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Villages that participate in the Save the Manumea campaign run by the Samoa Conservation Society appreciate the messages and are enforcing bans on hunting pigeons...The Save the Manumea campaign was launched in Apia in July 2019 by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Fiame Naomi Mata’

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Pacific Islanders are no strangers to disasters. For millennia, island peoples have coped with and adapted to disasters like tropical cyclones and tsunamis, as well as unpredictable shifts in precipitation patterns, leading to droughts and floods.

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A new study led by ProtectedSeas – an organization aiming to provide open data and monitoring solutions to enhance awareness of and compliance with ocean protection efforts – has found that boaters often cluster along the edges of marine protected areas (MPAs) off the coast of

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Greenpeace is calling on the New Zealand Government to urgently regulate commercial fisheries, following a new report that shows they caught 58 protected sea turtles in the last year alone.

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Not all species are created equal. Some are more important than others. So how do we choose what to protect? Biodiversity is vital for a healthy environment and a healthy planet. Every plant and animal has a role to play to keep its ecosystem healthy.

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Research published in Global and Planetary Change examines the trends and projected frequency, intensity and duration of marine heatwaves (MHWs).

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Over the past 60 years, the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million hectares, a loss that contributed to the more than 60% decline in global forest area per capita.

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More than half of species whose endangered status cannot be assessed due to a lack of data are predicted to face the risk of extinction, according to a machine-learning analysis published Thursday.

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Concerns have been raised by the Colo-i-Suva Parks and Reserves team on the amount of household rubbish discarded by visitors in the forest park.

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Plundering the Pacific for its rich natural resources has a long pedigree...There are worrying signs history may be about to repeat, as global demand soars for minerals critical to the clean energy transition.

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