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Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI) has commissioned a contract with American company Woolpert to undertake LiDAR mapping work of the land and marine areas up to 35 metres depth across the Cook Islands...The current budget for the project is approximately $4 million and is funded by the New Zealand

Vuri Forest Conservation Area in Babatana Ward, South Choiseul Province has become the 5th Legal Protected Area in Solomon Islands after receiving its certificate of registration on Wednesday...Vuri is one of the six tribal groups working under the Babatana Rainforest Conservation Project (BRCP).

Growing up in Samoa, Mario Esera would spend weekends fishing on reefs with his father. With minimal supplies—not much beyond a cooler of water and ice—they would pass the days catching their fill of fish. During these trips, Esera learned to identify a range of marine species.

The Marine Stewardship Council, which certifies fisheries under its blue tick sustainability label, has ordered an independent investigation into allegations of shark finning on tuna vessels in certified Pacific fisheries...A report by the UK charity Shark Guardian with CNS Gl

A proposed FY 2022 supplemental budget bill may be able to accomplish what a stand-alone House bill to change the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS) could not, and that is to change the fundamental approach to the concept of the PNMS.

A new online platform has been launched to raise awareness and inspire action by non-government organisations, local communities and businesses to protect, sustainably manage and restore areas of land and water...Today’s new Nature Commitments Platform, launching in the wake of the Inte

Malekula’s Marine Turtle Community Conservation is making a difference in concerted efforts to save Vanuatu’s sea turtles. “We have to do everything we can to save sea turtles in the country,” Noel Kaibaba of Bamboo Bay, Malekula said.

There have been more sightings of Samoa’s endangered national bird the manumea in two different sites of the Uafato rainforest on the east coast of Upolu. The sighting of the manumea (Didunculus strigirostris) and recording of their calls were made by two teams while doing field sur

Global biodiversity assessments require the collection of data on changes in plant biodiversity on an ongoing basis.

Scientists hope an ambitious agreement to arrest species extinction will be finalized in China later this year, but the country’s pandemic response puts that in doubt...They say the delay to the agreement, which aims to halt the alarming rate of species extinctions and protect vulnerable ecosyste