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The calendar also include a local map, a table of highest and lowest predicted tides of the year, phases of the moon, indicators of highest and lowest tides of the month, and fact sheets about tidal variability and extreme high tides (also known as King Tides in the region), with additional fact-sheets on Traditional Knowledge and Tides and Sea Level for Coastal Development and Sea Navigation.

The objective of the study is to build institutional capacity and knowledge to enable Tuvalu to better plan and manage the impacts of climate change on migration. Specifically, through developing migration indicators, providing information on labour migration and gathering data on community attitudes to climate change-related migration.

Tuvalu is one of 15 countries participating in PacWaste project, with activities taking place in the project domains of healthcare waste and asbestos.

An assessment of climate change mainstreaming.

According to the U.N. FAO, 33.3% or about 1,000 ha of Tuvalu is forested. Tuvalu's forests contain - million metric tons of carbon in living forest biomass.

A pdf summary of statistical records as presented on the Mongabay website

This review was prepared jointly by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP) and the Environmental Defenders Office Ltd (EDO NSW), updates and builds on the reviews conducted in the early 2000s under the International Waters Project.

This report is an output of the Tuvalu PACC Project. It was written by Louis Bouchet.

This Fifth Tuvalu National Report (5th Report) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) summarizes the nature, cultural importance, conservation status and threats changes to Tuvalu’s Biodiversity and actions taken or that need to be taken to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity since the submission of the fourth national report in 2010.

Compiled by Dr A J Tilling & Ms E Fihaki.

Community consultations have taken place on four islands to collect relevant information on island biodiversity, so as to incorporate this into the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. The perceived threats are shown in this excel sheet.

classification of land use in Tuvalu

CVS format of the excel sheet.

The data presents the volume and value of estimates annual fisheries catches and aqua cultural harvest in Tuvalu in 2014.

Data extracted from the Fisheries in PIC's economies' report, 2016.

The apparent changes in production for the three years sometimes represents real change in production, but it can also reflect a change in the methodology for how the production is measured (hopefully an improvement). In table above, the production levels for coastal commercial, coastal subsistence, and freshwater change significantly between the years, but some of that change is due to the way in which the production was estimated. For example, for the 2014 estimate of coastal fisheries production, the results of
the 2010 HIES were available.