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All Pacific people have an undeniable connection to their natural environment, resources, livelihoods, faiths, cultural values and traditional knowledge.

This Regional Security Outlook Report draws on specialist analysis from across the region to provide stakeholders with an overview of a board range of current regional security issues and trends. By comparing the challenges and projections outlined in this report, regional decision makers can then consider which issues require most attention and prioritisation, both regionally and in their own national context.

Both introduced law and traditional custom soon get out of date in a changing world, particularly in relation to land tenure.

Low islands in the Pacific Ocean that are far from continets started as underwater vocanoes. The lava from the volcano rose above the ocean surface became an island with high hills or mountains.

There are low and high islands in the Pacific Ocean. All islands have some of the same environments (kinds of places such as coral reff, open ocean and forests)

Summary of 48th PIFS Leaders Meeting in Apia, Samoa

One of the key deliverables of the Forum Compact is to track the progress of Forum island countries (FICs) towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which is the main purpose of this report. The MDGs assessment in this report is not strictly made the global targets, as the assessments are contextualised to country realities and supplemented by proxy data and qualitative information.

The importance of natural resources to the economy of the Pacific island region cannot be overstated. Island communities have unsurprisingly relied heavily on ocean resources for sustenance and economic activities, such as fishing and transport. Land-based resources are also vital at subsistence level, and are providing increasing development opportunities, for example through forestry and mineral mining.

Forum leaders have directed the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) to assist in improving Forum Island Countries' (FICs) access to and management of climate change resources. The assessment framework presented in this report is part of several initiatives being coordinated and/or supported by PIFS in response to this direction.

A compilation of reports on Status of Coral Reefs for Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa, Tonga & Tuvalu.