Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI) has commissioned a contract with American company Woolpert to undertake LiDAR mapping work of the land and marine areas up to 35 metres depth across the Cook Islands...The current budget for the project is approximately $4 million and is funded by the New Zealand
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Risk-sensitive planning for conserving coral reefs under rapid climate change
Coral reef ecosystems are seriously threatened by changing conditions in the ocean. Although many factors are implicated, climate change has emerged as a dominant and
rapidly growing threat. Developing a long-term strategic plan for the conservation of coral reefs is urgently needed yet is complicated by significant uncertainty associ-
ated with climate change impacts on coral reef ecosystems.
World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Oceania Newsletter No.3, 2018
The third edition of the Newsletter of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Oceania (2018). IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is the world's premier network of protected area expertise. It is administered by IUCN's Global Programme on Protected Areas and has over 2,000 members, spanning 140 countries.