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Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) Partners Dialogue Outcome - Summary report, 12-13 March 2025

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience, PCCP

Available Online

The "Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) Partners Dialogue on Long Term Sustainability Plan for Building a Climate Resilient Pacific" was successfully held on March 12-13 2025 at the PCCC in Vailima, Samoa. The Dialogue brought together government officials, representatives from donor partners, private sector, civil society organisations, youth representatives, regional organisation, international financial institutions, academic institutions ad other stakeholders to not only embrace the journey of the PCCC since 2019 but also discuss the PCCC's long-term sustainability and predictable financial support. This event marked the first Partners Dialogue as a biennial coordination mechanism to support the PCCC's mission and vision fostering long term resilience sustainability.

State of Finance for Forests 2025: Unlock. Unleash. Realizing Forest Potential requires Tripling Investments in Forests by 2030

Biodiversity Conservation

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Bukera, Emma

Flores, Gabriela

Lei, Ning

Olsen, Nathalie

The first edition of the State of Finance for Forests (SFF) report provides an overview of global public and private financial flows to forests in 2023, comparing these finance flows to the investment needed to unlock forests' potential to address climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation.

Pacific voices urge experts to 'decolonise'adaptation at New Zealand's largest climate forum

Climate Change Resilience, Climate Science and Information

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Pacific leaders believe climate experts are missing an opportunity to incorporate indigenous knowledge into adaptation measures. The call has been made as hundreds of scientist, global leaders, and climate adaptation experts around the globe gather at the Adaptation Futures Conference in Christchurch.

Samoa Green Livelihoods Community Kit : A Traniners' Resource for Community Course Implementation

Biodiversity Conservation

Available Online

It is important to respect Samoa’s traditional knowledge, values, pre-existing perceptions and relationship towards environment, conservation, and community development. Effective community engagement needs cooperation from community members, stakeholders, community leaders, partners, and all those in association with the engagement effort—especially village and community leadership. This must be trustbased. Building relationships is a key part of reciprocal respect and a foundation of learning.

Review of the Traditional Knowledge Seabirds in the Pacific Ocean

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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Lamaris, John

Peter, Allen

Rohan, Clarke

Traditional knowledge is a system of collective understandings transferred through communities across generations. It includes indigenous peoples' knowledge of the natural environment and the ecosystems they occupy, which is founded upon long-term and deeply meaningful connections between people and place. This means traditional knowledge often contains vital perspectives and information relevant tot he conservation of wildlife, especially in remote areas where academic research has been historically limited.

Save the Manumea : A National Campaign Strategy 2019-2020

Biodiversity Conservation

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Samoa's national bird, the Manumea, is a scientific curiosity a key player in a healthy Samoan rainforest and a cultural icon for Samoa. Unique to Samoa it is also highly threatened and at risk of extinction in our lifetimes. The purpose of this campaign is to identify and adopt the specific changes in behaviour that we need to take to save our national bird, before it is too late.

Recovery Plan 2020-2029 Manumea | Tooth-Billed Pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris)

Biodiversity Conservation

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The critically endangered Manumea or Tooth-billed pigeon is found only in Samoa and is highly significant in its cultural heritage. The pigeon only lives within and on the edges of intact mature native forest. Its number appear to have dropped dramaitically during the last 10-15 years, mostly through loss of habitat, hunding and possibly due to the impact of introduces invasive predators.

Rodent Control Manual : A Practical Guide for Rodent Control for Communities and Technicians Working in Samoa

Biodiversity Conservation

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The purpose o the manual is provide practical guidance to technicians attempting to plan and control rodents (rats and mice) using poison baiting for biodiversity conservation purposes under Samoan forest conditions. The methodology outlined in this manual is the result of efforts to assess the effectiveness of using rodent bait at the Malololelei Recreation reserve since 2017.

Pentecost Terrestrial Biodiversity Assessment Report

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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Doro, Thomas Morris

Morris, Andrew

Wotlolan, Dean

et al

The North Pentecost Key Biodiversity Area was identified under the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund East Melanesian Islands Ecosystem Profile. The trigger species for the KBA comprised Vanuatu White-eye and New Hebrides Honeyeater. The survey, in 2022, indicated that, while Vanuatu White-eye occurs commonly throughout the KBA, the total area of the legacy site is less than 1% of the total range of the White-eye. Therefore, this species does not qualify as a trigger species under the KBA Standard (2016).

Working with Nature for Community Climate Adaptation: a guide for facilitating community discussions on nature-based solutions in Pacific Islands

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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This guide is a resource to help Pacific communities start conversations on Nature-based Solutions, drawing on traditional knowledge and relationships with nature to strengthen resilience to climate change

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