Map of the protected areas for the Ratak Chain, Marshall Islands with country-level summary statistics on the amount of area under protection, count for each type of protected area (terrestrial or marine), and the count of their designation.
Special thanks to the other groups making this event possible.
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.
Water temperatures collected from lagoons.
This is completely made up data.
Planning resource for integrated action planning for the management of the Cook Islands marine environment
wetland area in hectares, 2014 NES
Data on reef fish, sea urchin, sea urchin density and biomass
Data on reef fisheries including sea cucumber, parrot fish and others.
Rarotonga’s wetlands, with in-fill areas of wetlands, and other types of land-use. (SPREP, 2015; Data source NES)
Figure 95: Rarotonga’s wetlands near Avarua. (SPREP, 2015, Data source NES)
Figure 113: Total finfish density inside reef, 2007. (PROCFish 2009)
Sea cucumber densities (count per area) from four islands in Cook Islands, 2013. (Rongo et al, 2014)
Sea cucumber densities (count per area) from four islands in Cook Islands, 2013. (Rongo et al, 2014)
Jaluit Atoll Ramsar Information Sheet, 2003.
Ramsar site map by SPREP-EMG/GIS, 2016.
