Dataset that provides a direct link to Tuvalu's data hosted on the GBIF website / records.
BIORAP survey conducted by Ridge to Reef team in collaboration with department of environment,fisheries and agriculture.
The BIORAP Survey was conducted on Funafuti in 2017. The purpose of the survey is to get a rapid assessment on the biodiversity of Funafuti.
Biodiversity is part and parcel of Tuvalu's development framework. This NBSAP is the first formal consolidated attempt to address biodiversity issues and constraints in Tuvalu in a comprehensive manner.
This dataset hosts the national reports by Tuvalu to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Perceived threats can be summarised as arising from deleterious human actions and negative attitudes to the environment, leading to inappropriate behaviour, such as littering, over-fishing and hunting, using fishing nets and modern fishing method, the use of guns and the introduction of pests; the use of inappropriate technologies, such as solid and liquid waste water disposal systems; uncontrolled use of resources and control of livestock; increasing consumption patterns, arising from increases in human populations, demands and changing lifestyles; institutional weaknesses; ignorance and l
Thaman 2016
Watling 1998
Funded by: SOUTH PACIFIC BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION PROGRAMME, SOUTH PACIFIC REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (SPREP), APIA,SAMOA
Environmental Consultants Fiji Ltd.