The Conservation and Protection Authority (CEPA) budget of K55 million for 2018 to 2028 is aimed at setting up conservation areas and protected ecosystems around Papua New Guinea.
Protected areas policy implementation plan 2018-2028.
This Protected Areas Policy Implementation Plan (PAPIP) aims to guide organizations, agencies and resource-owning communities of Papua New Guinea (PNG) to collaborate and harmonize their sustainability efforts towards developing new protected areas (PA) in PNGAvailable onlineCall Number: [EL]ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0725-1,978-982-04-0726-8 Physical Description: 132 p
A framework for identifying the most vulnerable marine species will boost global conservation and policy efforts against anthropogenic climate change.
Sustainable Forest Management Policy
The draft 2018 Palau Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Policy has the Vision of: Palau enriched by healthy
forests that sustain our culture and livelihoods, expand our economy and strengthen the resilience of our island ecosystems and communities.
Global policy commitments on conservation such as the recent COP 26 declaration on Forest and Land Use are a step in the right direction but policy-makers must be inclusive of indigenous peoples and ensure that any initiatives learn from the long and problematic history of forest conservation, ar
Conservation of Biodiversity in the Pacific Islands of Oceania: Challenges and Opportunities
Pacific Island biodiversity has a notorious record of decline and extinction which continues due to habitat loss and degradation, invasive species, overexploitation, pollution, disease and human-forced climate change. In terrestrial systems, these global and local pressures are more acute because of relatively small land to sea area, high endemism and poor adaptations to resist predation.
Scientists are warning politicians immersed in climate change policy not to forget that the world is also in the midst of a plastic waste crisis. They fear that so much energy is being expended on emissions policy that tackling plastic pollution will be sidelined.
Concerned youths worldwide today delivered a policy vision for policy-makers to address the declining state of the world's ocean.
The underlying drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss are different, though the line between policy to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss is not always so distinct.
With eight months to go before the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), an international survey experiment has found evidence of "overwhelming" support across seven major countries for governments to "do more" to protect the environment.