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For the Ninth Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas December 2013, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) commissioned an assessment of the status of biodiversity and conservation in Oceania.

Under the MESCAL project, the objectives of this assessment are to; * Improve understanding of mangrove ecosystem functions, values, key threats, and processes at a local and regional scale;

The Funafuti Conservation Area project has been relatively successful, therefore this report documents the lessons learned as well as providing a useful model for similar marine conservation projects at other sites within the country and around the region.

Data on Palau's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) including information on Ecological conditions of coral-reef and seagrass for marine protected areas in Palau

The taxonomy, distribution, or natural history of comatulid crinoids (featherstars) in Vanuatu. The primary purpose of this study was to collect a target group of these crinoids to be used in molecular phylogenetic studies to assess their taxonomic status.

An introduction to the natural history, societies, conservation and sustainable development of the New Guinea region prepared by CSIRO Australia for the Moore Foundation, 2003 (Section 2 of the Report - The NG challenge)

The Conservation Needs Assessment (CNA) for Papua New Guinea was requested by the government of Papua

Study on Bikini Atoll coral biodiversity resilience five decades after nuclear testing. * List of 28 missing coral species (data of study in 2008 compared to data Wells 1954) * List of total coral species in 1954 and 2008

Under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) - member countries are implementing the PoWPA. This is FSM's Action Plan for PoWPA and Target 11.

This document contains a set of quick guides on each of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The guides provide an overview of the main issues addressed under each target.