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The fully funded scholarship provide opportunities for students from developing countries, particularly those countries located in the Indo-Pacific region, to undertake full time undergraduate or postgraduate study at various participating Australian universities and Technical and

The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) has ten fellowships available in its ecological data management training program for Summer 2019. The fellowships are intended for undergraduate, graduate and recent postgraduate students. Click on the link below for further details. 

This study is one of the first of its kind to document the near-immediate response of fishing activity to fine-scale physical ocean conditions over many years, and even changes associated with an El Niño event.

The Nagao Wetland Fund (NWF) is open for applications from Contracting Parties in the Asia and Oceania regions included in the DAC List of ODA Recipients. The NWF is intended to support Contracting Parties in the Asia and Oceania regions on small-scale projects, with a maximum offer of USD 1

...although rats do not originate from Samoa, studies suggest that migration activities in the past introduced these pests to Samoa’s islands with the earliest reports of rats in Samoa dating back to the early 1760’s. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The outlook may seem bleak, but there is a glimmer of hope as cutting edge technologies seek to assist in saving native flora and fauna; restoring habitats to their natural state in the process.

The use of plastic bags has been banned on Makogai island in Lomaiviti...In addition to this, the island was also declared a Marine Protected Area (MPA). Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The National Geographic Society (NGS), in partnership with the IUCN SSC and Fondation Segré, have put out a request for proposals with the main goal of halting further biodiversity decline by implementing species conservation plans for species and groups of species.

Conservationists say these high levels of protection are necessary to safeguard benefits that humans derive from nature—such as the filtration of drinking water and storage of carbon that would otherwise increase global warming.

The proposed development by Walker Corporation, which has been a major political party donor, would include more than 3000 apartments, a hotel, shops and marina on Toondah Harbour in Moreton Bay, south east of Brisbane. Click on the link below to read the full article.