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Pacific island countries, including PNG, took part in a blue carbon training which the Australian Government provided last month in Australia.

The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT) recently put out a call for new and renewed membership to the PIRTs Protected Area Working Group (PAWG, part of a multi-tiered effort at rebranding the working group and its focus to take on a more network-oriented role and approach.

A push is on to try to protect two-thirds of the world’s oceans. The so-called High Seas Treaty would deal with all seas outside countries’ territorial limits.

A ceremony near the remote community of Tjuntjunjara has celebrated the dedication of Anangu Tjutaku Indigenous Protected Area, Australia’s third largest Indigenous Protected Area.

A beleaguered global deal to save the environment got a financial boost last week when Germany announced that it was upping its funding for international biodiversity conservation to €1.5 billion (US$1.49 billion) a year — an increase of €0.87 billion — making it the largest national financial pl

An estimated 1.1 million sea turtles were illegally harvested from 1990 to 2020 — but today poaching poses less of a threat to these endangered reptiles. Poaching is less of a threat to the survival of sea turtles than it once was, a new analysis suggests.

More than 1,700 murders of environmental activists were recorded over the past decade, an average of a killing nearly every two days, according to a new report.

Ocean advocate and former rugby league star Kevin Iro has been named the recipient of the 2022 Seacology Prize for his commitment towards the world’s largest multi-use marine park, Marae Moana. The prize is awarded annually to an islander for exceptional achievement in preserving island envi

Researchers have completed 490 dives in an eight-day expedition to collect information on Samoa's coral reefs, fish populations, and water quality. The dives at 36 sites were close to shore in the waters of both main islands, despite bad weather.

Fifty years ago, U.S. scientists launched a satellite that dramatically changed how we see the world.