News

Here is the Third Edition of the Australia and New Caledonia Coral Sea Newsletter, February 2019. Click on the link below to access the full newsletter. 

New Zealand's government is sending two salvage experts from Maritime New Zealand to help with the Australian-led salvage operation, and they're on their way to the country now. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

2019 is Wan Smolbag Theatre’s 30thAnniversary. Several of the current actors were not even born when the group started. ‘Maybe it’s because of the anniversary but I find myself sitting in the theatre,’ says director Peter Walker...Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Environmentalists and villagers are concerned at the lack of urgency to clean up an oil spill in a World Heritage Area in Solomon Islands. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The development has been the centre of controversy after locals complained construction work already underway was damaging the reef and foreshore. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The total amount available for projects funded under this last call for proposals is CHF 134,000. The SGF offers a maximum of CHF 35,000 per project. Click on the link below for further details

For almost a century, the inhabitants of Robinson Crusoe—named for literature's most famous castaway—have known that their island's fragile ecosystem depends on them conserving its unique wildlife. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

 

There’s a big caveat to go along with this news, though. These protected spaces are not distributed evenly across the globe, still falling well below 17 percent in over half of the world's countries, a study from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) says.

SPREP Is Currently Seeking Interest From Suitable Qualified Individuals For The Following Vacancies:

CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE

Working with Pacific island countries to report to the various multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, an objective of the Inform Project is to address the on-going challenge of compiling high-quality, and up to date data on the environment.