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Managing Invasive Species to Create a Great Green Line of Defense for the Pacific. Controlling invasive species is one of the most effective tool for restoring island resilience.

A speech by the Minister for Climate Change New Zealand, honorable James Shaw during COP 15 in 2022 declared his support on any and all efforts to scale up the management of Invasive species. This is critical as a key action for increasing the climate resilience of Pacific Islands.

PRISMSS is a coalition of organisations working together to tackle the issue of Invasive species in the Pacific, providing Pacific Island countries with access to best practice and expertise in managing invasive species. Five programmes of PRISMSS involve Protect Our Islands, Predator Free Pacific, War On Weeds, Natural Enemies Natural Solutions, and Resilient Ecosystems Resilient Communities which address all thematic areas of IS management.

At the COP 27 on 12 November 2022, the management of invasive species was discussed as a key action for increasing the resilience in the Pacific Island nations. Featuring David Eades, Climate change evokes passion, anger, but it also encourages human ingenuity problem solving. Invasive species management is one really good example of that because it makes Pacific Island states that much more resilient to climate change. Invasive species don't allow systems to be in good health if you look around the Pacific there's a lot of impacts from invasive species that don't allow our ecosystems and Islands to function the way that they usually would have I would I would encourage the other small island states in the Pacific and throughout the world to consider because these are the stresses that we have to remove from the equation to be able to combat the climate change when we link it to the climate change and disaster

In this video, Steve Menzies of Flinch Marketing introduces the invasive species Mainstreaming Strategies and invited feedbacks from the audience through the use of Mentimeter.

La région a besoin d’un plan d’actions pour prendre des décisions concertées en vue d’améliorer la santé et la résilience des récifs coralliens. Cela doit permettre aux dirigeants des îles du Pacifique, aux gestionnaires des récifs coralliens et aux communautés locales de coordonner leurs efforts de protection de ces précieux écosystèmes. La coopération régionale peut optimiser les synergies entre différents programmes pour parvenir à de meilleurs résultats, par exemple en partageant les connaissances et en tirant parti des économies d’échelle. Un Plan régional peut également servir de base à la mobilisation des ressources financières nécessaires pour la protection et la gestion des récifs coralliens.

The region needs an action plan to make cohesive decisions that will benefit coral reefs. This will enable leaders of Pacific Island countries, coral-reef managers and community members to coordinate their efforts to protect these valuable ecosystems. Regional cooperation can optimise synergies between programmes and actions to achieve better outcomes, by sharing knowledge and using economies of scale. A regional plan can also provide the basis for securing the funds needed to protect and manage coral reefs.

This is a newsletter about what has been happening lately around the globe. From bushfires in Australia to COVID-19 pandemic and then to Tropical cyclone Harold that hit our neigbhouring countries (Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga and Solomon Island). Mainly these problems are caused by climate change around the world which affects the health of people and their environment that they live in.

This island nation contains many marine eco-systems, from globally significant coral reefs to mangroves, seagrass areas, seamounts and deep-sea trenches supporting at least 769 fish species, including sharks and rays, as well as whales, dolphins and sea turtles.

The Union continued to shape global policy along so many essential dimensions – illustrating the centrality of IUCN’s work to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Much needed attention was, for instance, given to the plight of our oceans and IUCN was very active in the Ocean Conference for implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 (June) as well as the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (July) which focused, in particular, on SDG 14. Not to mention negotiations on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction which made significant and welcome progress this year. Drawing on IUCN’s unique Commission structure, the Union is able to bring excellence, relevance and science to international fora for enhanced sustainability outcomes.