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Globally and locally, conservationists and scientists work to inform policy makers to help recovery of endangered sea turtle populations. In Fiji, in the South Pacific, sea turtles are protected by the national legislation because of their conservation status, and are also a customary iTaukei resource. Centered on our interview based study at Qoma and Denimanu villages, parallel management systems coexist, where both the (written) national legislation and the (unwritten) customary iTaukei rules determine the time and the quantity of sea turtle harvest.

The malau or Polynesian megapode was only found on Niuafo'ou until a second population was estanlished relatively recently on Fonualei Island in the vava'u Group.

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Call Number: [EL],591.529 REP

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0692-6,978-982-03-0692-3

Physical Description: 38 p. 29 cm

Coral reef ecosystems are seriously threatened by changing conditions in the ocean. Although many factors are implicated, climate change has emerged as a dominant and rapidly growing threat.

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Coral reefs face threats from climate change and local pressures, but many initiatives designed to deliver conservation outcomes for them and the social-economic system they support are limited by sustainable finance and the availability of funds over the long term.

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The 50 Reefs Approach to Coral Conservation

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Since 1974, the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans (RSCAPs) Programme has evolved to consist of eighteen unique instruments for enhancing marine environmental cooperation tailored to regional specificites that are strategically placed to respond to the urgent call for securing planetary health.

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Oceania is geographically one of IUCN’s largest regional programmes, covering much of the central and south west Pacific Ocean as well as Australia and New Zealand. The Pacific Islands cover almost 15% of the world’s ocean surface. The area is characterized by a high degree of ecosystem and species diversity, as well as a high level of endemicity (often over 90% for particular groups) on many of the Pacific Islands. Increasing awareness about the importance of biodiversity and the threats to these species is critically important to the survival of all species on Earth.

The focus on biodieversity and conservation is recognition of protecting and conserving biodiversity and sustainably managing living natural resources are fundamental to sustainable development.

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Researchers have listed fifteen areas of concern, emphasizing the need to tackle these issues. Examples include the mining of lithium form the deep sea, exploitation of species found in deep waters and the unforeseen effects of wildfires across different ecosystems.

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Countries in East Asia and the Pacific are at the center of the marine plastics crisis with some countries in the region representing the biggest contributors and others disproportionately affected by the impacts of marine plastic debris on their shores.

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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defines its "strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sus-
tainable use in an equitable way" as the Ecosystem Approach to management. This use incorporates the concept of an area used by humans as well as one containing plants and animals in a recognisable configuration.

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Call Number: 333.75 SHE [EL]

ISBN/ISSN: 978-2-8317-0957-4

The report was commissioned at the end of May 2008 with delivery of the final product by end June 2008. As such, it has been
researched and written over a very compressed timeline. Considerable shortcomings and inconsistencies in data
needed to be tackled in this period, and so a rapid desk assessment approach was used with limited opportunity for peer review and feedback.

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Call Number: 333.72 PAC ,[EL]

Physical Description: 97 p.

The extensive Pacific Islands region comprises around 30.000 islands scattered across the vast central Pacific Ocean. The island groups and sea areas are divided into 22 countries, with a total population of around 6 million people. The great majority of people live in relatively small and isolated coastal or rural village communities, and remain closely reliant on their local natural resources for subsistence and economic development.

Ecosystem services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, such as clean air, fresh water, and the pollination of crops. The aim of this literature review was to find empirical data illustrating the ways in which conservation land and conservation management activities affect ecosystem services. The widely-held belief that natural ecosystems—such as those found on conservation land in New Zealand—provide a range of ecosystem services is generally supported by the literature.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on conservation policies and practice at multiple scales, including protected and conserved areas (PCAs). There is a need to understand the implications for PCAs of recent actions, enacted or promoted in the wake of COVID-19. To fill this knowledge gap, we reviewed economic stimulus packages and other government policies that were implemented or advanced between January and October 2020.

This report highlights WCS Fiji Country Program's achievements from January to December
2017, under our three main themes of Science, Management and Communication. We also
highlight our engagement with national and regional policy and planning, and the links to Fiji’s national priority strategies under the National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP), National Climate Change Policy, Green Growth Framework and National Gender Policy, to enable governments and partners to assess progress towards national targets.

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This Pacific conservation or this Talanoa session is about the State of Environment and Conservation (SOEC) regional report 2020.
The aim of the webinar is to update you, our members and partners about the online resources to support your work in the region. To raise awareness regarding the Pacific SOEC website and to answer your question on what resources available on this website.

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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