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.
A first for the Cook Islands: training on three dimensional ... Specialised training to equip local communities in the Cook Islands to undergo participatory three-dimensional modelling (P3DM) started this week for the district of Vaka Puaikura on Rarotonga.The pur... More detail
