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The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has opened nominations for the 2026 Champions of the Earth award – the UN’s highest environmental honour – this year focusing on leaders at the forefront of caring for the ocean, an ecosystem essential to life on Earth that is increasingly under strain.

The study, just published in Conservation Science and Practice, examined changes in protected areas between 2010 and 2022, and found that 160 threatened Australian species have close to no habitat protected.

On paper, the sea is increasingly protected. Governments have designated vast marine protected areas (MPAs) and pledged to conserve 30% of the ocean by 2030. Maps shaded in reassuring blues now circulate widely. Yet the reality offshore often looks much the same as before.

A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN environmental initiative is underway in Kouaoua, New Caledonia, aimed at mitigating the ecological damage caused by invasive deer populations.

The MOF PKNU Doctoral Scholarship Program supports outstanding doctoral candidates in fisheries– sciences by strengthening academic expertise and research capacity.

A recent assessment by the Asian Development Bank finds that Guadalcanal’s rivers in the Solomon Islands face growing pressure from logging, agriculture, and urban development, threatening biodiversity and water quality.

Scientists have documented century-old corals and fragile deep-sea life on a previously unexamined seamount in the South Pacific. This newly documented site reclassifies the region as a protected ecosystem and raises immediate stakes for whether industrial fishing can return.

The consortium partners are seeking an experienced Project Coordinator to lead the coordination, strategic alignment and effective implementation of the project.

WWF is seeking an exceptional, highly motivated, and mission driven candidate to lead the new high-visibility Solomon Islands CRR Project funded by the GFCR.

WWF is seeking an exceptional, highly motivated, and mission driven candidate to join the new high-visibility Solomon Islands CRR Project funded by the GFCR.