Pacific Sea Turtle Conservation, Monitoring and Surveying, Pacific BioScapes Programme - Regional Activity

Through BioScapes, turtle extinction risk assessments from the Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) programme will be utilised to develop regional threat reduction activities for five species of marine turtles. National turtle monitoring coordinators will be established to improved national monitoring and awareness raising for turtle conservation. A network of long-term turtle nesting survey sites will be established in selected Pacific Island countries.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1 p.

Mareva and the Sea

Join Mareva and her community as they learn about marine spatial planning in the Pacific. In this comic book, they witness a ship running aground and damaging their local reef. Then they become motivated to speak up about protecting their island and the ocean around it!ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-1379-5,978-982-04-1380-1Physical Description: 40 p. : ill. 29 cm

Responsible marine wildlife viewing guidelines: a guide to industry best practice for viewing marine wildlife in the Pacific.

This guideline provides practical, science-based information for tourism operators and tourism regulators who want to offer the best possible experience to their customers, while conserving species and habitats and making a positive contribution to local communities.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Project Wild - Tongan Whistler

ABC, Project Wild visits Tonga to witness the efforts by three ladies, from the Vava'u Environmental Protection Association (VEPA) to save the Tongan Whistler (an endemic bird to Tonga), by eradicating rats with bait stations and removing other food sources such as the Invasive weed - Lopa.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 5 minutes, 3 seconds

Oceania Support Centre for Technical and Scientific Coordination (TSC) : Under the Convention on Biological Diverstiy

At the fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 4) of the Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD), the Parties selected 18 regional organisations spanning the globe in a multilateral push to bolster the
implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, also known as the Biodiversity Plan,
through science, technology, and innovation. These centres will bring the Parties to the CBD closer to halting and
reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme was endorsed

Best Practice for Tourism Interaction with Turtles, Pacific BioScapes Programme - Vanuatu

The Pacific BioScapes Programme is providing support to produce best practice guidelines and a code of conduct for tourism operators to guide how they can interact appropriately and safely with turtles in Vanuatu.
Through BioScapes, the Vanuatu Environmental Science Society is consulting with stakeholders and the government, and reviewing other global and national criterias to produce the new guidelines.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1 p.