Niue designated its entire EEZ as a multiple-use marine park, with 40 percent as a no-take marine protected area, 56 percent as a general-use zone and a small slice managed by local villagers
Category: Niue
Incorporating traditional knowledge in tropical cyclone monitoring for a resilient Niue
Niue is incorporating traditional knowledge to its scientific prediction models to ensure that communities can best prepare for disasters
NZ Navy Hydrographers get to work mapping Niue’s unique landscape
Niue request assistance from NZ Navy Hydrographers to carry out a full bathymetric survey to show an accurate shape of the ocean floor and coral reefs
Niue walking the talk on protecting 100% of its Ocean space
Niue’s new EEZ legislation to sustain 100 percent of its marine environment and build important resilience to the growing impacts of climate change, pollution and extraction
Small-scale fishers from Niue are contributing to the management of Tuna resources
The Niue Ocean Wide (NOW) Project hopes to instill a greater incentive for the fishers to provide the much-needed data
Fisheries Ministers express concerns over COVID-19 impacts
Fisheries Ministers from member countries of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) have expressed serious concern about the unprecedented impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their domestic economies. This was during the 17th FFC Ministers meeting last week. Ministers have expressed strengthened commitments to regional solidarity and collaboration as central to confronting the impacts […]
Climate change research aims to give back Pacific’s ‘sustainable voice
A University of Waikato researcher says some of the current colonial representations of climate change in the Pacific are obscuring Pacific voices and failing to recognise the importance of Indigenous knowledge in the fight against the changing climate. Dr Jessica Pasisi’s thesis, Niue Women’s Perspective and Experiences of Climate Change – a Hiapo Aproach, brings […]