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Raja Ampat " an island chain in Indonesia"s West Papua province " is world-renowned for its beautiful and unique marine biodiversity. But its marine mammals have not received much attention...Click on the link below to read the full story. 

 Sustainable agriculture practices must be widely implemented in order to stem an alarming loss of biodiversity and to protect endangered species.

Join the International Water Centre (IWC) for the upcoming Water Reform and Governance online training course.

A new report has valued the Great Barrier Reef at A$56bn and warns of vast economic consequences for Australia unless more is done to protect it...Deloitte Access Economics report says reef underpins 64,000 jobs and contributes A$6.4bn to economy each year.Click on the link below t

Biodiversity is a resource, and the global community is working to ensure that benefits from the use of that resource are also used to protect the environments and the people who rely on them.This week, a regional Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) project inception and capacity building workshop l

The Indonesian government can"t restore one of the country"s best coral reefs until it strikes a compensation deal with the insurer of the cruise line that wrecked it, the deputy coordinating maritime minister said this week.Click on the link below to read the full article.

The CCMEA R2R will provide advocacy for closer national, sub-regional and regional cooperation and the sharing of lessons learned and knowledge gained to assist in national adoption of R2R strategies and policies in line with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council-approved Regional R2R Pro

Continued poaching could destroy New Caledonia's dugong population, conservationists have warned.

From 5-9 June 2017, the United Nations Headquarters in New York hosted its first ever oceans conference, attracting thousands of government officials and institutions to discuss implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 on the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans...Arg

A Commonwealth study on ocean governance in the Pacific offers ways to sustainably capitalise on the economic treasures of the ocean...Secretary-General Patricia Scotland discussed the findings of the study at the recent UN Oceans Conference held in New York.