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Central Africa supports an incredible biodiversity, and its inland waters are no exception. The Congo River has the highest species diversity of any freshwater system in Africa, and is second in species richness globally, after the Amazon. This diversity provides benefits to humans both directly, such as through livelihoods from fisheries, and indirectly through services such as the purification of water for drinking.

The marine environment is a vital resource for Fiji's tourism, yet industry and community efforts to conserve and improve it have largely gone unrecognised, and are under-utilised in Fiji's tourism

The management plan describes the priority strategies for the Ijuw/Anabar wetlands Proposed Conservation area (PCA) that will best maintain and improve the key conservation values in this area by reducing the impact of threats, including from climate change.

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Call Number: [EL],574.526 325 MAN

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0682-7,978-982-04-0683-4

Physical Description: 13 p. 29 cm

Tuvalu signed the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992 and rarified it in 2002. With the increasing effects of climate change, there is growing recognition on the need for education on understanding the significance of the existing biodiversity in our ecosystem.

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Call Number: 371.302 8 BIO ,[EL]

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0694-0,978-982-04-0695-7

Physical Description: 62 p. 29 cm

In 2018, the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a decision on protected areas and other

Participatory three dimensional model (P3DM) is a community engagement tool which integrates spatial data with local "traditional knowledge". This tool is widely used for spatial planning, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and many more.

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Call Number: 005.3 PAR [EL]

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0678-0,978-982-04-0679-7

Physical Description: 31 p. 29 cm

To accommodate for nesting activity in the future, a human impact assessment of suitable beaches is advised to determine if human habitat alterations have influenced nest-site selection or micro-environments within nest chamber.

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Call Number: [EL],597.92 962 3 COO

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0676-6,978-982-04-0677-3

Physical Description: 27 p. 29 cm

The Governance Assessment for Protected Areas and Conserved Areas (GAPA) methodology manual is the product of four years’ work

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ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-78431-733-1

Physical Description: 160 p

This is a short video on the Key Biodiversity Areas around the world and also in the Pacific.

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Physical Description: 2 minutes and 5 seconds

At the World Conservation Congress, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2004, the IUCN Membership requested “a worldwide consultative process to agree a methodology to enable countries to identify Key Biodiversity Areas”.

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ISBN/ISSN: 978-2-8317-1835-4

Physical Description: 46 p

Nature provides human society with a vast diversity of benefits such as food, fibres, clean water, healthy soil and carbon capture and many more. Though our well-being is totally dependent upon the continued flow of these “ecosystem services”, they are predominantly public goods with no markets and no prices, so are rarely detected by our current economic compass. As a result, biodiversity is declining, our ecosystems are being continuously degraded and we, in turn, are suffering the consequences.

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Call Number: [EL],333.95 THE

In this chapter we provide a brief introduction to how protected area systems have evolved – from the historical 10% representation target to our current recognition that gap analyses are required to assess where these protected areas best safeguard, or should safeguard, our planet’s biodiversity. We summarize recent intergovernmental mandates that call for strategic assessment of the effectiveness of protected area networks, and we introduce the concept of KBAs as a tool for fulfilling these mandates.

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To conserve global biodiversity, countries must forgee quitable alliances that support sustainability in traditional pastoral lands fisheries-management areas Indigenous territories and more. Global support is growing for the 30 x 30 movement - a goal to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030.

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Physical Description: 4 p.

This emphasizes that species recovery is conceptually different from extinction risk and reinforces the utility of the IUCN Green Status of Species to more fully understand species conservation status. Although extinction

As climate change, disrupts local economies, ecosystems and biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean, implementing effective solutions is paramount. Over the last decade, UNDP has worked with countries to deploy Nature-based solutions (NbS) as an approach to meeting these multiple interconnected challenges while enhancing jobs and livelihoods and providing other socio-economic and ecosystem service benefits.

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Physical Description: 72 p.

In 2009 following discussions with participants at the Nature Conservation Roundtable held in Solomon Islands, a draft framework for implementing the International Year of Biodiversity (IYOB) in the Pacific was circulated regionally for comment and input. Member countries and territories then endorsed the framework at the 20th SPREP Meeting held in Apia in 2009 and committed to taking action to observe a Pacific focused IYOB during 2010–2011. In February 2010 the Pacific islands region swung into action to celebrate the Pacific Year of Biodiversity (PYOB).

SPREP presents these guidelines for undertaking rapid biodiversity assessments in its Pacific island member countries and territories: Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. These assessments are referred to as BIORAPs. The guidelines are recommended to be used by SPREP members for the planning and implementation of terrestrial and marine BIORAP surveys, and subsequent monitoring of important sites.

3 copies|References on pages 46-50|Prepared by Wildlands for SPREP

Call Number: 574.526367 PAT ,[EL]

We conducted a seafood Value Chain Analysis (VCA) for the coral reef grouper (Epinephelidae) 1 fishery in Fiji with the goal of understanding the distribution of value gained from grouper along the trade chain, from fisher to consumer.

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ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9903852-2-6

Physical Description: 60 p.

This report presents Volume 1 (of three volumes) prepared as part of the Solomon Islands Ecosystems and Socio-economic Resilience Analysis and Mapping (ESRAM) to assess and prioritise climate change-related ecosystem-based adapation options for selected locations in Solomon Islands. Volume 1 provides the generic project background and methodology relevant to all three volumes, together with the high level national scale assessment.

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ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0757-2,978-982-04-0758-9

The sea below 200 meters depth accounts for 95% of the volume of the ocean, making it the largest habitat for life on Earth.

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ISBN/ISSN: 9782831719214

Physical Description: 88 p