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Surprisingly little attention has been paid to variation among countries in contributions to conservation.

Has having to figure out if you want to do management (EBM), integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), area based management (ABM), whole domain management (WDM), or marine spatial planning (MSP) got you down" You are in luck.

Locally managed marine areas (LMMAs) are often recommended as a strategy to achieve conservation and fisheries management, though few studies have evaluated their performance against these objectives.

According to the 2016 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, the Black-faced Pitta was once reasonably common, at least on Bougainville. Forty specimens were collected there before 1938.

Two research positions have been advertised to join the Water Research Laboratory (WRL), UNSW Sydney.  The advertised positions will further expand WRL's award winning research expertise in environmental science and engineering.One position is focused on climate change in estuaries (2 years

Vanuatu is a stronghold of biodiversity in the Pacific islands region and there are many sites throughout the country that have high conservation value owing to their role as key habitats for vulnerable and endemic species...In this backdrop, a national workshop for protected area stakeholders wa

The Fiji Outrigger Beach Resort is working closely with the local community and stakeholders to create a conservation area in front of the resort, imposing a fishing ban.

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These Protected Area learning modules were developed by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Union for Conservation of Nature - World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN-WCPA), and The Nature

Knowledge about the status and trends of the world’s remaining wetlands is very patchy and limited.

Relief could soon be on the way for American Samoa's tuna fleet from the restrictions imposed by the establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Monument.US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to review monument designations going back more than 20-years.