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Tetrachloroethene

State of the reserve Northwestern Hawaiian isllands coral reef ecosystem reserve 2000-2005; Review of the management of the Northwestern hawaiian islands coral reef ecosystems reserve under the national marine sanctuaries amenmenbts Adct (P.L. 106-513) and section 304(e) of the National marine sanctuaries act (16 U.S.C 1434 (e))

Biodiversity Conservation

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National marine Sanctuary Program

This report provides a summary of progress made toward implementation of the reserve operations plan (ROP) and the activities and accomplishments of NDAA;s Northernwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve. This reserves include submerged lands and waters of the NWHI and extends approximately 1,200 nautical miles long and 100 nautical miles wide.

Pacific Island mangroves in a changing climate and rising seas

Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

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Gilman, E.H. (et.al)

Mangroves in a Changing Climate and Rising Sea v Fig. 1. Pacific island coastlines are particularly sensitive to sea level rise (photo by J. Ellison). Key Messages and Next Steps Compared to just a few decades ago, the ever-increasing number and strength of forces affecting coastal ecosystems, including mangroves, require coastal managers to respond and adapt to ensure the sustainability of valued ecosystem services and products. One of the major challenges in the Pacific Islands region is adjusting to the responses of coastal ecosystems to the climate change-induced rise of relative sea levels by developing and implementing appropriate, affordable, and cost-effective adaptation measures with limited resources.

Acting together : a common commitment to the global environment - International co-operation on biodiversity, climate change and desertification

Climate Change Resilience

European Commission

Status of birds and rodents on Niue following cyclone Heta in January 2004

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Butler, D.J.

Powlesland, D.J.

Westbrooke, I.M.

On 6 January 2004. cyclone Heta devastated much of the South Pacific island nation of Niue. Extensive damage was done to forest, particularly of the north- western sector, with many trees up-rooted and others stripped of branches and foliage. This report details our findings from a survey of Niue's birds and rodents during 3-19 September 2004 and compares these with results from a similar survey in September 1994. Five-minute bird count data, an index of conspicuousness, from three transects showed that heahea (Polynesian triller,Lalagc maculosa) were more abundant in 2004 than in 1994, but mid (Polynesian starling, Aplonis tabuensis), kulukulu (purple-crowned fruit dove. Ptilinopus porpbyraecus) and lupe (Pacific pigeon. Ducula pacifica) had declined. The 28-64% decline in the lupe population per transect w as probably primarily as a result of hunting, rather than mortality caused by cyclone Heta. Counts of birds seen per kilometre along three sections of road (lower, upper, inland) were also compared with September 1994 data. However, for various reasons we doubt that the results accurately reflect population numbers. The 212 kiu (Pacific golden plover. Pluvial is fulva) counted at sites accessible from main roads in September 2004 was similar to the 226 seen in September 1994. Rat trapping results (captures per 100 trap-nights) along the same three transects for December 1994 and September 2004 were not significantly different. Both kuma (Pacific rat. Rattus exulans) and ship rats (R. rattus) were trapped, but kuma were found only in regenerating scrub, whereas ship rats were present in both scrub and forest. Recommendations for future work are made mainly in relation to the long-term conservation of lupe, a toaga (treasured) species of Niueans.

Strategie de gestion des dechets solides pour la region Pacifique :

Biodiversity Conservation

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

L'Oceanic et ses 22 pays1 et territoires2 presentent un large eventail de caracteristiques physiques, demographiques, Culturelles, economiques etpolitiques. Elle couvre 30 millions de kilometres canes, soit pies d'un sixieme de la surface de la terre. et est trois fois plus grande que les Etats-Unis ou la Chine. Plus de 98 % de sa superficie est constitute d'oceans et les 2 % restants sont occupes par environ 7 500 lies dont seulement 500 sont habitees. La population totale de la region s'eleve a environ 8 millions d'habitants, dont 5.1 millions en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee, et le taux de croissance demosraphique annuelle y est d'environ 2.2 % (CPS, 2002).

Global environmental governance / James Gustave Speth, Peter M. Haas

Speth, James Gustave

governance

Land degradation thematic assessment report - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - Samoa, 2006

Climate Change Resilience

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Ministry of Natural Resource, Environment & Meteorology (MNREM)

The overarching goal of the NCSA Project is to undertake an assessment of Samoa's capacity to address environmental issues affecting the wider public and local populations with particular emphasis on building effective national capacity to implement the three (3) Rio Conventions namely; the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) which would, in the end, required a synergy of crosscutting issues and a subsequent action plan. It aims to develop a plan for the implementation of key activities identified as priority actions to address capacity needs and constraints identified by the three Conventions. The NCSA Process adopted by Samoa comprises five (5) main phases: Inception Phase, Stocktaking Phase, Thematic Assessment, Crosscutting Assessment and Action Plan development. The NCSA project has achieved the first two phases of which are the Inception and Stocktaking Phases. The current stage of the NCSA process is the Thematic Assessment Phase which necessitates the production of this Thematic Assessment Report to focus primarily on the assessment of Samoa's capacity to meet its global environmental objectives under the UNCCD in the context of land degradation as it affects Samoa.

samoa

The South Pacific albacore fishery : a summary fo the status of the stock and fishery management

Biodiversity Conservation

Langley, Adam D.

Fuel for life : household energy and health

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