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Due to recent Covid-19 orders released by the national Control Centre, the Port Moresby Nature Park has put in extra precautionary measures.
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In a paper released in the latest issue of PARKS, The International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation, 35 conservationists compiled a comprehensive account of how protected and conserved areas around the world are being impacted by COVID-19. Protected and conserved areas such
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From a Wuhan, China, “wet market” where freshly butchered meat and live wild animals are sold for food and medicine, the virus likely was transmitted in late 2019 via wildlife to humans.
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The fishing effort in the tuna-rich waters of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) does not appear to have been significantly impeded by the COVID-19 crisis, according to a report prepared by Brisbane, Australia-based resources consultancy MRAG Asia Pacific.
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Weather forecasts have become less accurate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the reduction in commercial flights, according to new research.
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Small island developing nations continue to find ways to navigate toward long-term sustainability.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on across the globe, the linkages between ecosystem degradation and the loss of biodiversity, and the emergence of infectious diseases, was discussed during the final session in the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme’s (SPREP) webinar series “
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With no end in sight to the Covid-19 pandemic, the suspension of 100 percent fisheries observer coverage on all purse seine fishing vessels in the Pacific is set to be extended...Suspension of total fisheries observer coverage in the region was to end on July 31.
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China’s wildlife trade should be thoroughly investigated as part of efforts to uncover the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, say researchers.
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The first comprehensive study of the pandemic shows consumption losses amount to more than US$3.8 trillion, triggering full-time equivalent job losses of 147 million and the biggest-ever drop in greenhouse gas emissions.