The Pacific Islands Regional Marine Species Programme (2022-2026) is a regional strategy for the cooperative conservation and management of dugongs, marine turtles, whales and dolphins, sharks and rays, and seabirds. The Programme is meant to be a guiding strategy to help Members (and Partners) to identify priorities for action to protect marine species. This webinar was hosted by SPREP’s Threatened and Migratory Species Team about a year after the Programme was launched to assist with socialisation of the Programme and encourage collaboration
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A Management Plan for the O Le Pupu-Pu'e National park was first formulated in 1981 and has not been revised since then. Circumstances for park management have changed significantly and some sections of the Management plan are now out of date.
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Physical Description: 41 p.
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is designed to safeguard the world's biodiversity hotspots. CEPF is a joint initiative of Conservation International, l'Agence Française de Développement, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the World Bank
In collaboration with SPREP|Available online
Call Number: 333.7 CON ,333.95 ECO,[EL]
Physical Description: viii, 128 p. ; 29 cm
This guide is about how to plan and implement the new global target for effectively and equitably conserving at least 30% of the Earth by 2030. This guide is intended to support countries in the development and exceution of their plans for GBF target 3.
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Physical Description: 69 p.
The Pacific ocean's exceptional terrestrial and marine biodiversity offers invaluable services to communities. But for this part of the world is particularly vulnerable to climate change, which has a direct impact on ecosystems and traditional way of life. The KIWA initiative is a multi-donor program that aims to strengthen the climate resilience of ecosystems, communities and economies in the Pacific countries and territories by using Nature-based solutions (NbS) to protect, restore and sustainably manage biodiversity.
The SPREP Strategic Plan 2017–2026 builds on the successes and lessons learned in the implementation of the Strategic Plan 2011–2015. SPREP has used these lessons together with
The Cook Islands signed the Convention on Biological Diversity at the Earth
Summit in 1992. As a Party to the Convention, the Cook Islands Government
committed itself and its people to conserve its biodiversity, to use it in a sustainable manner, and to share its benefits in an equitable manner. It also committed itself to control invasive species (the weeds and pest animals in natural ecosystems and agricultural systems), and to reduce the likelihood of future invasions.
Call Number: 333.95 MCC [EL],BIO,333.95 COO
Threats to sharks and rays, major threat to sharks and rays globally in unregulated fishing (including legal as well as illegal fishing). Habitat loss and modification - impacts coastal and freshwater species (barriers to migration)
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Sharks are not like other fish, they are slow growing, late to mature and produce a few young ones.
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To see all species of manta rays and their relatives protected or effectively managed for sustainable/non consumptive use by the people closest to them, in a means that promotes wider ocean conservation.
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Seabirds of the Pacific Islands; 42 species of seabird known or suspected to breed throughout the tropical Pacific islands. 10 are considered endemic. 11 globally threatened (CR, EN, VU) and one near threatened species.
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Physical Description: 12 p.