Powerpoint presentation (pdf) by Makereta Lomaloma of the Economic Development Division, SPC
Nauru's Roadmap. 48 p publication.
Publication produced with support from the European Union and the German Government (GIZ).
Publication by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Environment 2009
Report undertaken by SPC, GIZ and IRENA
Summary downloaded from IRENA
Publication by IRENA (28 pages)
Report by ISA still in draft. 25pages.
Report prepared by the Nauru MDG Taskforce and the Govt of Nauru with assistance from UNDP. 116 pages.
Finalised Policy on Nauru's National Water, Sanitation. 30 pages
Report - 108 pages sponsored WHO, UN Habitat, UNICEF and SPC
Scientific journal - Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes : 138-139 (2014)
Pacific brief for the report of the Secretary-General to CSD13 - SOPAC Miscellaneous Report 598
Report under the IWP-Pacific Technical report (International Waters Project) No. 9
Ten composite soil samples (0-15 cm depth) were collected from abandoned phosphate-mined sites on Nauru Island (Central Pacific) and analyzed for % organic C and % N. The samples represent a temporal sequence (chronosequence) of soil development spanning < 55 yr. The increase of% C and % N was fairly rapid.
The environment of Nauru, a raised atoll located in the central Pacific Ocean (0° 32′ S, 166° 56′ W), was
devastated by mining of phosphate “rock” during the twentieth century. Some 100 million tonnes of
phosphate material has been removed, leaving more than 80% of the island as a dolomite
pinnacle–dominated karrenfeld. Based on fieldwork examining sites unmined at that time, laboratory
studies on undisturbed profiles, aerial photographs, and old mining maps, a picture of what the soil
Radio Interview:
Alex Feary is a NZ ecologist that undertook his Masters dissertation on field work in Nauru. The masters was for Victoria University, New Zealand. He particularly noted the abundance of invasive species and the need to manage them.
The restoration of Nauru’s mined areas is fundamental to the future wellbeing of the people and ecosystems of Nauru. Extensive open cast phosphate mining on Nauru over the last 100 years has led to soil losses and landscape degradation to the extent that over 70% of this South-Western Pacific island state is now uninhabitable and almost all productive land has been lost.
The avifauna of Nauru has received scant attention over the past nearly 130 years since
Otto Finsch reported the five species he observed on 24 July 1880 (Finsch 1881). Pearson
(1962) recorded at least 16 species over a period of six months in 1961, and he stated that
Finsch’s work comprised ‘the only previous ornithological literature available concerning
Nauru’. King (1967) and Garnett (1984) merged seabird records from Nauru with those
from the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), without stating which may have pertained only to the
Discusses the clash between European and native cultures. Nauru was first sighted by Captain John Fearn of the 'Hunter' on a voyage from NZ to the China Seas in 1798. British mandate after the First world war. Development of the phosphate industry. Changes in the native economy. Population. Second World War
The environmental issue of greatest concern to the people of Nauru is the degradation of the mined phosphate lands. In all of the series of consultations that were carried out between the people of Nauru and the various teams of technical experts to ascertain the feasibility of rehabilitating the island, it was constantly emphasised that the total degradation of topside, including localized inland, water shortages and coastal erosions are problems that need to be addressed for sustainable development.