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As human activities increasingly threaten biodiversity, areas devoid of intense human impacts are vital refugia. Click on the link below to access the full article.

Three new scientific papers describe methodologies for working with automatic identification system, or AIS, signal data, and what the information reveals about global fishing activities. Click on the link below to read the full article.

Disgruntled landowners on Santa Cruz, Temotu Province, on Wednesday faced up to an Asian logger, destroying a temporary bridge the logger built some six kilometres into the forest. Click on the link below to read the full article

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces approval of a marine conservation plan (MCP) for American Samoa. Click on the link below for further details.

The Fisheries Ministry has established an Inshore Fisheries Management division to look at a holistic approach to manage fisheries. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Plastic pollution is a major problem in Samoa and the Pacific region. But just how bad is it? Click on the link below to read the full article. 

These creatures have a pretty bad reputation on film, but here’s why we should think of them as friends. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Poaching renders many of the world’s marine protected areas ineffective. Because enforcement capacity is often limited, managers are attempting to bolster compliance by engaging the latent surveillance potential of fishers.

The third edition of the Newsletter of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Oceania (2018) is now available. Click on the link below to access the newsletter. 

The Palau Pacific Resort (PPR) has been a long time champion of Palau's environmental conservation efforts...Click on the link below to read the full article.