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Ecological collapse and species loss threaten humanity as much as climate change. Conservationists say we're not listening.Click on the link below to read the full article. 

While IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee grabs the headlines, shipping has yet to play any role in drafting a new international treaty that could redefine how we use the oceans.

This week, the Foundation, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) and the University of Newcastle launched a project to tackle the issue of shipwreck pollution. Click on the link below to read the full article.

Naturally occurring super corals in Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu, are surviving under ocean conditions that many predicted would decimate all coral reefs on the planet,...Click on the link to read the full article. 

The buoy will measure carbon dioxide and other important seawater characteristics within the bay’s vibrant tropical coral reef ecosystem. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The UK government is commemorating International Biodiversity Day 2019 by releasing a new tranche of funding for conservation projects. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

This year’s celebrations of the International Day for Biological Diversity, on 22 May 2019, focused on biodiversity as the foundation for our food and health and a key catalyst to transforming food systems and improving human health. Click on the link to read the full statement. 

Microplastics are in our salt, our food, and in us. The Pacific Ocean garbage patch is over twice the size of Texas and eight million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean daily. Click on the link to read the full article. 

The United States of America, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia, as Pacific nations, jointly reaffirm our interest in a free, open, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.

The creation of a new category of private land in Queensland by the state government has been condemned as bad legislation by the Member for Gregory and others. Click on the link below to read the full article.