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Protected Areas Working Group: enhancing regional coordination in the Pacific
08.11.2018
IUCN Oceania Regional Office (ORO) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) have convened the latest gathering of the Protected Area Working Group (PAWG) of the Pacific Island Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT) in Suva...
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BIOPAMA holds joint workshop in Tuvalu
01.11.2018
BIOPAMA regional observatory (resource-hub) recently held a joint workshop with the Tuvalu Department of Environment to collate and improve protected area data.
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Fijian appointed Director of IUCN’s Global Ecosystem Management Programme
29.10.2018
IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, the world’s largest environment network, has appointed Fiji national Radhika Murti as one of its youngest directors.
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Fiji's special, unique marine areas report launched
17.09.2018
On Friday 14th of September, Ms Sandeep K. Singh, Director of the Department of Environment from the Ministry of Waterways and Environment, launched a report describing Fiji’s Special, Unique Marine Areas (SUMA).
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Marine spatial planning – the way forward to a healthier ocean
12.09.2018
With the aim to increase understanding key aspects of marine spatial planning (MSP) in the Pacific region, more than eighty participants from governments, NGO stakeholders and partners gathered in Nadi, Fiji on 11 September, 2018 for the Pacific Regional Peer...
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Pusiju community lights up
06.08.2018
IUCN, in partnership with the Governments of Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, and Spain recently supported Sirubai Voko Tribe Association, with a solar project.
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Gift of mangroves: Nature's nursery
01.08.2018
I grew up in a remote rural area of Northern Vanua Levu, Fiji’s second largest island. Due west from the International Date Line, across the Somosomo Strait, set between Taveuni Island and Vanua Levu, in an area commonly known as Ucunivatu lies tranquil...
Minister Ham Lini and Officers from Climate Change, Foreign Affairs, SPREP, and representatives from IUCN holding the newly launched technical marine reports. Photo: MACBIO Project

Protecting Vanuatu's ocean: two more building blocks in place
24.07.2018
Vanuatu is leading the Pacific, in terms of ocean management. It has led a shifting focus which is recognising that 98% of this nation is sea whilst only 2% is land. Vanuatu is the first country in the region to have an integrated, holistic...
The "Blue Hole" in the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System Photo: IUCN / Elena Osipova

Second largest reef on Earth off ‘danger list’, following IUCN’s advice
26.06.2018
Manama, Bahrain, 26 June 2018 (IUCN) – The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System – the world’s second largest coral reef system after the Great Barrier Reef – has come off the List of World Heritage in Danger, following the advice of the International Union for...
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The journey of Cook Islands: Marae Moana
26.06.2018
It is common for many Pacific islands to be considered too small to even feature on many global maps, yet despite this, one Pacific island nation is proving to be so large in heart and conviction their presence will not be denied, whether or not they are...