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National Geographic Pristine Seas, in partnership with BirdLife International, NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (BirdLife International’s Partner), the Fiji Ministry of the Environment and iTaukei affairs will visit the waters off Gau Island to try and locate Fiji Petrels at sea, in an effort to determine

The Environment Ministry will no longer stand idle and watch the Suva harbor turning into a shipping graveyard, says Minister responsible Mosese Bulitavu.

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Growing up in Fiji, a nation spanning hundreds of Pacific islands, means growing up with the call of the ocean in your blood — even when you're far from the sea.

A deep sea mapping project will focus on the Marshall Islands as one of several islands in the region to have their ocean floors mapped later this year.

This Wednesday, Air Tahiti unveiled a new livery for its latest ATR 72-600, named Revanui. An aircraft featuring birds endemic to French Polynesia and critically endangered.

The workshop brings together government representatives from Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu, alongside stakeholders from the private sector, civil society organisations, development partners, and regional agencies.

The recent inaugural Oceania Seabird Symposium brought together birders, researchers, government and non-government organisations at Auckland University, New Zealand, to learn more about seabird conservation and monitoring efforts taking place across the region.

A carbon stock and ecological survey on mangroves and seagrass across four Pacific Island countries has now concluded, with results expected to be released in August.

Jack Bakale, the church chairman from the island of Sulufou, in Solomon Islands, has a simple way of describing it.

"For us, it's part of life," he told the ABC from his island home.

"These events are our culture — dolphin calling, and hunting, is our inheritance from God."