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Marine spatial planning is underway now, or starting, in many Pacific Island countries, including Tonga.

In understanding effective marine management, the project aims to support communities in its five partner countries to learn about existing management practices.

In 2015, the Tongan Cabinet embarked upon a National Marine Spatial Planning process, establishing a marine spatial planning technical working group comprising seven Ministries (the “Ocean 7”). One of their tasks was to identify Tonga’s special, unique marine areas.

The Government of Vanuatu has decided to develop an oceans policy, aligning with recommendations from the Commonwealth Secretariat.

This study aimed to determine an economic value1 of seven marine and coastal ecosystem services in Kiribati.

The exclusive economic zone of Tonga, nearly 700,000 km2 of ocean, is 1000 times larger than the country’s land area. Coastal and marine resources provide the Government of Tonga, businesses and households many real and measurable benefits.

This study aimed to estimate the economic value of seven marine and coastal ecosystem services1 in Vanuatu.

Coastal and marine ecosystems provide a variety of ecological functions1 that directly and indirectly translate to economic services with value to humans.

Solomon Islands is composed of almost 1000 islands and has the second longest coastline and the second largest Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Pacific.

In 2014, the Council of Ministers (Decision No. 172/2014) decided to start implementation of, amongst other things, a Marine Spatial Plan for the nation.