Story | 23 Sep, 2016
Financial sustainability of MPAs
IUCN is providing support to WCS and WWF in work with the Fiji Protected Area Committee to estimate costs of running a national MPA network.
Story | 23 Sep, 2016
Learning and Best Practice in Coastal Resource Management
The project aimed to create synergies from existing best practices in coastal resource management both in terms of sharing lessons and building networks. The key outputs at country level, in Fiji, PNG and the Solomon Islands were increased participation of practitioners in developing national…
Story | 23 Sep, 2016
The project supported the Cook Islands Government in the establishment of one of the world’s largest marine parks: the Cook Islands Marine Park (or Cook Islands Marae Moana). It was funded by Global Blue.
Story | 23 Sep, 2016
Enhancing large Marine Protected Areas (Big MPAs) manager engagement in the Eastern Pacific
The project involves IUCN facilitating meetings between the management of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), the Marae Moana of the Cook Islands, the natural park of the Coral Sea (New Caledonia), and the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument USA (PRIMNM) – four of the world’s…
Story | 22 Sep, 2016
“The GEF-funded Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project researched the ecological impacts of longline tuna fishing in relation to sea mounts. IUCN explored whether there are patterns in the amount and /or size of fish around seamounts and identifying possible spawning or aggregation…
Story | 22 Sep, 2016
Less planning, more action on – and regional approach to - Pacific Islands bêche-de-mer fisheries
The Government of the Kingdom of Tonga was honoured to host the inaugural Regional Technical bêche-de-mer (BdM) meeting in Nuku’alofa in October 2015. With the experiences and many challenges faced in sustainably managing the bêche-de-mer fishery in Tonga and the region as a whole, the…
Story | 22 Sep, 2016
Ha'apai hosts the first ever national workshop on Special Management Areas (SMAs) in Tonga
The first ever national workshop on Special Management Areas (SMAs) was opened on Wednesday 14 October by the Governor of Ha’apai District, Mo’ale Finau. In his opening remarks, Governor Finau stressed that that the whole of Tonga need to embrace the SMA programme in order to preserve all marine…
Story | 22 Sep, 2016
Spatial planning and evidence of the economic benefits of marine and coastal biodiversity can strengthen the management of these vital ecosystems. We are working with partners to undertake this work in selected Pacific Island countries.
Story | 22 Sep, 2016
Pacific Islands show global leadership in oceans
The Pacific islands are united by their relationship with the world’s largest ocean – and by the global threat of the climate crisis which brings with it rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, coastal inundation, increases in sea surface temperature and ocean acidification. This, plus…
Story | 22 Sep, 2016
Pacific representatives at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Honolulu, Hawai’i stressed the need for the reforestation of degraded forest land in Pacific Island countries.