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Plastic gathered from remote corners of the South Pacific Ocean, including nesting areas of New Zealand albatrosses, has confirmed the global threat of plastic pollution to seabirds.

National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa is seeking to fill seats on its advisory council, which represents the public’s interests in sanctuary matters and provides advice to the sanctuary superintendent. The advisory council is composed of 17 voting members and 8 non-voting members, who

Vaiusu residents have begun to clear a patch of their coastline for a mangrove replanting project in a bid to mitigate the effects of climate change long-term. The three-year project will also assist families who live on the coastline and depend on the sea for their livelihood.

Coastal fisheries in the Pacific Islands have become a food and livelihood lifeline to many people who have lost jobs, especially in urban centres and tourism, following COVID-19 lockdowns and border closures.

To calculate the true value of a forest, we need to know how people benefit from it, according to new research published in Nature Sustainability.

Researchers have found “sea rainforests” in deep seas, most of them in the two-thirds of the ocean’s deep waters where no nation has jurisdiction. The 116 coral reefs live mostly between 200m and 1,200m in-depth, with some of them at 2 km underwater.

In this new covid-19 world, environmental and climate crisis defenders are developing new ways to cope and operate under the pandemic constraints.

As the world threatens to near an increase of 1-1.5 degrees C global warming by year 2030, the number of the earth’s lifeforms threatened with extinction has increased, the world’s global watchdog of flora and fauna, the International Union for the Conservation of  Nature (IUCN) said in its

Vanuatu’s longest stretch of coastline (over 110kms) is also home to Vanuatu’s largest biodiversity hotspot: The West Coast Santo Mountain Chain...The Santo Mountain Chain’s stunning plants, animals and high peaks, combined with extreme development challenges are exactly why the Santo Sunset

To the untrained eye they look like worms, but Samoans know these marine creatures as palolo, and they are revered as the caviar of the South Pacific.