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Mangroves are special trees that grow along coastlines, where land meets the sea. They play a big role in keeping our environment healthy and balanced. But, like many other natural resources, mangroves are under threat.

THE Natural Resource Development Foundation (NRDF), in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT), has successfully conducted a five-day tour guide training program for the rangers of the Babatana Rainforest Conservation Area in Choiseul.

After being extinct in the wild for nearly 40 years, a group of Guam kingfishers have arrived in the Pacific Ocean, where they will play an important role in returning their species to the wild, thanks to the efforts of the Sihek Recovery Program.

Nature-based solutions (NbS) address societal challenges through actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems, benefiting people and nature at the same time.

“Our participants had varying skills and knowledge with some who use GIS daily in their work and others who are yet to do so,” explained Anish Maharaj, the BIEM in-country coordinator with MECC.

In a true display of collaboration and partnership between the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and a Member country to ensure the protection of our Pacific environment, SPREP through the Pacific Regional Invasive Species Management Support Service (PRISMSS)

Civil society organisations called on Pacific leaders to prioritise the ongoing disposal of treated nuclear wastewater from Fukushima and the contentious issue of deep-sea mining during their retreat in Vava’u yesterday.

Chapman Reef, off Au Island on the northwest corner of Lovangi, offered a spectacular example of the amazing of Papua New Guinea's coral reefs.  We had heard rumours that this was the best diving in PNG, even the world! So of course we had to check it out.

As Leaders and Champions of the Ocean headed to Tonga over the weekend for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, there was a gathering of the Pacific Ocean Alliance, organised by the Pacific Ocean Commissioner’s Office (OPOC) in Tonga on 24 August.

Sustainable use of coastal and marine biodiversity through improved management of ‘ridge to reef’ ecosystems and fisheries by-catch is the focus of the By-catch and Integrated Ecosystem Management (BIEM) Initiative project being implemented in Vanuatu in coastal communities in Malekula, Pentecost