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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.

Available online

Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 38 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.

Available online

Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 101 p

Systematics and ecology of the land crabs (Decapoda: Coenobitidae, Grapsidae and Gecarcinidae) of the Tokelau Islands, Central Pacific

 The Smithsonian Institution
 Land  Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity

The Tokelau Islands consist of three atolls (Atafu, Nukunonu and Fakaofo) approximately 500 km north of Western Samoa. Their numerous islets are formed mainly of coral sand and rubble with no standing freshwater. Sixty-one plant species have been recorded, 13 of these being introduced and 10 being adventives. There are three vegetation zones, the beach, the beach-crest, and the interior coconut/fern zone with the physiognomy of a humid tropical forest. Marine invertebrates have not been studied.