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Regardless of where we live, all of us depend upon healthy ocean ecosystems: either as
a source of food or revenue, or as a key shaper and regulator of climate and weather.
This dependency and the need to embrace sustainable development led nations of the
world to agree to a series of high-level political commitments for marine conservation
and marine protected areas. The World Summit on Sustainable Development, the 5th
World Parks Congress, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the G8 Group of

This guide is intended to provide a summary of the steps to develop wetland management planning
processes. Improved understanding of how to use these principles and planning steps will help achieve
more effective conservation and thus wetland wise use.
This summary guide has been prepared to help managers of sites listed under the Ramsar Convention
on wetlands as well as all other types of wetlands. It provides a summary of Ramsar's Handbook 16
Managing wetlands : Frameworks for managing Wetlands of International Importance and other

In this, the sixth and final volume in this series, Jenny Whyte and her colleagues at the Foundation of the Peoples

At the outset, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the Government of French Polynesia for the warm welcome, and for graciously hosting us in your beautiful country.
I would also like to thank the Blue Cradle Foundation and collaborating partners for organising the Tiaki Moana Summit and Workshop on ‘Other Effective Area based Conservation Measures (OECM).Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1 p.

Last year brought both successes and disappointments in global efforts to tackle the triple planetary crisis: the crisis of climate change; the crisis of nature and biodiversity loss and desertification; and the crisis of pollution and waste.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 32 p.

The world’s biodiversity – the species, ecosystems and ecological processes that compose the natural world – are of incalculable value to humanity.

The importance of strengthening ecological coherence and resilience as necessary
conditions for both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development has
attracted growing attention in recent years in a wide range of conservation and
development fora. The World Summit on Sustainable Development, that was
held in Johannesburg in September 2002, adopted the goal of securing by 2010 a
significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss. In setting out how
this can be achieved within the context of sustainable development, the

Wetlands contain biodiversity of exceptional conservation significance, comprising many unique ecosystems and a wide array of globally-threatened species. At the same time they typically form essential components of local, national and even regional economies, as well as underpinning the livelihoods of adjacent human communities.

A rap song about protecting our coral reefs from pollution and explosive fishing methods. Coral reefs gives us life and protect us.

Addressing unsustainable resource use and environmental degr adation is a central challenge for people of the Pacific. Many programs, past and present, have grappled with such issues as nature conservation, climate change, sustainable use of marine and land based resources, and waste management. Some crucial lessons have been emerged from this recent history. Firstly, natural resource management (NRM) programs in the Pacific Islands (and elsewhere) generally have a much greater chance of