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Growing up in Fiji, a nation spanning hundreds of Pacific islands, means growing up with the call of the ocean in your blood — even when you're far from the sea.

A deep sea mapping project will focus on the Marshall Islands as one of several islands in the region to have their ocean floors mapped later this year.

This Wednesday, Air Tahiti unveiled a new livery for its latest ATR 72-600, named Revanui. An aircraft featuring birds endemic to French Polynesia and critically endangered.

The workshop brings together government representatives from Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu, alongside stakeholders from the private sector, civil society organisations, development partners, and regional agencies.

The recent inaugural Oceania Seabird Symposium brought together birders, researchers, government and non-government organisations at Auckland University, New Zealand, to learn more about seabird conservation and monitoring efforts taking place across the region.

A carbon stock and ecological survey on mangroves and seagrass across four Pacific Island countries has now concluded, with results expected to be released in August.

Jack Bakale, the church chairman from the island of Sulufou, in Solomon Islands, has a simple way of describing it.

"For us, it's part of life," he told the ABC from his island home.

"These events are our culture — dolphin calling, and hunting, is our inheritance from God."

On Earth Day 2025, Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata highlighted the National Park of American Samoa as part of National Park Week (celebrated April 19-27), which includes both Earth Day (Tuesday) and Arbor Day (Friday), as well as sharing a few of the related efforts of the House Natural Resources

Illegal fishing activities in the remote waters of West Coast and North West Santo have become a growing concern for local leaders and communities, prompting calls for greater monitoring and enforcement.