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The following guide has been produced to help governments and others implement an aspect of one of these core elements: a gap analysis for a nation’s current system of protected areas, within the framework of the CBD. It provides background information and a step-by-step guide, outlines tools and existing information and gives some case studies, where real-life examples can help to illustrate particular points. Perhaps most important of all, given the great variability in access to biodiversity data around the world, it lays out some generalised principles and a framework within which a variety of approaches can be accommodated. It also acts as a portal to the Earth Conservation Toolbox, an on-line source of methodologies for the ecosystem approach in development that contains a large amount of information likely to be useful in carrying out both the gap analysis and other elements in the Programme of Work

This guide provides teachers with classroom resources for sustainability education for the students of Fiji, linked to the curriculum. Activities in the guide give opportunities for students to share views and ideas, and generate solutions for issues that concern them. Students are encouraged to develop critical thinking, communication, creativity, responsibility, sound values and decision making. Teachers can adapt these activities in different class levels and subject areas.

Sustainability achieved only when there is full reconciliation between (1) economic development (2) meeting, on and equitable basis growing and changing human needs and aspirations and (3) conserving the limited natural resources and the capacity of the environment to absorb the multiples stresses that are a consequence of human activities

While island societies can do little to control carbon emissions from developed nations, they can manage their local resources to enhance the ecosystem services that coastal habitats, including reefs provide for people.

Wildlife watching activities play a significant and growing part in the tourism industry, and create direct and indirect economic benefits for many countries and communities - especially amongst developing countries. This form of tourism can certainly make important contributions to conservation by raising awareness of the animals observed and their habitats, by creating revenues for conservation and by creating jobs for local communities.

Population centres in low atoll islands have water supply problems that are amongst the most critical in the world. Fresh groundwater, the major source of water in many atolls, is extremely vulnerable to natural processes and human activities

Sea turtles migrate vast distances across ocean basins, living complex life histories within pelagic, coastal and beach habitats of numerous Pacific nations.

Sea turtle tagging activities have been practiced in the Southeast Asian region since 1950's. Researchers in this region have been using various designs of tags made from Monel, titanium, plastic...

Think of a challenging conservation problem you have encounters - protecting a rare species, winning support for legislation, cleaning up a river, or sustainably managing a forest.