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Sharks and rays are among the most threatened vertebrates on the planet, facing intense pressure from overfishing, habitat loss and degradation and inadequate protection across critical sites for life-history processes and their migratory ranges.

'Oceanic diplomacy' as concept and practice : When practitioners and scholars think of Pacific diplomacy, they usually have in mind a form of diplomacy built on Western practices and protocols, and focused on the engagement between modern sovereign Pacific Islands states and their accredited ambassadors.

About 75% of GDP in Asia and the Pacific depends on nature, but it remains overlooked in economic planning. Healthy ecosystems support public health, livelihoods, fiscal stability, and climate resilience. Scaling nature finance requires upgraded governance, policies, and data.

Join Mana and his family on their island home, as they are inspired to become youth leaders for biodiversity. In this story, they meet their local community members who are working to protect the forests, reefs and waters that are so vital for life in the Pacific.

This new book provides substantially more diverse voices and perspectives on navigating toward ocean solutions. It will also serve a broader audience of scholars, practitioners, and students across the place we call Planet Ocean.

The report encapsulates scientific research, social science analysis and Indigenous knowledge in a holistic way, while amplifying the voices of grassroots communities whose wisdom and experiences are often overlooked in climate policy discourses.

Join Mareva and her community as they learn about marine spatial planning in the Pacific. In this comic book, they witness a ship running aground and damaging their local reef. Then they become motivated to speak up about protecting their island and the ocean around it!

Strategic foresight and futures thinking provide creative yet structured ways to think about and plan for the future. They include identifying what is driving change and the implications that those drivers have on the decisions we make today.

Climate change is one of the most pervasive threats humanity faces. Although climate science has long warned against climate change impacts and some efforts have been made to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

This book highlights indigenous weather and climate forecasting knowledge in ni-Vanuatu. This knowledge is documented and shared so that it can be used effectively in disaster risk reduction particularly in remote an less accessible and less accessible regions of Vanuatu as well as providing national cultural resource.