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The Solomon Islands State of Environment (SoE) Report presents an overview across seven thematic areas: (culture and heritage, atmosphere and climate, coastal and marine, freshwater resources, land, biodiversity and built environment). This report is based on quantitative data relating to the state of environmental supplemented by stakeholders input to describe casual relationships and environmental effects.

This meeting is based on reviewing.amending and finalizing the PRISSMSS Declaration of Intent (fprmerly PRISMSS Charter) in agreement with thew parties.|To discuss the requirements for the Project Management Course|To develope a stocktaking template and collect baseline data in all IS related projects under PRISMSS parties or organization.

The electronic newsletter of the Pacific Invasives Learning Network (PILN) - reporting on invasives news from PILN teams and the Pacific region. Past issues are available online.

Pacific Climate Change Centre handing over document, 2019.

The present study, commissioned by the French Agency for Biodiversity (Agence française pour la biodiversité, AFB), is part of the "Pacific Biodiversity Blue Belt" project. It covers four Pacific island Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs): French Polynesia (PF), New Caledonia (NC), Wallis & Futuna (WF) and Pitcairn (Pi). |Dans le cadre du projet Pacific Biodiversity Blue Belt BEST2.0, coordonné par le Programme Régional Océanien pour l’Environnement (PROE), en partenariat avec l’Agence française pour la biodiversité (AFB), une étude a été réalisée en 2018 à destination des gestionnaires afin de proposer un outil d’aide à la décision relative à l’utilisation de technologies de surveillance des activités humaines dans les aires marines protégées/gérées. Cette étude propose une synthèse des contextes, des activités maritimes et des dispositifs actuels de surveillance, enrichie d'une revue complète des technologies de 2018 adaptées à la surveillance des activités anthropiques en mer. Un outil d’aide à la sélection de solutions technologiques est ensuite présenté, fondé sur une approche multicritères répondant aux besoins exprimés par les gestionnaires.

It is with great pleasure that I send out the Soundbites for the year of 2018. For most of us this time of the year is a mix of trying to get everything completed at work on time and planning what we are doing with our families over the up-coming festive season.

EDF 10 Pacific Hazardous Waste Project. 5 years, 15 countries - 14 Pacific Islands plus Timor Leste

Nous formons un groupe diversifié dans la région du Pacifique, qui s’étend sur environ un tiers de la surface de la Terre et englobe près de la moitié des mers de la planète

This video demonstrates how to use the Tonga Environment Data Portal, created for the Inform project. Through SPREP’s Inform project, 14 countries will have national data portals, and a Pacific Island regional data portal, to share and access environmental and other data.

Rat eradication has become a common conservation intervention in island ecosystems and its effectiveness in protecting native vertebrates is increasingly well documented. Yet, the impacts of rat eradication on plant communities remain poorly understood. Here we compare native and non-native tree and palm seedling abundance before and after eradication of invasive rats (Rattus Rattus) from Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands, Central Pacific Ocean. Overall, seedling recruitment increased for five of the six native trees species examined. While pre-eradication monitoring found no seedlings of Pisonia grandis, a dominant tree species that is important throughout the Pacific region, post-eradication monitoring documented a notable recruitment event immediately following eradication, with up to 688 individual P. grandis seedlings per 100m2 recorded one month post-eradication. Two other locally rare native trees with no observed recruitment in pre-eradication surveys had recruitment post-rat eradication. However, we also found, by five years post-eradication, a 13-fold increase in recruitment of the naturalized and range-expanding coconut palm Cocos nucifera. Our results emphasize the strong effects that a rat eradication can have on tree recruitment with expected long-term effects on canopy composition. Rat eradication released nonnative C. nucifera, likely with long-term implications for community composition, potentially necessitating future management interventions. Eradication, nevertheless, greatly benefited recruitment of native tree species. If this pattern persists over time, we expect long-term benefits for flora and fauna dependent on these native species.