Papua New Guinea has announced the establishment of two new marine protected areas (MPA) off the east coast of New Ireland Province. It covers 16,000 square kilometres, double the reserved marine area of what previously existed in PNG.
The 28th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Vanua-Tai Network held in Luganville, Santo, from September 25 to 29, 2023 identified challenges faced by coastal communities and formulated resolutions to address them.
Efforts should be directed towards addressing a lack of accountability in governing mangrove marine protection areas (MPA), experts said at the ongoing fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress in Canada.
The sea has already swallowed the village graveyard in Togoru, Fiji, and long-time resident Lavenia McGoon is dreading the day it claims her house. She piles old rubber car tyres under the coconut trees that line the beachfront, hoping this makeshift seawall will at least buy some time.
Saqani village is located on Natewa Bay in Cakaudrove Province, on Fiji’s second-largest island of Vanua Levu. The effects of climate change and rising sea levels on Saqani village and coastal communities across Fiji are wide-ranging; many of whom depend on the ocean and its ecosystem as a k
Fiji is steadily introducing sustainable harvesting regimes to manage the health of vulnerable marine species in Fiji. Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says the five-year ban on Beche-de-mer is in favor of a set harvesting window.
Fiji will be highlighting the nexus between oceans and climate change at COP26, and its impact on vulnerable coastal communities.
The villagers of Namatakula in Sigatoka will soon benefit from a nature-based seawall that will cost more than $38,000...Minister for Waterways, Doctor Mahendra Reddy says like other coastal communities in Fiji, Namatakula Village faces coastal erosion, along with increased impact from extreme we
Coastal communities around the world are facing increasing threats from tropical cyclones. Climate change is causing rising sea levels and bigger, more frequent storms. Many coastal communities are pondering what to do.
Those who live on the islands and atolls of the southwestern Pacific Ocean are exposed to rising seas and severe storms like almost no one else on Earth, and yet only a fraction are insured against the growing threat of climate change-related ecosystem, human, and economic losses.
