A multimillion-dollar blue carbon pilot project deal by the Australian government through Conservation International and three communities around the country.
The key purpose of the Tāua e Moana voyage is to deliver ocean health awareness raising messages by the three collaborating organisations. At every island, each organisation has given presentations to the schools.
Chiefs and traditional authorities of Western Santo have successfully concluded a Custom and Conservation Festival this month...With custom stories, dancing, music, cooking, slow food, agriculture, hunting, handicraft, and tabu histories, the Festival, hosted by Elia community, was the first ever
In many protected areas, the distribution of funds for conservation seldom considers the Indigenous population’s views on how the money should be spent. In Fiji, the Indigenous iTaukei people co-manage Vatu-i-Ra Conservation Park, a marine protected area, under traditional rules and values.
The Mt. Goplom Conservation Deed is an important signing, which sets an example for PNG communities to use land rights to preserve the unique biodiversity of the region for generations to come...The signing of this conservation deed ratifies their legal rights to conserve and protect the Mt.
The people of West Coast Santo have rallied against a proposal by a Chinese-owned logging company on their land. Director of Forestry Department, Rexon Vira, explained a Chinese company, Vanuatu Forestry Product Limited, is interested in clearing forests and making wood chips.
A newsly established group known as Sepi Women Inshore Fisheries Initiative that engages women in the Fisheries Sector has been established last month. The Sepi women Inshore Fisheries Initiative comprises of 20 members from the Sepi Village, West Bugotu, Santa Ysabel. This newly form
“PNMS belongs to the Palauan people, ours to benefit from and so if the intent of this bill to open up the marine sanctuary is to aid the economic recovery, we support that but we have to go back to the Palauan people to say, is it really going to benefit us as a people,” said King Sam, Director
Leading up to the meeting of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), conservation and sustainability scientists, practitioners, and policy experts are urging CBD member governments to study and use a newer conservation policy tool known as Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (O
Five Simon Fraser University scholars are among international scientists sounding an alarm over the "pervasive social and ecological consequences" of the destruction and suppression of the knowledge systems of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.