Vanuatu Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation
… 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 … surrogates of biodiversity for marine conservation and management. Existing marine bioregionalisations however, are …
International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN)
… arid recent studies have shown that coral reef goods and services provide an annual net benefit of US$30 billion … microalgae (zooxanthellae) in their body tissue and secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton. Coral reefs are formed by hundreds of thousands of these polyps and are found in warm, shallow, clear, low-nutrient tropical …
UNESCO/SOPAC
… aimed to raise the level of awareness about PacificGOOS and its value for sustainable development, to inform … in the region, to broaden participation in PacificGOOS, and to develop the outlines of some pilot projects to take … Three project outlines were developed, on: (i) coastal water quality; (ii) mariculture developments; and (iii) coral …
Pacific Data Hub
… portal provides ocean data relevant to a range of sectors and applications including tourism, fishing, … shipping/boating, coastal inundation, environmental management etc. Designed with a user-friendly interface, the … The primary purpose of the portal is both data discovery, and a means of communicating ocean information. The data …
Department of Environment, Tonga
… in the Ha'apai group (Sep 11-21), Vava'u (Sep 22-28) and Niuaatoputapu (Sep 29-Oct 1). The mission included coral … reef assessments, coral reef research, habitat mapping, and educational activities. The objectives of the mission were to: 1) Identify and characterize shallow marine habitats and develop habitat …
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Smithsonian Institution
… An extensive survey was conducted by ORSTOM between 1991 and 1992 to obtain baseline information on the shorefishes. A … (39 species), Chaetodontidae (31 species) and Apogonidae (28 species). The absence or very low … by Dinemalichthys riukiuensis, which is known to occur at Fiji, Ouvea and Queensland in the South and from Okinawa. …
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
… than the 4-km resolution map used in the 1998 analysis, and benefits from improvements in many global data sets used … a global assessment of the vulnerability of nations and territories to coral reef degradation, based on their dependence on coral reefs and their capacity to adapt. WRI led the Reefs at Risk …