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Restoring island resilience: managing invasive species for a resilient Pacific Wednesday, December 7, 16:00 - 17:00 ET Addressing invasive species can increase the climate resilience of Pacific Island ecosystems and communities. The GEF supported the development of the Pacific Regional Invasive Species Management Support Service as a regional mechanism to scale up support and help countries to mainstream invasive species management. This event will discuss the wide-ranging impacts of invasive species management for biodiversity, SDGs, and beyond. Atelaite Lupe Matoto - Director of Environment, Tonga Stuart Chape - Director, Island and Ocean Ecosystems, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme Richard Griffiths - Island Conservation Sarah Wyatt - Biodiversity Specialist, SIDS regional team, GEF

The workshop is designed to build awareness and gauge feedback from people working in the environment, agriculture and forestry sectors with knowledge and interest in weeds impacting their country and the Pacific region. This will determine priorities for future action such as the development of new natural enemies. The workshop were held virtually as three 1- hour sessions via Zoom on 30th November and 1st December 2022. This will be followed by a wrap up session on 19th January 2023.

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

The Battler Lounge webinar series talks about the link between rats, seabirds, ecosystems and reef resilience in the Pacific.

Highlight stories from around the region about the significant linkages between rats management, seabirds, ecosystems, and reef resilience. *