Palau Bans Live Reef Fish Exports, Bars Company After Regulatory Breach

Palau has banned the export of live reef fish to protect its marine resources and biodiversity. This action follows concerns over the ecological impact of such exports, including the depletion of key reef species. At least one company involved in live fish export has been barred from operating in the country. The move reflects growing efforts in the Pacific to regulate the live fish trade and prioritize sustainable fishing practices.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 26:40

Protected Area Management, Pacific BioScapes Programme - Palau

The Pacific BioScapes Programme aims to increase site level management capacity for the protected areas of Palau. To increase capacity, The Nature Conservancy will provide support to the Protected Area Network Office under the Bureau of Environment of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment and Palau Conservation Society and Division of Maritime Security and Fish and Wildlife Protection under the Bureau of Public Safety of the Ministry of Justice of Palau.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1 p.

Micronesia Ecosystem Score Cards, Pacific BioScapes Programme - Regional Activity

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.

Lessons from Palau to end Parachute Science in International Conservation Research

Conservation science is having a reckoning with parachute science. In the parachute science models, scientists drop into a foreign country with preconceived notions, seeking to validate their assumptions without genuine
engagement with local people, ideas, epistemologies, methodologies,
and knowledges, and leave without giving back to the
place from which they extracted.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 4 p.

The Republic of Palau revised national biodiversity strategy and action plan 2015-2025. Promoting wise development to achieve conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity/

Palau became a signatory to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1998, and on January 6, 1999 the National Congress, the Olbiil Era Kelulau (OEK), ratified the treaty.Available onlineCall Number: [EL]Physical Description: 183 p

Global Biodiversity Information Forum (GBIF) Country Profiles: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna