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Researchers talk of "biological annihilation" as study reveals billions of populations of animals have been lost in recent decades.Click on the link below to read the full story.

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is in the process of identifying 70 inspiring Pacific women to highlight women"s contribution to the region.

Marine protected areas span a range of habitats, including the open ocean, coastal areas, inter-tidal zones, estuaries, and the Great Lakes.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Two University of Rhode Island students are sailing to remote islands in the Pacific Ocean to study any damage to coral reefs from climate change...The Phoenix Islands Protected Area, or PIPA, is one of the last remaining coral wildernesses on Earth.Click on the link below to read the full story.

The Cook Islands is now the largest multi-use marine park in the world. Marae Moana "  spanning a total ocean area of nearly two million square kilometres " became a reality on Tuesday this week.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Last week I had the privilege to be a Fiji Council of Churches representative at the Climate Action Pacific Partnership (CAPP) meeting in Suva.The meeting was part of the preparation for Fiji's presidency of the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference, which will take place from November 6-17 in Bonn,

Efforts to conserve their forests took a new turn for members of the mataqali Nadicake in Kubulau, Bua after the signing of their 99-year forest reserve lease recently.Click on the link below to read the full story.

The United Nations Resident Co-ordinator in Papua New Guinea hopes the incoming government will support a conservation project in East and West New Britain.Click on the link below to read the full story.

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Marshall Islands have used the UN Oceans Conference underway in New York to amplify their long –standing concerns about nuclear contamination and pollution from World War 2 wrecks.

Marshall Islands wants more work done on clearing its oceans of the wrecks and debris of World War II. Foreign Minister John Salik says it is the hope of his administration that the risks posed by such wrecks including unexploded ordinances would be addressed. Original Article below