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The Pacific is the world"s largest ocean, covering nearly one-third of the Earth"s surface, it defines us as Pacific people, underpinning our livelihoods and way of life.  With this in mind, the coming UN Oceans Conference and Sustainable Development Goal 14 are cruc

As caretakers of the world's largest ocean basin, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) with Members and global partners have committed to four different partnerships for Ocean health.Click on the link belowe to read the full article.

When delegates sit down next week in New York to consider how to ensure the sustainability of the world's oceans there will be a strong Pacific push to focus on the rights of coastal communities.Click on the link below to read the full article and to listen to the interview.

Weeks after the federal budget was handed down there is still uncertainty about future funding for existing Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs).Click on the link below to read the full article.

There is a call for the world to listen to how Pacific coastal communities have managed their areas sustainably...

Different facets of biodiversity other than species numbers are increasingly appreciated as critical for maintaining the function of ecosystems and their services to humans.

The University of the South Pacific community, friends and members of the Fiji conservation community mourned the passing away and honoured the life of Asakaia Balawa Mudunasolevu.

Applications from all nationalities are invited for full-time tenure-track faculty positions in Middle East Technical University, Institute of Marine Sciences (METU-IMS). METU-IMS is the leading international marine science institute in Turkey with a 100% English education and research.

The Northern Negros Natural Park Protected Area Management Board has passed a resolution adopting the user fee system for the Northern Negros National Park and its immediate implementation.

Aichi Target 11 (AT11), adopted by 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2010, states that protected areas (PAs) must be equitably managed by 2020.