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The Pacific Community and the United Nations' oceans body have made a formal agreement aimed at saving the world's oceans.The Community's deputy director-general, Cameron Diver, and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's executive secretary, Vladimir Ryabinin, today signed a Letter of I

A recent assessment by the UN concluded that the state of the oceans is failing, with changing balances and declining biodiversity and fish stocks.The UN plans to declare the 2020s the 'Decade of the Ocean', and the Pacific is the first of ten consultation points to work out what exactly it shoul

A major palm oil producer Korindo has been found guilty today (Wednesday) of rainforest destruction and human rights abuses in Papua by the Forest Stewardship Council.

A Pacific environmentalist says temperature rise could leave equatorial Pacific countries without their main protein source.Taholo Kami is calling for more research into how much temperature change reef fish species can sustain.

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an increasingly common way of protecting marine ecosystems by prohibiting fishing in specific locations. However, many people remain skeptical that MPAs will benefit fish populations. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

SPREP is seeking to recruit a Finance and Administration Assistant for the Pacific Ecosystem-base Adaptation to Climate Change (PEBACC) Project -Vanuatu. Click on the link below for further details. 

SPREP is seeking to recruit a Communications Support Specialist to work on a part-time consultancy basis for a period of 13 months. Click on the link below for further details.

SPREP would like to call for tenders from qualified and experienced contractors/consultants/scientists to carryout adaptation actions in Kiribati (Nanikai, Tarawa Atoll). Click on the link below for further details. 

Nestled in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is Kiribati — a country destined to be doomed, and eventually erased, by climate change. Scientists, the United Nations and even its former president, Anote Tong, all agree: The small island home to 116,000 people will be engulfed by rising sea levels.

Among the many threats to ocean health is the sharp decline of large pelagic fish: species such as sharks, swordfishes, marlins, and tuna that roam the open sea and play vital roles as predators and as catch in the recreational and commercial fishing industries, which are multibillion-dollar indu