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The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation

The Roundtable for Nature Conservation is the largest cross-sectoral coalition of donors, NGOs, regional organisations and national governments working in nature conservation in the Pacific

http://www.sprep.org/Roundtable/

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The Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry Forum

The PNG Eco-Forestry Forum is a not-for-profit incorporated association formed in 1999 with the goal of promoting integrated rural community development and sustainable resource use through a viable and sustainable eco-forestry industry. The PNG Eco-Forestry Forum has core funding from The MacArthur Foundation and receives additional support from the PNG Community Development Scheme and Voluntary Service Overseas.

http://www.ecoforestry.org.pg/index.html

(Added: Mon Dec 10 2001   Modified: Fri Jul 14 2006   Hits: 210)

The World's Largest Conservation Union Invests in Oceania [PDF]

Suva, Fiji, 18 October 2005 (IUCN) - The World Conservation Union (IUCN), the world's largest environmental organization, is opening a new chapter in its long history of collaboration with environmental institutions in the South Pacific with the establishment of its Oceania Programme.

http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2005/10/pr_oceania_office.pdf

(Added: Mon Nov 28 2005   Hits: 82)

Tuna: A Key Economic Resource in the Pacific: On-line Edition

From ADB.org Publications. This online report highlights the importance of tuna in the economies of the Pacific countries. Considering the limited exploitable resource of these countries, it may be argued that for people of the Pacific, tuna is not only a key resource but often the key resource. The future food security and economic development of the Pacific region will undoubtedly be linked to the responsible and sustainable management of its tuna resources. This report provides valuable insights into how such resource management can be achieved.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Reports/Tuna/default.asp

(Added: Thu Mar 07 2002   Modified: Tue Oct 26 2004   Hits: 151)

Tuvalu seeks help in US global warming lawsuit

SOUTH AFRICA: August 30, 2002 JOHANNESBURG - The Pacific island state of Tuvalu wants to enlist Caribbean and Indian Ocean nations in a planned lawsuit blaming the United States and Australia for global warming that could sink them beneath the waves. Finance Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu said this week that Tuvalu, a chain of nine coral atolls whose highest point is just four metres (13 feet) above sea level, expects to be ready to launch formal legal action against both within a year. "We are fighting a giant," he told Reuters during the Earth Summit in Johannesburg of a plan to take on the United States, the outline of which was unveiled in March. "It is one of the few options we have." He said he was lobbying other low-lying nations at the World Summit on Sustainable Development join it in lawsuits.

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/17514/story.htm

(Added: Mon Sep 02 2002   Modified: Mon Jul 17 2006   Hits: 218)

UNEP ISLANDS Web Site

This site, assembled by the Coral Reef Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme, provides access to a number of resources concerning islands, primarily from within the United Nations system, that are otherwise rather scattered and difficult to obtain. It includes basic UN documents or extracts from documents relevant to islands, educational materials concerning islands, and a directory listing some 2,000 islands and giving their basic geographic, environmental and socio-economic characteristics.

http://islands.unep.ch/

(Added: Fri May 17 2002   Modified: Fri Jul 14 2006   Hits: 202)

Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific

The human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world's population, around four billion people, live. This, the fifth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, asks will global warming send Asia and the Pacific 'Up in Smoke'? (IIED, 2007)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=10020IIED

(Added: Tue Nov 20 2007   Modified: Fri Mar 28 2008   Hits: 92)

Vanuatu Mechanic Going to Town on Tank of Coconut Oil

Spending time with Mr. Deamer is an extended lesson in the benefits of coconut oil over petroleum. Among the other advantages: it doesn't make black smoke, it is less costly (at least in the South Pacific), it has the potential to stimulate employment among local coconut growers, and, perhaps most importantly for the world at large, it is an environmentally friendly fuel.

http://166.122.164.43/archive/2003/August/08-21-feature.htm

(Added: Tue Aug 26 2003   Modified: Mon Jul 17 2006   Hits: 347)

Wise Coastal Practices: Towards sustainable small-island living

Results of a workshop on 'Wise coastal practices for sustainable human development in small island developing states' Apia, Samoa, 3-8 December 2000. This report describes the results of a workshop held in Samoa in 2000, with participants from the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific regions, designed to focus on ways to advance action on the priority problem areas identified by SIDS; to advance and interlink the small-island pilot project and university chair/twinning net work activities; to discuss project evaluation; to explore the potential for new CSI activities in the Indian and Pacific Oceans; to interact with other non-CSI small-island programmes and projects in the Pacific; and to provide for formal and informal professional interaction and exchange.

http://www.unesco.org/csi/pub/papers/samoa.htm

(Added: Mon Mar 24 2003   Modified: Tue Oct 26 2004   Hits: 145)

World Water Day 22 March 2005-"Water For Life"

The theme for this year's World Water Day challenges us to look at "Water for life". The United Nations General Assembly at its 58th session in December 2003 proclaimed the years 2005-2015 as the international "Water for Life Decade". The decade sets the world's goals on a "greater focus on water related issues, striving to ensure the participation of women in water related development efforts and further cooperation at all levels to achieve water-related targets of the Millennium Development Goals". Similar to the last 3 World Water Day campaigns in the Pacific, SOPAC will collaborate with Live and Learn, a regional non-governmental organisation in environmental education, to develop this year's campaign and to provide country representatives, focal points, schools and other interested parties with information packs and materials.

http://www.sopac.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=WORLD+WATER+DAY+22+March+2005+-+WATER+FOR+LIFE

(Added: Tue Mar 22 2005   Modified: Tue Jun 14 2005   Hits: 106)

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