Fourteen years ago, five Pacific island leaders united for a better Pacific islands region, committing to the Micronesia Challenge, an agreement to effectively conserve at least 30% of the near-shore marine resources and 20 percent of the terrestrial resources across Micronesia by 2020...Since 20
The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT) is a coalition of nature conservation and development organizations, governments, inter-government, donor agencies and community groups created to increase effective conservation action in the Pacific Island Region. It was established in 1998 at the request of Pacific island countries and territories which was voiced at the 6th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in 1997.
The concept of sustainable nature tourism plays a key role in mediating conflicts between tourism and nature conservation, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.
Lord Goldsmith said the UK has a lot in common with the Pacific with shared views on climate, biodiversity and the ocean...The UK has a number of initiatives that will continue to address the climate/ocean nexus following the virtual visit.
The study, which received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) this week, is just one example of how wildlife scientists are now working to understand the impacts of what many are calling the “anthropause”—the dramatic slowdown in human activity caused by the pandemic.
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Nature refuge landholders representing over two million hectares of private protected land are calling on Queensland MPs to increase investment in the underfunded Nature Refuges Program by $24 million per year.
The destruction of ecosystems through human practices such as deforestation is a factor behind the creation of the COVID-19 global pandemic. That is the view of the Samoa Conservation Society Executive Member, Tupaemanaia Dr.
"This report unequivocally tells us that the time to finance nature—for people and for planet—is now." That's how Jamison Ervin, manager of the Global Program on Nature for Development at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), summed up a new study commissioned by Campaign for N
Global concern has risen around the "sustainability" of palm oil in terms of global exportation and the impact on the environment in recent years.
