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Posted inOur originals / Fiji

Agro PV project promises food security, clean energy for island communities

By Dionisia Tabureguci December 6, 2022December 6, 2022

Fiji’s first ever Agro Photovoltaic project to make Ovalau 50 percent renewable energy efficient and involve women and youth in learning climate-smart farming techniques

Posted inOpinion / Our region

Op-Ed: In a sea of climate disappointment, the ocean must take centre stage in all future climate discussions

By Sanjeshni Kumar December 6, 2022December 6, 2022

As we move forward under the 2050 Strategy, we must continue to push for a greater oceans focus in the UNFCCC process and create a unified regional ocean-climate action agenda to address climate change in the Pacific, writes SG Puna

Posted inStory / Our region

WWF support the prohibition of shark lines and wire leaders

By Pita Ligaiula November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

WWF hopeful WCPFC 19 will take a decision to prohibit the use of wire leaders and shark lines to address a heavily depleted oceanic whitetip shark stock and silky shark

Posted inStory / Our region

Pacific Tuna will not collapse next year if WCPFC fails to adopt management measures

By Pita Ligaiula November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

Fishery will not collapse next year if WCPFC fails to adopt management measures of a harvest strategy for skipjack tuna, says Pacific tuna industry expert

Posted inStory / Our region

Tuna fisheries in the region may lose certification if WCPFC fails to adopt management measures

By Pita Ligaiula November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

WCPFC’s failure to adopt harvest strategies this year would put Tuna species in the Western and Central Pacific at peril and cause global turmoil in the market for sustainable Tuna, says Fisheries Standard Director

Posted inOpinion / Our region

$10 billion Pacific skipjack Tuna Fishery could soon be better protected

By Glen Holmes and Dave Gershman November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

A new fisheries management approach under consideration would improve sustainability for skipjack tuna stock in the western and central Pacific Ocean, write authors

Posted inStory / Papua New Guinea

Saving Vulnerable Inshore Dolphins in Southern Papua New Guinea

By Christine Tuioti November 29, 2022November 29, 2022

Local communities in PNG are working with researchers to help monitor and conserve two endangered inshore dolphins who face threats from local fishers in the area

Posted inStory / Tonga

Tonga volcano sea floor map reveals ‘mind-blowing’ cavity left behind by eruption

By Mark Doman and Alex Palmer November 25, 2022November 25, 2022

NIWA team discover that volcanic eruption in Tonga discharged at least 9.5 cubic kilometres of displaced material, making it one of the most massive eruptions in the world

Posted inOpinion / Our region

‘When a cyclone hits a thatched hut in the Pacific Islands, it’s raw and scary’

By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson November 25, 2022November 25, 2022

As Pacific islanders experience extreme cyclones, what becomes of those in thatched fales? Where do they seek refuge when their homes are destroyed and they do not have the resources to build back?, writes Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson

Posted inStory / Our region

Pacific leaders celebrate COP27 victory on loss and damage fund after decades of advocacy

By Jon Letman November 25, 2022November 25, 2022

As Pacific leaders and activists celebrate the announcement of the fund to assist poor nations hit by climate disasters for three decades, they say “more needed to be done”

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