Aggregate mining plays an important role in Tonga's development, but it must be managed carefully to avoid long-term damage to agriculture, fisheries and natural ecosystems. This guideline and accompany operational manual aim to ensure that quarrying activities are safe, sustainable and respectful of local communities.
By using 50 datasets on benthic coral reefs monitoring, we estimated the temporal trends in the benthic cover of seven benthic categories. We also calculated how certain threats to coral reefs of the Pacific have changed over the last decades. Our results show a complex situation. The overall stability in hard coral cover can be seen as a signal of hope in a context of global decline of hard coral cover. We have put forward various hypotheses, which are not mutually exclusive, to explain this result.
The assessment aligns with the Pacific Coral Reef Action Plan 2021–2030, supporting key action areas
such as capacity building, habitat conservation, and research utilisation. Rather than imposing a uniform
regional model, the recommendations emphasise tailored approaches that reflect national and sub
regional priorities and governance structures, particularly given responsibilities for reef monitoring and
management can vary from community-led to government-driven systems. By enhancing fit-for-purpose
Elinor is a free and open-source monitoring tool that helps users gather, store, share, and use data on environmental governance and management to support more effective area-based conservation.
The Pacific BioScapes Programme is supporting capacity in the Pacific to determine that the presence and populations of key seabird biodiversity is enhanced as envisaged in the Pacific Islands Regional Marine Species Programme 2022-2026 Seabird Action Plan.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1 p.
The Pacific BioScapes Programme is supporting local community monitoring of coastal ecosystem resilience on the islands of Maninita, Taula, Fangasito, Fonua’one’one, Mu’omu’a and Fua’amotu in the Vava’u group. This aims to assess the benefits for biodiversity that occur following the eradication of invasive species.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1 p.
The Pacific BioScapes Programme is strengthening regional and national decision-making processes for sustainable management and use of coastal and marine biodiversity by improving the use of information and communication technologies for data management and analysis. Under BioScapes, The Nature Conservancy is working directly with governments in the Marshall Islands, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk, Yap and Palau.
Protected areas are central in strategies to conserve biodiversity. Effective area-based conservation relies on biodiversity data, but the current biodiversity knowledge base is insufficient and limited by geographic and taxonomic biases. Public participation in biodiversity monitoring such as via community-based monitoring or citizen science increases data collection but also contributes to replicating these biases or introducing new ones.
The Aleipata group of offshore islands have been identified as one of eight Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in Samoa. They are located at the south-eastern end of Upolu Island at 14o3’447.28”S, 171o25’23.84”W (Nu’utele) and 14o4’22.11”S and 171o24’36.17”W (Nu’ulua) offshore. This project updates population estimates and establish baseline data and information on breeding seabirds of the Aleipata offshore islands and investigate the feasibility of future tracking studies of some species.
The introduction of newly established National Forestry Monitoring System (NFSM) will help track and report changes in Samoa’s lush green tropical forests...The NFMS will enable Samoa to track and report changes in forest cover and forest carbon stocks, contributing to sustainable forest manageme
