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After training as a traditional hunter and fisherman in his village in Palau as a boy, Noah Idechong has since become a “bit of a legend” in Pacific marine conservation. He has been a government official, an activist, a politician, a legislator, and the founder of a domestic conservation NGO.

PICRC Communications and Outreach Officer Masasinge Hideos and Science Officer / Researcher Dr Louw Claassens recently presented an online lesson on the Palau National Marine Sanctuary for students in Guam, Alaska, Hawaii and American Samoa with Pacific Exchange Network. Hideos and Dr.

As human development spreads ever farther around the world, very few large ecosystems remain relatively intact and uninterrupted by highways, cities or other human-constructed obstacles.

A natural habitat's ability to withstand and recover from damage can be empirically monitored from space—and the method may prove important during upcoming decades of climate and land-use change.

An international team of researchers have developed a method to assess sustainable levels of human-caused wildlife mortality, which when applied to a trawl fishery shows that dolphin capture is not sustainable.

While much research has focused on the striking differences in biodiversity between tropical and temperate regions, another, equally dramatic, pattern has gone largely unstudied: the differences in species richness among Earth's three major habitat types—land, oceans and freshwater.

In this episode, we speak with Dorothy Devine Luana, PNG-based owner of DMS Organics, a galip nut grower and processor, and Nora Devoe, research program manager for a project of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), focused on the potential of the galip nut indust

A Chinese company that dug a channel through mangroves and a coral reef to provide access to a multi-million-dollar resort and casino development on a Fijian island has been fined $FJ1 million ($650,000) by the High Court in Suva. The company was found guilty in April last year of

The Fijian Government will continue working closely with its consortium partners to establish and preserve our coastal marine environment.

Madang's Sumkar signed a conservation deed through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Kamapim Ltd last Saturday to commemorate World Earth Day.