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IUCN has launched a call for experts to serve on the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme Action Component Pacific Regional Advisory Committee (RAC). Click on the link below for further details. 

Despite a fishing ban from December 2020, Palau will allow Japanese fishermen to continue catching skipjack tuna in the Pacific nation's waters. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

A number of countries - including Papua New Guinea, Nauru and Cook Islands - are looking to exploit minerals on the sea floor, and some exploratory projects have already begun. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The island of Hunga Tonga appeared four years ago due to volcanic activity and is rich with biodiversity worth protecting. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Australia has reached its international conservation commitments through Indigenous Protected Areas, creating 3,000 jobs in the process. Will Canada follow suit? Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Few places on our planet remain untouched by humans.The growing global demand for food, fibre, fuels, shelter and freshwater is driving the loss and degradation of natural forests, wetlands, coastal areas and other ecosystems. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Environmentalists fear the grounding of a ship off Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands could bring more damage to a marine protected area. The MV Solomon Trader hit a reef in Kangava Bay off Rennell Island just over a week ago as it was loading bauxite from a nearby

A coalition of 1,600 farmers recently released a line of chocolate bars that promote GMOs as a way to produce more chocolate - and keep the world's supply from running out. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

 ...the marine environment (temperature, pressure, salinity, light, nutrients, oxygen, currents, physical structures, etc.) and the species that inhabit it vary dramatically with depth.

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