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...this RFP will support inventories, surveys, and research expeditions in regions of the world where species discoveries are more likely to occur and where little or no information is available. We encourage proposals for work in any biome. Click on the link below for further details.

Launched on 27 June, the Barana Nature and Heritage Park is a milestone for community-based conservation in Solomon Islands.

The fate of these islands, and the ensuing disastrous impact on our global environment, lies in the hands of China.Virtually all of the Solomon Islands’ timber is exported to mainland China, and indeed this small group of islands is the country’s second biggest source of tropical logs, after Papu

Meet the Indigenous rangers teaching scientists a thing or two in central WA...The Birriliburu rangers have been managing the area since 2013, continuing a tradition that stretches back 25,000 years. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Traditional Owners are working in partnership with the Queensland Government to ensure the environmental, cultural and heritage protection of the Cape York Peninsula.The future of more than 2 million hectares of protected areas across the Cape York Peninsula is being overseen by a special committ

The world’s fish stocks are in decline and our increasing demand for seafood may be one of the main drivers. But the true extent of the problem is hard to estimate, especially when fishing occurs in the high seas, which lie beyond national jurisdiction and are hard to monitor.

The Deep Sea Mining Campaign, with other environmental NGOs, is asking why the world seems hellbent on mining the ocean floor...The waters around several Pacific nations have been at the forefront of the push to mine rare minerals that mining companies claim can be extracted with minimal damage t

The International Seabed Authority, the UN affiliated body set-up to organise, regulate and control all mineral-related activities in international waters, has been accused of getting in bed with sea bed mining companies. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

There is a call for the United States to do more to help the Marshall Islands, where it conducted nuclear weapons tests more than 60 years ago. A large-scale investigation has found extremely high levels of radiation still persist in much of the country's north.