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All materials related to the GEF 8 National Dialogue, hosted by the National Environment Service with support from the GEF Secretariat at Edgewater Resort on the 19th & 20th April 2023, including the presentation slides, report and activity sheets will be hosted here.

Protected areas that are active and proposed on Pohnpei main island

Pohnpei

FSM Ridge to Reef Kosrae

State of Environment (SoE) reports provide in-country partners with a process to gather data on current environmental indicators, document their status, and formulate a plan for keeping these indicators on track or developing policies and programs as needed. This SoE Toolkit dataset contains resources that serve as guides to help create up-to-date State of Environment reports.

The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the most comprehensive global database of marine and terrestrial protected areas, updated on a monthly basis, and is one of the key global biodiversity data sets being widely used by scientists, businesses, governments, International secretariats and others to inform planning, policy decisions and management.

This dataset gives an overview of tuna fishing in the Pacific Island countries and territories in terms of: tuna catch (10-year average tonnes per annum); fisheries access fees (5-year average USD per annum); percentage contribution of access fees to total government revenue (5-year average); the total number of people employed in tuna fishing activities in 2020; and the population estimate for each PICT. These data (where available) have been compiled by the Pacific Community and the Fisheries Forum Agency, also in collaboration with Conservation International.

The Marine spaces Act, 1977, Act. No. 18 of 15 December 1977, as amended by the Marine Spaces (Amendment) Act 1978, Act No. 15 of 6 October 1978 states that the exclusive economic zone of Fiji comprises all areas of sea

Global EEZ layer are the layers gathered from gazetted datasets that the Pacific Community (SPC) has received from the project countries. In areas where there are no gazetted datasets provisional layers are being sourced from the Global Marine Regions database (https://www.marineregions.org/).

There are two layers available, he .shp file layer and the .kml layer which are being used by partners and member states in particular FFA for the Regional Fisheries Surveillance Center (RFSC).

Dataset contains training material on using open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to improve protected area planning and management from a workshop that was conducted on February 26-28, 2020. Specifically, the dataset contains lectures on GIS fundamentals, QGIS 3.x, and global positioning system (GPS), as well as country-specific datasets and a workbook containing exercises for viewing data, editing/creating datasets, and creating map products in QGIS.

The National Environment Service issues permits for the export of CITES species out of the Cook Islands. CITES stands for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. 

This report provides information on permits issued by the NES in 2022.

The area in the immediate vicinity of Apia, Western Samoa was studied through the use of air photo interpretations, literature reviews and ground surveys in order to develop an understanding of the processes which influence the coastal and nearshore sedimentary systems. The goal of the study was to provide information on which decisions regarding sand mining and

This report documents the UH monitoring network which provides hydrologic parameters, such as precipitation, streamflow, and aquifer response, in small island developing communities like Tutuila, American Samoa, where water resources are limited. It highlights the collaborative efforts between the University of Hawaii's Water Resources Research Center and the American Samoa Power Authority to establish a new monitoring network for weather, stream gauging, and aquifer data, providing essential information for sustainable water resource management and various applications

The Strandings of Oceania database is a collaborative project between SPREP, WildMe and the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium to record stranding and beachcast data for whales, dolphins and dugongs throughout the Pacific. We use a platform called Flukebook. An account is needed to view or use data within Flukebook but the data is available for download here. You can submit data direct into Flukebook (preferably while logged in) or send a completed data form to SPREP for upload. Guidance on using the database is available :

Presentation on By-catch and Integrated Ecosystem Management (BIEM) - Strengthening turtle conservation and management in the Pacific at the launch of the Pacific Regional Marine Species Programme Action Plan 2022-2026

Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 9 p.

The baselines of the territorial sea of the Republic of the Marshall Islands are set out under Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the DECLARATION OF BASELINES & MARITIME ZONES OUTER LIMITS, made under section 118 of the MARITIME ZONES DECLARATION ACT 2016. The geographic coordinates are also defined under this document.

https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/DEPOSIT/mh…

This are the Exclusive Economic Zone datasets with the length of 200 nautical miles measured from the Territorial Sea Baseline. These are authoritative datasets for the Pacific Island Countries and Territories. Provisional layers has been extracted from the online and freely available datasets under the Marine Regions. Updated as of October 2023.

This dataset has information on coral reef cover and fish in Cook Islands from 1994 to 2013.

The National Seas Act 1977 states that delimitation of boundaries in relation to neighboring states, the offshore seas of the State extend to a distance of 200 miles seaward from the baselines and, unless otherwise specified, shall be deemed to comprise all the waters outside the baselines and within a line proclaimed for the purposes of this section by the Head of State, acting on advice, in the National Gazette.

The Maritime Zones Act 2013 states that the baseline of the territorial sea of Niue is measured from the low-water mark along the coast of Niue, or where there is a coral reef along any part of the coast of Niue, the low-water mark along the outer edge of the coral reef.

The territorial sea comprises those areas of the sea having, as their inner limits, the baseline and, as their outer limits, a line measured seaward from that baseline, every point of which is distant 12 nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline.