Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has thanked the France government for giving over K400 million (US$1.5 million) for forest conservation in his country. “I want to appreciate France President HE I.
French Polynesia (also known as the Islands of Tahiti) has served as home to the world’s largest marine sanctuary for 2 decades.
French Polynesian President Édouard Fritch recently committed to conserving 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) of the ocean by creating a new large-scale marine protected area and establishing artisanal fishing zones around each of its 118 islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
World leaders met on France’s Atlantic coast Friday to discuss protecting the planet’s oceans from threats such as overfishing and plastic pollution, and finding fairer ways to manage the seas...French President Emmanuel Macron initiated the three-day summit in the port city of Brest with the sup
The French Polynesian government says by 2030 it plans to create a marine sanctuary covering half a million square kilometres in the south-east of the territory. President Edouard Fritch announced the marine sanctuary at the One Ocean Summit in France.
A coral reef site in pristine condition has been opened to the eyes of the world in French Polynesia by a series of photos for UNESCO taken by Alexis Rosenfeld.
Marine explorers have discovered a "pristine" 3km (2-mile) coral reef at depths of 30m (100ft) off the coast of Tahiti, French Polynesia. It is one of the largest discovered at that depth, says the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which led the mission.
It was the most ambitious and logistically challenging island restoration project to date. The aim in 2015: to turn some of the world’s rarest birds back from a path to extinction by removing introduced predators from remote French Polynesian islands.
The Vanuatu government is unhappy with France after French fishing vessels were spotted fishing illegally near Aneityum, and the Matthew and Hunter islands.
Environmental groups in French Polynesia say they have lodged a complaint about a Spanish-flagged ship, which they say carried sharks in defiance of a ban on such transport.
