There are not perfect data which describe the distribution and abundance of every marine habitat and species in the Pacific. And certainly not at a scale that is useful for national planning in the ocean. Bioregionalisation, or the classification of the marine environment into spatial units that host similar biota, can serve to provide spatially explicit surrogates of biodiversity for marine conservation and management. Existing marine bioregionalisations however, are at a scale that is too broad for national governments in the Pacific to use.
Samoa Protected Area (PA) data from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), downloaded August 2019. This dataset includes both tables and spatial data.
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the most comprehensive global database of marine and terrestrial protected areas, updated on a monthly basis, and is one of the key global biodiversity data sets being widely used by scientists, businesses, governments, International secretariats and others to inform planning, policy decisions and management.
The Strandings of Oceania database is a collaborative project between SPREP, WildMe and the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium to record stranding and beachcast data for whales, dolphins and dugongs throughout the Pacific. We use a platform called Flukebook. An account is needed to view or use data within Flukebook but the data is available for download here. You can submit data direct into Flukebook (preferably while logged in) or send a completed data form to SPREP for upload. Guidance on using the database is available :
Emergency division tabletop exercise in Kosrae- October 25-27, 2023
Global EEZ layer are the layers gathered from gazetted datasets that the Pacific Community (SPC) has received from the project countries. In areas where there are no gazetted datasets provisional layers are being sourced from the Global Marine Regions database (https://www.marineregions.org/).
There are two layers available, he .shp file layer and the .kml layer which are being used by partners and member states in particular FFA for the Regional Fisheries Surveillance Center (RFSC).
GIS Layer of buildings from SOPAC PACRIFI project
Districts in Samoa, limited metadata
Protected areas of Palau. Data sourced from: IUCN and UNEP-WCMC (2018), The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) [On-line], [July 2018]. Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.
Historical rainfall data from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal , World Bank Group
(Website: http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/index.cfm?page=downscaled_dat…)
Location and distribution of MPAs on the east side of Babeldaob. Data obtained from WDPA dataset
Ridge to reef data, EEZ_nauru, limited metadata, compiled in 2018
Ridge to Reef data, fish survey sites in Nauru, limited metadata, compiled in 2018
Ridge to Reef data, landmarks_Nauru, limited metadata, compiled in 2018
Ridge to Reef Data, Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA), limited metadata, compiled in 2018
Ridge to Reef Data on Observer Pollution Events over the past 10 years in Nauru, limited metadata compiled in 2018
Ridge to Reef data on the reef outline of Nauru, limited metadata, compiled in 2018
Ridge to Reef Data on Seamounts in Nauru, limited metadata, compiled in 2018
Ridge to Reef Data, Grassland Vegetation Class, Limited Metadata, Compiled in 2018
Ridge to Reef data, mining class, limited metadata, compiled in 2018