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Research scientist Jennifer Lavers has spent weeks sifting through the world's waste on two remote sets of islands — and what she has found could have alarming consequences for wildlife. In 2017, many were shocked to learn the shores of uninhabited Henderson Island in the South Pacific

Solomon Islands Government has reinforced its commitment, through the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR), to the development and sustainable management of its tuna resources as a top priority – and called for the involvement of the public to make it a reality. The Minister for

After decades of focus from the world’s governments, media and think tanks, most people now understand what climate change is and the impacts it implies to the future of humanity. Far fewer understand that the danger posed by biodiversity decline is every bit as serious.

Germany helped launch a new billion-dollar fund on Wednesday to tackle rapidly depleting global biodiversity, as countries missed key land and marine conservation targets but prepare to ramp up efforts in the decade ahead.

At the upcoming CBD, countries are expected to reach an agreement to protect 30 percent of the world’s oceans and land by 2030. But which land is protected, as part of this agreement, matters immensely.

Despite lingering tensions among environmentalists and loggers, a plan to launch the largest forestry experiment in the United States — and perhaps the world — last month cleared a major hurdle.

The Commonwealth Secretariat has launched an online database to help member countries be aware of and access more than $170 million of international funding available for ocean-related projects...Both the website and handbook were designed specifically to support the work of the Commonwealth Blue

The tuna-rich nation of Solomon Islands has used this year’s World Tuna Day to reflect on the importance of tuna to the economy and lives of locals...Looking at tuna as a national asset offers people hope as they face uncertain times and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the supervising mi

Port Moresby Nature Park joined the global community in celebrating the International Day for Biological Diversity on Saturday to raise awareness on the importance of protecting biological resources and global biodiversity that shape the environment.

When we think about heritage, we often think about the latte villages, slingstones, the handprints on the walls of the Litekyan caves, and the pictographs in the Gadao cave, all of which are important symbols of CHamoru cultural identity.