Letter From the Director David K Mitchell
Welcome to our fifth ECA newsletter for Eco Custodian Advocates, As we enter our third year we can look back and see that we are making both environmental and life impact of our place. Our lead story is on turtle satellite tagging with youth from Ole Island - 1808 Atlas of D’Entrecasteaux voyage. But 2018 is leaning towards an El Nino year and it seems the migration for nesting this season is not on. We look at why not.
We had an Adelaide University student with us in this work who had been drawn by Gwala Rising.
This report is primarily directed to analyzing the legal aspects of ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change. It sketches the impacts of climate change in the Pacific Island countries, recognizing that climate change directly impacts ecosystems, which provide for the needs of people as well as for the maintenance of the natural environment.
For the Ninth Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas December 2013, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) commissioned an assessment of the status of biodiversity and conservation in Oceania. This report assesses the overall state of conservation in Papua New Guinea using 16 indicators.
*this report wasn't published but was sent to country for checking (2013)* - to be used for the Regional SOE initiative 2019
Draft documents in the development of PNGs SOE 2019
The island of New Guinea hosts the third largest expanse of tropical rainforest on the planet. Papua New Guinea—comprising the eastern half of the island—plans to nearly double its national road network (from 8,700 to 15,000 km) over the next three years, to spur economic growth. We assessed these plans using fine-scale biophysical and environmental data. We identified numerous environmental and socioeconomic risks associated with these projects, including the dissection of 54 critical biodiversity habitats and diminished forest connectivity across large expanses of the island.
This data is downloaded from World Data for Protected Area site. These statistics might differ from those reported officially due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area with the updated inventory.
Oil palm prices may hold up in the medium term, with strong demand from India and China. Yet, like other non-oil commodities, oil palm prices are likely to remain volatile, and to experience a long term relative price decline. (Chapter 3). 2. World prices are not the main problem for small farmers in PNG.
Data acquisition report for lagoon water velocity observations in Funafuti, Tuvalu, undertaken in 2004 and 2009 (RESTRICTED)
Data acquisition report for lagoon wave observations in Funafuti Lagoon, Tuvalu, undertaken in 2009 and 2010 (RESTRICTED)
Offshore surface waves, Funafuti, Tuvalu (RESTRICTED)
Structural style and petroleum prospects of the Tonga Ridge - poster paper presented at AAPG Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 1989
Vulnerability of groundwater in Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga - groundwater evaluation and monitoring assessment, February 2009 (RESTRICTED)
Cook Islands Technical Report - Numerical model of Aitutaki: water circulation and applications (RESTRICTED)
Satellite-derived bathymetry models for tsunami inundation modelling, Nuku'alofa case study (CONFIDENTIAL)
Attempted validation of tsunami modelling for the 2007 Solomon Islands tsunami (CONFIDENTIAL)
SPC-EU EDF10 Deep Sea Minerals (DSM) Project – Proceedings of the Fiji National Deep Sea Minerals Stakeholder Consultation Workshop, Novotel Suva, Lami Bay, Fiji, 28 March 2012 (RESTRICTED)
Pacific Cities CD, Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Version 1.0, GIS Hazards Database
Pacific Cities CD, Honiara, Solomon Islands, Version 1.0, GIS Hazards Database
Pacific Cities CD, Apia, Samoa, Version 1.0, GIS Hazards Database
Pacific Cities CD, Port Vila, Vanuatu, Version 1.0, GIS Hazards Database