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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.

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

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

Oceans mean the whole world. They provide us food. They offer shelter to many species that enable life to exist on earth. They protect us from the impacts of climate change. Unfortunately, we are exploiting them, pushing ocean ecosystems to their limits.

Protected Area managers face enormous challenges: a lack of resources, invasive species, poaching, and development to name to just a few. Now along comes a threat that is bigger than all the previous ones and even interacts with most of them.

MPAs, which include marine reserves, sanctuaries, parks, and no-take zones, are areas designated to protect marine species and habitats from both global and local threats...a new global study demonstrates that widespread lack of personnel and funds are preventing MPAs from reaching their full pot

Each part of the world faces specific vulnerabilities to climate change and has different opportunities to mitigate the effects and build resilience in the 21st century. With the ratification of the Paris Agreement, many countries have acceded to act in combatting climate change.

The Ministry of Forestry has developed a program that will strengthen sustainable forest management and conservation for those communities affected by disaster and climate change.