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Cook Islands seabed minerals: a precautionary approach to mining.

Biodiversity Conservation

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McCormack, Gerald

The Cook Islands is a small country in the central South Pacific which French Polynesia to the east and Samoa to the west.

Contemporary Used Oil Audits, in the Cook Islands.

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Elbezewiscz S & Talouli A

The Secretariat of the Pacific Enironment Programme (SPREP) retained Golder Associates New Caledonia Sarl (Golder) to perform contemporay used oil audits in Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu to establish volumes of lubricating, hydraulic and transmissions oils imported into each country and the volume of used oil produced, and stored or otherwise disposed of. The main sources of used oil are power generation and moto vehicles. Used oil contains high levels of heavy metals and some amounts of more toxic chemicals.

Cook Islands biodiversity strategy and action plan (NBSAP) : 2002

Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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McCormack, Gerald

The Cook Islands signed the Convention on Biological Diversity at the Earth Summit in 1992. As a Party to the Convention, the Cook Islands Government committed itself and its people to conserve its biodiversity, to use it in a sustainable manner, and to share its benefits in an equitable manner. It also committed itself to control invasive species (the weeds and pest animals in natural ecosystems and agricultural systems), and to reduce the likelihood of future invasions.

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