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Magiagi conservation area management plan 2024-2029

Biodiversity Conservation

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Atherton, James

Esera, Fata Lafi

Etuale, Seiuli Ioane

Tipamaa, Faleafaga Toni

Uili, Sefuiva Moeumu

The Magiagi leaders, Pulega a Alii ma faipule wishes to dedicate a part of their land to establish a Rainforest Conservation Area (RCA). Their vision is for the protection and preservation of their natural and cultural resources to benefit current and future generations. The Management Plan 9MP), identifies key values of the Conservation Area (CA) and a set of objectives and strategies are developed to restore, protect and safeguard those values.

Feasibility Study of implementing Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production in Samoa

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This study explores the potential of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) processing in Samoa as a sustainable pathway for waste management and economic development. With increasing global concerns over plastic pollution and the urgent need for sustainable alternatives, PHA emerges as a promising biodegradable polymer. Samoa, like many other small island nations, faces challenges in waste management and environmental conservation.

Tonga Single-Use Plastic Roadmap

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This Roadmap outlines strategies and plans to improve plastic circularity in Tonga. The Roadmap is based on scientific, social and economic literature review and developed through an inclusi8ve approach, involving public consultations to establish the guiding principles and mechanisms of a circular for Tonga.

Yearbook of Global Climate Action 2024 : Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action

Climate Change Resilience

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Both climate finance and carbon markets point to the fundamental importance of multilateral cooperation. The Global Action Portal shows a lot of promise in this respect. It is mapping so many initiatives from non-Party stakeholders, empowering frontrunners to inspire others to follow. The climate crisis, once a distant warning, has become an undeniable, ever-present force impacting lives, ecosystems and economies with acceleration intensity.

Sharks and rays of the Samoan archipelago: a review of their biological diversity, social and cultural values, and conservation status

Biodiversity Conservation

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Nunis, Tori

Both Samoa and American Samoa have relatively diverse shark and ray communities with management plans in place to protect chondrichthyans. These include participation in Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission initiatives, spatial protections, and community-based management programs. Implications. Current management approaches have the potential to provide significant protection to sharks and rays, however, their effectiveness may be hindered by a lack of proper enforcement, or compliance at the national and community levels.

Additions to the naturalised vascular flora of the Kingdom of Tonga

Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Heenan, P.B.

This paper is a further contribution to the naturalised flora of Tonga in documenting 19 species newly recognised from the archipelago. These 19 species are treated as the single broad category of naturalised whereby they form a wild population(s) self-maintained by seed or vegetative reproduction (following Webb et al. 1988).

New records for the flora of Niue: Crepidomanes saxifragoides (C.Presl) P.S.Green (Hymenophyllaceae), Erigeron bellioides DC. (Asteraceae) and Psidium cattleyanum Sabine (Myrtaceae)

Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Heenan, P.B.

Mamaia, I.

Pasisi, S.

Tongatule. H.

Recent field surveys of the flora of Niue have identified three new species records for the island. Erigeron bellioides DC. (Asteraceae) and Psidium cattleyanum Sabine (Myrtaceae) are new naturalised records and Crepidomanes saxifragoides (C.Presl) P.S.Green (Hymenophyllaceae) is an addition to the indigenous flora.

State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2023

Climate Change Resilience, PCCP

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The report of the State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2023 provides details regarding temperature, precipitation, tropical cyclones, extreme events and their socioeconomic impacts. The transition form La Nina to El Nino conditions in the course of 2023 influenced weather and climate patterns in the region. However although the 2023/2024 El Nino event in ending, climate change continues to accelerate.

Surging Seas in a Warming World: The latest sciecne on present-day impacts and future projections of sea-level rise

Climate Change Resilience, PCCP

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Global-mean sea level is rising and accelerating as a direct consequence of human-induced global warming. This rise int he sea level is driven primarily by two factors: the melting of land ice and the expansion of seawater as it warms.

A review of existing guidelines and current practices (Supporting document to the Responsible Marine Wildlife Viewing Guidelines)

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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A review of existing guidelines and current practices is a supporting document to the Responsible Marine Wildlife Viewing Guidelines). Specifically tailored to the Pacific region, the guidelines provide detailed information on how to conduct responsible viewing and ‘swim with’ experiences with whales, dolphins, dugongs, sharks, rays, turtles and seabirds.

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