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Global Biodiversity Information Forum (GBIF) Country Profiles: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Land  Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity

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Call Number: [EL]

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Priority sites for conservation in the Cook Islands: key biodiversity areas and important bird areas.

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Land  Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity

The Key Biodiversity Areas and Important Bird Areas (KBA's
& IBA's) approach is a simple, effective means of
implementing the protected areas elements of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). KBAs and IBAs are places of
international importance for the conservation of biological diversity through protected areas and other governance mechanisms.

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Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 38 p

The future of resilience-based management in coral reef ecosystems.

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity  Atmosphere and Climate

Resilience underpins the sustainability of both ecological and social systems. Extensive loss of reef corals following recent mass bleaching events have challenged the notion that support of system resilience is a viable reef management strategy.

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Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 11 p

Tuvalu national biodiversity strategy and action plan: fifth national report to the convention on biological diversity.

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Land  Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity  Atmosphere and Climate

The isolated, small, low-lying resource-poor atolls of Tuvalu are clearly on the frontline against climate change, the escalating impacts natural disasters and declining food, health and energy security.

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Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 101 p

Large-scale, multidirectional larval connectivity among coral reef fish populations in the Great Barrier Reef marine park.

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Land  Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity

Larval dispersal is the key process by which populations of most marine fishes and invertebrates are connected and replenished.

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Physical Description: 16 p

Marine protected areas increase resilience among coral reef communities.

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Land  Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity  Atmosphere and Climate

With marine biodiversity declining globally at accelerating rates, maximising the effectiveness of conservation has become a key goal for local, national and international regulators

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Physical Description: 10 p

How the race to achieve Aichi Target 11 could jeopardize the effective conservation of biodiversity in Canada and beyond.

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity

n 2010 Parties to the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed to reduce the rate ofbiodiversity loss within a decade by achieving 20 objectives that are commonly known as the Aichi Targets.

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Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 12 p