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.
Dataset contains training material on using open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to improve protected area planning and management from a workshop that was conducted on February 26-28, 2020. Specifically, the dataset contains lectures on GIS fundamentals, QGIS 3.x, and global positioning system (GPS), as well as country-specific datasets and a workbook containing exercises for viewing data, editing/creating datasets, and creating map products in QGIS.
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).
This shapefile contains the lines that shows the global 200 nautical miles zone. It can be opened in any GIS software.
This dataset has information on coral reef cover and fish in Cook Islands from 1994 to 2013.
This dataset has information on coral reef cover and fish in Cook Islands.
Data Management System Project
This data is basic contextual open GIS data for Samoa
This Dataset displays sources of Renewable Energy available in Samoa
The Tuanaimato Solar Farm comprises of 3 separate Power Producers
Solar Samoa
Green Power
Electric Power Corporation
This national inventory aims to provide a snap shot of the situation in Samoa in 2009 with the generation of electrical and electronic wastes, and the management practices involved to safely store, collect, refurbish, recycle and dispose of the generated wastes.
The nature of institutional e-wastes generation. The information indicates the quantities of write off electrical equipments from government ministries since 2005
*refer to page 11 of Inventory pdf report for more information*
The zip-file contains 2 shapefiles (points and polygons), displaying the protected areas in Palau.