Scott Morrison will announce $1 billion over nine years for ground and water programs for the Great Barrier Reef when he visits the area on Friday. The Prime Minister said the $1 billion would extend the federal government’s investment under the Reef 2050 Plan to more than $3 billion.
One of the directors of the Phoenix Island Protected Area Trust said the marine sanctuary is a conservation treasure for the world. The Kiribati Government has announced it's planning to end the protected status to allow commercial fishing within the World Heritage Site's boundaries.
A marine scientist in Hawaii says the Phoenix Islands Protected Area is incredibly strategic in the Pacific, especially in this age of climate change.
The Kiribati Government has decided to open up one of the world’s largest marine reserves to commercial fishing and de-register it as a World Heritage site. The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) spans over 400,000 square kilometres and borders US waters...Former President Anote Tong, who
UNESCO, in partnership with IUCN Oceania, is currently developing the fourth edition of the Pacific Regional World Heritage Action Plan 2021-2025.
Sites containing some of the world's most treasured forests, including the Yosemite National Park and Indonesia's Sumatra rainforest, have been emitting more heat-trapping carbon dioxide than they have absorbed in recent years, a U.N.-backed report said.
The world’s oldest rainforest will join landmarks like Uluru and Kakadu, where First Nations people are custodians of world heritage sites. Eastern Kuku Yalanji people will take formal ownership of the world heritage-listed Daintree tropical rainforest in northern Australia, after the Indige
Australia on Friday avoided having the Great Barrier Reef listed as an endangered world heritage site by UNESCO, despite extensive climate change-fuelled damage to the ecosystem's corals.
After years of climate-worsened damage to its vibrant corals, Australia's vast Great Barrier Reef could this week be added to UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage sites.
A weedkiller banned overseas can be used in the World Heritage Wet Tropics Area in Far North Queensland. Roundup contains glyphosate, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified as a probable carcinogen.
