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Vemööre Declaration : Commitments to nature conservation action in the Pacific Islands region, 2021-2025
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
“Vemööre” is a term in the Kwenyï language spoken by people from the Isle of Pines in New Caledonia. It is used to highlight a collective commitment and responsibility to implement the...
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Global Mangrove Distribution - Global Mangrove Watch
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) is a collaboration between Aberystwyth University (U.K.), solo Earth Observation (soloEO; Japan), Wetlands International the World Conservation Monitoring...
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Global Distribution of Seamounts and Knolls
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This dataset shows the global distribution of seamounts and knolls identified using global bathymetric data at 30 arc-sec resolution. A total of 33,452 seamounts and 138,412 knolls were...
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General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
GEBCO's aim is to provide the most authoritative publicly-available bathymetry of the world's oceans. It operates under the joint auspices of the International Hydrographic...
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International Seabed Authority Annual Report 2020
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Minerals are non-renewable resources (at least within human timeframes) but mining them is now apparently a sustainable enterprise, not a one-way street of exploitation. ISA provides an...
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Global Reef Expedition - Pacific Ocean
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation completed field research for one of the largest coral reef studies in history: the Global Reef Expedition. The Expedition travelled around...
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CSIRO Bioregions of the South West Pacific Ocean
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This project has developed sub-regional bioregionalisations for the western-south Pacific Ocean, through expert workshops and novel statistical analysis of physical and biological data....
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From happy hour to hungry hour: Logging, fisheries and food security in Malaita, Solomon Islands
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This study by WorldFish assesses the local impacts of logging on food security, fisheries and well-being in Malaita.
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An assessment of the risks and impacts of seabed mining on marine ecosystems
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Comprehensive assessment of the risks and impacts of seabed mining on marine ecosystems by Fauna and Flora International.
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Coastal Ecosystem-based Rehabilitation Guide
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This guide helps communities understand the pressures people may place on beaches and suggests how natural processes or ecosystem based approaches can be used can encourage sand to come...
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Regional Inform Meeting Draft Report 2019
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Draft report of the Regional Inform Meeting held August 2019 for comments from meeting participants
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Mapping Mining to SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the world’s plan of action for social inclusion, environmental sustainability and...
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Noumea Convention
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Convention for the Protection of Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region (1986) is also known as the SPREP Convention or Noumea Convention. The Convention has...
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Framework for Pacific Regionalism
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Forum Leaders embrace Pacific regionalism as: The expression of a common sense of identity and purpose, leading progressively to the sharing of institutions, resources, and markets, with...
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Vision for effective and streamlined reporting in the Pacific
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
A workshop was jointly convened by the Pacificc Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and SPREP in March 2012 in Fiji to provide a vision for more effective and streamlined reporting in the...
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Inform Project Regional Meeting 2019
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The objective of this regional meeting is to build the capacity of the 14 project target countries, with an aim to build an open data community amongst the users of the national data...
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Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This report reviews available information on the adverse effects of 14 alien vertebrates considered to be ‘significant invasive species’ on islands of the South Pacific and Hawaii.
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Assessing Tropical Marine Invertebrates: a Manual for Pacific Island Resource Managers
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This manual is designed for fisheries and environmental officers, and non-governmental partners who are tasked with assessing the state of fisheries resources and macro-invertebrate...
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The state of plant conservation on Pacific islands
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This study examines the status of plant conservation in Oceania, where most islands have experienced two waves of anthropogenic habitat alteration and extinction, following Austronesian...
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Developing a Marine Spatial Plan - a toolkit for the Pacific
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This toolkit outlines the basic process of developing a national marine spatial plan. It has been tailored specifically for use by Pacific Island countries based upon lessons learned in...