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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.

Protected area managers and stakeholders in Vanuatu have completed training in open-source Geographic Information System software...During the training participants learnt how to import, style, label and manage data, create their own protected area data and create professional maps.

The IUCN Program on African Protected Areas and Conservation (PAPACO) have launched a new Masive Open Online Course (MOOC) on ecological monitoring. The course is made of 4 modules and can be done in 8 weeks, at your own pace. It is completely free, from the enrolment to the certificate.

Initial groundwork to assess the health of coral and fish communities after Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston in the Northern Lau Group started this week.The program, which will also include the island of Yacata, on the border of Northern Lau and Cakaudrove

This year we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a declaration that provides a universal framework for the dignity and wellbeing of indigenous peoples everywhere.

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The Secretariat of the Pacific regional Environment Programme invites applications from suitably qualified individuals for the following vacant positions, to be based at SPREP headquarters in Apia, Samoa:

1) Director - Climate Change

2) Climate Change Adaptation adviser

A new training program implanted by FAO for Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management in Fiji was recently announced.

Eight communities on the island of Savai’i in Samoa have decided to continue forest conservation and have agreed to five year management plans (2017-2022) for three Community Conservation Areas.

Last month, the South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands officially designated a 50-nautical mile buffer zone around its islands in which all commercial fishing is now off-limits. All together, the buffer zones total an area of more than 300,000 km2.

Palau has a rich heritage of conservation...In 2003, the Palau Protected Areas Network (PAN) was created to conserve Palau's unique biodiversity and culture, and is the country's