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18 September 2020 
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World missing all targets to save nature, UN warns
Countries are set to miss all of the targets they set themselves a decade ago to preserve nature and save Earth’s vital biodiversity, the United Nations said Tuesday.Humanity’s impact on the natural world over the last five decades has been nothing short of cataclysmic: since 1970 close to 70 percent of wild animals, birds and fish have vanished…
NATIONAL NEWS
Vanuatu - Improving Conservation And Sustainable Management Of Coastal And Marine Biodiversity In Vanuatu
Senior representatives from eight Government Departments met in Port Vila yesterday for the first meeting of the Pacific-European Union Marine…
Fiji - Experts call for stronger management of marine resources
With reports of increased pressure on Fiji’s inshore fisheries due to the COVID-19-induced economic fallout, experts have renewed calls for…
Papua New Guinea - Coronavirus closures threaten future of Papua New Guinea’s only animal rescue centre
From the heat and dust of the city’s noisy, crowded streets, the Port Moresby Nature Park is an oasis, for the city’s residents as well as the…
Cook Islands - Te Ipukarea Society: Mysteries of the deep
As Te Ipukarea Society has argued before, along with many other voices, a moratorium on Deep Seabed Mining empowers the Pacific and builds the…
Palau - Fisheries Protection Trust Fund approaches $3 million
The Fisheries Protection Trust Fund, which is expected to help finance management of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS), has…
Solomon Islands - Experts gather to review first “zero-draft” marine spatial plan for Solomon Island ocean spaces
Thirty national experts in the Solomon Islands gathered for a two- day workshop to review the first-ever zero-draft marine spatial plan for the…
French Polynesia - Marquesas Islands in bid for UNESCO recognition
French Polynesia has tabled its revised bid to make the Marquesas Islands a UNESCO World Heritage list. Its culture minister Heremoana…
Guam - Guam’s coral reefs placed under warning alerts because of heat stress
Coral reefs in Guam and the rest of the Marianas archipelago are facing unprecedented damage because of warmer waters and increased…
Australia - Australia’s plants and animals have long been used without Indigenous consent. Now Queensland has taken a stand
Many products we use each day contain compounds taken from nature. Aspirin, for example, is derived from willow trees. And nanofibres from…
New Zealand - Falcon partly responsible for failure of critically endangered shore plover colony
A hungry falcon played a part in a failed attempt to establish a colony of critically endangered shore birds on Mana Island. In February the…
REGIONAL NEWS
10th Pacific Islands Conference Nature Conservation and Protected Areas
SPREP, PIRT and New Caledonia, event organizers for the 10th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas…
Cutter Completes Multi-Country Patrol for Illegal Fishing in the South Pacific
The Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756) returned to Honolulu Sunday following its nearly two-month patrol supporting the multi-country…
Fisheries bodies should be more transparent in decision-making, not less
The fishing and seafood industries are worth billions of dollars each year globally, and almost every country plays some role in the supply chain…
‘We made the ocean our home’: The islands fighting climate change
There is nothing like certainty in uncertain times. Every September, the northern summer folds into autumn, the southern winter blooms into…
Pacific Islands Forge Ahead on National Environmental Action, Monitoring, and Reporting for Informed Decision Making
The Cook Islands, Niue, Solomon Islands, and Tonga have approved their national State of the Environment (SoE) reports, whilst in…
COVID-19 related Challenges for Protected Areas and Biodiversity in the Pacific Region
The Biodiversity and Protected Areas Programme (BIOPAMA) is conducting a global review of the impacts of COVID-19 on area based…
MIXED NEWS
A new United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Coral Reefs
A new, first of its kind fund to protect coral reefs was officially launched today on the sidelines of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly…
Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species extinction
For once Britain’s favourite naturalist is not here to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on Earth but to issue us all with a stark warning…
Deep-Sea Mining: How to Balance Need for Metals with Ecological Impacts
Slashing humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels will require billions of kilograms of metal: a single wind turbine can contain more than a metric ton of…
It’s Time to Invest in Nature-Based Solutions to Solve the Biodiversity and Climate Crises
At this summer’s Oxford University Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) Digital Dialogues , a conversation between top scientists in the field took a…
Conserving Biodiversity to Mitigate Pandemic Risks
Zoonoses or diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans are not a new threat. In fact, many of the recent pandemic diseases…
Hawaii’s New Decade of Building Coral Reef Ecosystem Resilience
The Hawaii Coral Reef Strategy 2030 emphasizes the inclusion of communities in coral restoration and conservation, and the need to…
Webinar Series: A decision support platform for spatial optimisation planning of forest ecosystem restoration (WePlan – Forests)
The main goal of this series of webinars is to promote the uptake of the science in which the DSP is based by potential users (especially CBD…
Webinar - Assessing Impacts of Deep Sea Mining in the Water Column
In the second webinar of a series being organized by Pew and RESOLVE, a panel of scientific experts will discuss seabed mining’s…
Invitation for Abstract Submission - XV World Forestry Congress, 24-28 May 2021
The World Forestry Congress (WFC) is held every six years…It provides a unique opportunity to strengthen international cooperation with…
Global Survey on Forest Education
For the first time ever, a global survey is being carried out to inventory ongoing activities, key actors, objectives and achievements of…
GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World - One Health
Contribute to shaping the agenda for the post-2020 Biodiversity Framework and the upcoming UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. With…