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Global Environment Facility : Country support programme: knowledge facility for GEF Focal points - Pacific islands
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GEF

2007
Biorock coral reef restoration and shore protection projects in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands: preliminary report
Biodiversity Conservation
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Goreau, Thomas J.

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Hagberg, Erik

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Trevor Michael

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Trevor, Doan

2007
The Marshall Islands are critically dependent on the health of their coral reefs: every rock and sand grain on the islands are the remains of coral reef organisms. Only actively growing coral reefs can protect the islands against ocean waves and global sea level rise, and provide fish to feed the people. These crucial services are rapidly deteriorating because global warming is bleaching and killing corals, while also accelerating the spread and virulence of coral-killing diseases. As a result every atoll island has a serious erosion problem, which will get much worse as global sea level rise and storm intensity accelerate, unless the reefs that protect the islands can be grown back. The solutions now being used to protect the shoreline are both costly and ineffective. In order to demonstrate practical solutions to these problems we started three pilot coral reef restoration projects and one pilot shore protection project in Majuro using Bjorock® Technology in early 2007.
The Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities
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United Nations Environment Programme

1995
Global Sustainable Energy Island Initiative
Biodiversity Conservation
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GSEII

The IPCC report and its Implications for the Pacific
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation
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Roper Tom

2007
Plants and Environments of the Marshall Islands
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Merlin, Mark ... [et al.]

Relationships among native and alien plants on Pacific islands with and without significant human disturbance and feral ungulates
Biodiversity Conservation
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Juvik James O

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Merlin Mark D

The native plants of remote tropical islands have been frequently characterized as poor competitors against seemingly more aggressive alien species.. Does this "weak competitor" characterization relate to some real adaptive consequences of island isolation and endemism, or does the generally concurrent presence of introduced ungulates and other forms of recurrent human disturbance also act to encourage alien plant dominance? A comparison of tropical islands with and without introduced ungulates suggests that some insular plant species competitively resist alien displacement in the absence of ungulates.
Reports on invasive species on Pacific islands: survey report: American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana islands, Rota, Saipan, Tinian, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Yap, Guam, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Tonga
Biodiversity Conservation, BRB
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Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)

2011
Report to the Government of Samoa on Invasive Plant Species of Environmental Concern
BRB
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Flynn Tim

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Spaces, James C

2002
The objectives of the survey were to: (1) identify plant species presently causing problems to natural and semi-natural ecosystems; (2) identify species that, even though they are not presently a major problem, could spread more widely or are known to be problem species elsewhere; (3) confirm the absence of species that are a problem elsewhere and, if introduced to Samoa, could be a threat there; and (4) make appropriate recommendations.
Observation on invasive plant species in American Samoa / by James C. Space and Tim Flynn
BRB
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Space, J.C. and Flynn, T.

1999
This is a continuation of the survey of islands in Micronesia and American Samoa for invasive plant species requested by the Pacific Islands Committee, Council of Western State Foresters. A survey of selected Micronesian islands was conducted in 1998 and was discussed in a previous report2. This report is based on perceptions gained from a trip to American Samoa from 16 to 23 July 1999, including the islands of Tutuila, Ofu, Olosega and Ta'u. The objectives were three-fold: (1) To identify plant species on the islands that are presently causing problems to natural and semi-natural ecosystems; (2) to identify species that, even though they are not presently a major problem, could spread more widely or spread to other islands where they are not present, potentially causing problems; and (3) to confirm the absence of species that are a problem elsewhere and, if introduced to American Samoa, could be a threat there.

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