Invasive
Species a Growing Problem for the Pacific
SPREP
media release
Invasive
species are a rapidly increasing problem across the Pacific
islands region and countries are calling on the Secretariat
of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
to assist with raising public awareness and increasing
government engagement in addressing the problem...read
more
K5
600 to Help Protect Turtles
The
National newspaper, Monday 27 September, 2010, PNG
THE
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme’s
(SPREP) financial assistance of US$2,000 (K5,618) to the
Mas Kagin Tapani Association (also known as Makata), a
community-based conservation organisation, will aid efforts
to protect nests of the endangered Leatherback and Green
sea turtles in the Karkum Conservation Area...read
more
Life
Changing Water Pipes
By
Mari Moertvedt
“I
always feel tears coming, when I talk about this project.
We are very happy, because people now can go out on their
doorsteps and turn on the taps to get water. Some of us
even have a shower,” says Chief Esau of Ekipe village
on North Efate island in Vanuatu... read
more
Whale
Survey Update
By
Dr Cara Miller, Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society
“A
group of 17 Fisheries Officers, non governmental organizations,
researchers, students, community members and volunteers
set sail on the Uto ni Yalo with the Fiji Islands Voyaging
Society on Friday morning. Conditions were relatively
calm and there was much excitement as the group made the
8 hour crossing to Levuka... read
more
Training
Ends for Whale Survey Volunteers
Source:
WWF South Pacific Programme
Thirty-two
volunteers are now ready and eager to undergo a one month
whale survey off the Levuka waters after two days of training
in Suva, Fiji.
Facilitated
by the Department of Fisheries, Whales and Dolphins Conservation
Society (WDCS), South Pacific Regional Environment Programme
(SPREP) and the WWF South Pacific Programme, the workshop
introduced the volunteers to surveying techniques, different
whale and dolphin species identification and their migration
patterns...read
more
Mangroves
Vital for Climate Change Adaptation
Source:
WWF South Pacific Programme
Mangroves
are vital to climate change adaptation and should be protected.
Presenting
to a group of journalists at the Fiji Times newsroom,
WWF South Pacific Programme’s Project Coordinator for
Global Environment Facility’s Project on Coastal Resilience
of Mangroves to Climate Change, Monifa Fiu stressed the
importance of these coastal plants...read
more
China
Expedites Finalization of its New Biodiversity Strategy
and Action Plan
COMMUNIQUÉ
Montreal, 26 August 2010
China, which in 1994 became the first country to prepare
a national biodiversity strategy and action plan (NBSAP),
is now among a select group of countries that have initiated
a new strategy and action plan in advance of the Nagoya
Biodiversity Summit... read
more
Pacific
Region Unites for International Biodiversity Conference
Island
Business Tuesday, 17th August 2010
NADI,
Fiji (SPREP) ---- A Pacific meeting to prepare their cohesive
voice to share at the international biodiversity stage,
opened in Nadi this week. The Pacific Regional Convention
for the Biological Diversity 10th Conference of the Parties
Preparatory Meeting has brought together over 30 people
from Pacific island governments, partners and conservation
workers...read
more
Value
Island Biodiversity - It’s Our Life! Regional Efforts
for the Year of Biodiversity Begin
3/5/2010
- SPREP MEDIA RELEASE
The
2010 International Year of Biodiversity tonight received
an additional boost as the Pacific islands region formally
launched its efforts for the campaign during a function
at the Headquarters of the Secretariat of the Pacific
Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). Speaking during
the launch and unveiling of the Pacific Biodiversity logo,
Acting Director for SPREP, Mr Kosi Latu, stated that celebrating
the Year was a way of recognizing the value of biodiversity
to us as island dwelling people...read
more
New
Butterfly Species Discovered
Post
Courier Weekender online, Saturday 31st July to Sunday
1st August, 2010, PNG
An
expedition by British butterfly specialist, John Tennent,
to the outlying islands of Milne Bay has discovered a
number of new butterfly species and highlighted important
previously unknown information on the distribution of
PNG butterflies...read
more
Beauty
has heart for Environment
The
National online newspaper, 27th July 2010, PNG
MISS
Bank South Pacific 2010 Rachel Sapery James is encouraging
coastal communities to love the environment and protect
natural barriers such as coral reefs and mangrove forests...read
more
Palau
Conservation Society Partners to Protect Biodiversity
By
Anu Gupta, BirdLife
International Website, Monday June 7th 2010 (date viewed
Thursday 29th July 2010), PALAU
International
Day for Biological Diversity was marked in
Palau by a presentation by Anu Gupta entitled: ‘PCS
and Communities: partnering to protect our terrestrial
biodiversity’. Anu is the Director of Conservation and
Protected Areas for the Palau Conservation Society (PCS),
the BirdLife partner in Palau, and she tells us more…read
more
