The Government of Samoa (GoS), IUCN Oceania Regional Office (IUCN-ORO) and the Samoa Umbrella Non-Government Organisation (SUNGO) aim to support sustainable management of marine and coastal ecosystems in Samoa...The Project is looking to engage an in-country national Marine Spatial Planning Proje
The Department of Foreign Affairs, through its Maritime and Ocean’s Affairs Division successfully convened an Oceans and Marine Spatial Planning forum with key national and regional stakeholders...The objective of the forum is to create a platform for regular dialogue amongst and between institut
The present study, commissioned by the French Agency for Biodiversity (Agence française pour la biodiversité, AFB), is part of the "Pacific Biodiversity Blue Belt" project. It covers four Pacific island Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs): French Polynesia (PF), New Caledonia (NC), Wallis & Futuna (WF) and Pitcairn (Pi). These French (PF, NC and WF) and British (Pi) territories are characterised by vast maritime areas and geographical isolation from their home States.
The accumulation of marine litter in the world’s oceans over the past decades has risen. Plastic is ubiquitous, cheap to produce and extremely durable. Every piece of plastic ever produced still exists, therefore much of it has ended up, in the oceans.
IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Oceania Regional Office is inviting applications for a consultancy beginning November 2019 to undertake the role of Scientific Writer to 1.
To conduct, an analysis of all relevant legislation, policies, plan and strategies, local, provincial, national and international, that pertains to the management of Samoa’s Ocean and specifically how it relates to marine spatial planning.
In recent years, stakeholder engagement has been widely recognized as integral to effective marine conservation, marine ecosystem-based management, and marine spatial planning.
MNRE reconfirmed that Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) or Ocean Planning is an important tool for ocean management for the Pacific Island countries where ~98% of the area is ocean, and where livelihoods, food security, cultural wellbeing, and economic dependencies are inter-connected with the ocean.
The atlases for Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu were produced over the last 2 years by GRID-Arendal for the MACBIO project in collaboration with SPREP, IUCN and GIZ.
...the marine environment (temperature, pressure, salinity, light, nutrients, oxygen, currents, physical structures, etc.) and the species that inhabit it vary dramatically with depth.