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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.

Measuring the effectiveness of the marine spatial planning (MSP) process in Kiribati was the focus of a three-day national workshop held recently in Tarawa.

This MOOC addresses the topic of community-centred conservation: understanding who communities are, how their knowledge and livelihoods influence conservation, how to encourage favourable behaviours, how to engage them in the management of protected areas, and how to evaluate their contribution.

This course introduces the concepts of biodiversity and ecosystem services and explores the crucial role of biodiversity in sustaining agrifood systems. It also analyses the global status of biodiversity, the drivers of its decline and the contribution of agrifood systems to biodiversity loss.

National Geographic Pristine Seas begins an expedition this week in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) to provide critical marine biodiversity data for advancing the country’s commitment to ocean management.

The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, has pledged to put an extra half a million square kilometres of Australia’s ocean out of reach of fishers and drillers in a step conservationists hope will “right the wrongs” of an Abbott-era downgrade of marine protection.

The Indo-Pacific is the largest marine biogeographical region on Earth and a global center of marine biodiversity. Nevertheless, there are gaps remaining in our understanding of the diversity, distribution, and endemism of many animal groups in this vast area, especially in relation to sponges.

On a quiet afternoon in 2009, after a game of touch rugby, Manoa Duwai sat down to eat. In front of him was a bowl of rice and cup of tea – and no fish. When he later went to the reef along the coastline of Naidiri, all he found was undersized fish struggling to survive.

As Pacific shorelines face the increasing threat of rising sea levels and associated coastal erosion and submersion risks, the community of Ouvéa is launching a grassroots defense.

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