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The second World War may be decades past, but what it left behind on the floors of the Pacific Ocean is still of great cultural significance and concern, particularly to maritime archaeologists. Click on the link below to read the full story.

A marine conservation who has just returned from an expedition to survey a massive 'garbage patch' in the South Pacific ocean says it's completely devoid of marine life.Click on the link below to read the full story.

A team from The University of Western Australia has completed a four month research expedition looking for signs of healthy coral reefs in the remote Kimberley.

The Northern Marianas are not the only islands in the Pacific to have a large marine protected area that restricts industrial fishing...Our Mariana Trench Monument Islands Unit is about 42,000 square kilometers and covers about 5% of the US EEZ around our islands.Click on the link below to read t

The small Pacific nation of the Cook Islands passed legislation last week to create one of the world's largest ocean preserves...7,000 times its land size

Big reductions in no-take marine protected areas are being considered, going beyond those recommended by an earlier federal government review.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Global biodiversity loss is a critical environmental crisis, yet the lack of spatial data on biodiversity threats has hindered conservation strategies1.

The Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards will be presented in October 2018 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at the 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP13).Click on the link below for more information and details.

A workshop which aims to enhance the capacity of Pacific nations to share and access data relating to the region's biodiversity was held at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) campus this week.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

...on the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, conservation organisations and mangrove specialists worldwide highlight the multifunctional multiple benefits of the practice of "natural regeneration" of mangroves. Click on the link below to read the full stor