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...the government last week approved five long-awaited management plans covering 44 parks. The new plans open an area almost the size of Japan to commercial and recreational fishing... Click on the link below to read the full story. 

Man-made sea walls are not the best form of coastal protection and local conservation organisations have asked that people use mangroves to protect their shoreline.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Paraparaumu College student Maha Fier has been on two trips of a lifetime in one year.

World Water and Forests Day was celebrated in Samoa on Tuesday. The two-day event, themed "Water & Forest Resources for Sustainable Urban Development", was held at the Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi Convention Centre.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

Researchers with the EU-funded TRECKQUITY project have developed a new approach for tracking the achievement of multidimensional social equity in the world"s protected areas.Click on the link below to read the full article.

The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) formally announces the call for applications for the SCB Graduate Student Research Fellowship Awards (GSRF). Click on the link below for further details. 

By 2048, the Asia-Pacific region may not have any fish stocks left.

With its white sands, clear waters and jutting mountains, Lord Howe Island is a slice of world heritage-listed paradise in the Pacific Ocean. There's just one problem - it is besieged by rats.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

The global theme for Earth Hour is Biodiversity...WWF-Pacific is focusing on Mangroves for Earth Hour 2018. Mangroves are culturally and economically important to coastal communities in Fiji.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

Human activities are causing an alarming decline in the variety of plant and animal life on Earth and jeopardizing food, clean water and energy supplies, a UN-backed study of biodiversity said on Friday.Click on the link below to read the full story.