Data on Alien Invasive Species in Palau including scientific and annual reports, reviews and policies
This dataset hosts Palau's State of Environment (SOE) reports.
The draft 2018 Palau Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Policy has the Vision of: Palau enriched by healthy
forests that sustain our culture and livelihoods, expand our economy and strengthen the resilience of our island ecosystems and communities.
Republic of Palau’s 6th National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity December 2019
This report fulfills Nauru's 5th reporting requirement to the Convention on Biological Diversity which is also Nauru's first national report to be submitted to the convention. In this regard, the report attempts to provide a comprehensive assessment of the status and trends of our island’s biodiversity and threats to its survival and viability, and it also provides an account of actions that have been implemented to protect and conserve Nauru's biodiversity.
Article on the tradition of catching frigate birds in Nauru.
BOC Bulletin. Scientific article
Scientific article: Pacific Science 2008 (62 : 4 ) 499-507
The findings of this BIORAP survey have identified or re-confirmed the critical importance of the biodiversity and ecosystems of Nauru's terrestrial and marine environments and the urgent need for follow-up activities to manage and mitigate threats for their conservation.
DEC
Biological survey
Convention on Biodiversity National Report for PNG
Conservation needs asessment for PNG
NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund: Ecosystem Profile East Melanesian Islands Biodiversity Hotspot
A conservation planning study in Papua New Guinea (PNG) addresses the role of
biodiversity surrogates and biodiversity targets, in the context of the trade-offs required
for planning given real-world costs and constraints. In a trade-offs framework, surrogates
must be judged in terms of their success in predicting general biodiversity
complementarity values – the amount of additional biodiversity an area can contribute to
a protected set. Wrong predictions of low complementarity (and consequent allocation of
Combating land degradation through integrated land management