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The Senate on Monday approved a bill that expanded the number of protected areas in the country...It would bring 92 new areas, including six internationally-recognized natural sites, under the protection and management of the country"s landmark National Integrated and Protected Areas Sy

Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism - this theme has been chosen to coincide with the observance of 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in its Resolution 70/193 and for which the Unite

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Solomon Island"s first ever national conservation initiative has been declared as The Arnavon Community Marine Park (ACMP) last week.

A local Non-Government Organisation (NGO) Ecological Solutions Solomon Islands (ESSI) has received a small grant from Global Green Grants Fund.

Applications are invited for the position of Research Fellow in the School of Marine Studies at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Islands. We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent training and expertise in fisheries/aquaculture genetics.

Habitat destruction and infectious disease are dual threats to nature and people. The potential to simultaneously advance conservation and human health has attracted considerable scientific and popular interest.Click on the link below to read the full article.

MPAs are generally designed to protect the habitats and biodiversity of today. Where there is a coral reef, for example, or where there is a particular species of interest, we design an MPA around it.

Lagoons have always fascinated me. The size, shape, and length of a lagoon " and the number of channels that connect inner lagoonal waters with the open ocean " influence the types of coral communities that form within.Click on the link below to read the full blog.

Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn group is one of the world"s most remote places, an uninhabited coral atoll, is also one of its most polluted...Marine scientists have found the tiny landmass in the Pacific to is covered by 18 tonnes of plastic -  the highest density of anthropogen