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Winrock International Solomon Islands’ Community Engagement Team have reached out to Bina and Kwaibala communities and surrounding areas in preparation for the roll-out of river catchment management and forest protection activities.

WWF, the Ministry of Environment and other stakeholders will today launch its Dreketi River and Estuary Shark and Ray Survey report.

At the upcoming CBD, countries are expected to reach an agreement to protect 30 percent of the world’s oceans and land by 2030. But which land is protected, as part of this agreement, matters immensely.

The problem with plastic waste just got more complicated—and so did the effort to stanch its flow into the world’s oceans. Rivers are the primary conduits for plastic waste to the seas.

Leading scientists working across Australia and Antarctica have described 19 ecosystems that are collapsing due to the impact of humans and warned urgent action is required to prevent their complete loss.

A team of researchers from several institutions in France and China has conducted a decade-long study of the degree of human impact on river systems around the world over the past two centuries.

Mangrove ecosystems are at particular risk of being polluted by plastic carried from rivers to the sea.

Both biodiversity and the people in river-associated communities are under severe stress the world over. Across the globe, 30% of freshwater fish are classified as being at risk...Populations of river fish are threatened by pressures on land and water resources.

A “visionary” new regional park along the banks of the lower Wairau River will be the first of its kind in Marlborough...Committee chair Nadine Taylor said the project was visionary and would safeguard and strengthen the natural values of Marlborough’s iconic Wairau River.