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Marine ecosystem restoration...is an emerging field that seeks to move ecosystems to healthier states, often with the goal of increasing their ability to provide ecosystem services. Click on the link to read the full article. 

The United Nations Development Programme today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with an academic institution and stakeholders as partners for delivery of the Fiji Ridge to Reef Project.Click on the link below to read the full article. 

When they first set out to follow grey reef sharks around the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Darcy Bradley and her colleagues intended to survey their movement in the protected waters there. What they found was a disturbing development for the Pacific island nation.

Ben van Beurden says ‘another Brazil in terms of rainforest’ will help achieve UN target. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Protecting and restoring forests would reduce 18% of emissions by 2030 and help to avoid global temperature rise beyond 1.5C. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

In this paper, we explore the required functionality of a generic model of the effects of climate and land-use changes on wetlands ecosystem services worldwide. Click on the link below to access the full paper.

Now that the trials are complete, we can only look forward to the coming months, when we’ll receive news on how the system is performing. Click on the link to read the full article.

SPREP is seeking applications from interested experts for the above-mentioned tender. Click on the link below for further details.  

SPREP is seeking the interest of suitably qualified persons for the following Vacancy Re-Advertisement:

ISLAND & OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS

Dr Kathy MacKinnon, a British zoologist, has won the Midori Prize for Biodiversity, a prestigious conservation award. Click on the link below to read the full article.