa have issued a dire warning about the fate of the national bird, which features on the country’s bank notes and coins.Acccording to ABC News the manumea has been on the brink of extinction for several years. Conservationist Gianluca Serra is leading a team employed by the

Sharks and Rays get CITES protection in landslide votes

Silky sharks, all three species of thresher sharks and all nine species of mobula rays (devil rays) will be listed on Appendix II of CITES after a series of landslide votes at the 17th Conference of P... More detail

SPREP Countries Promoting Global Protection for Sharks and R...