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This is the story of the people of West Papua and their struggle under Indonesian leadership. Due to constant Indonesian migration under the "Transmigration Policy", the rate of deforestation has increased dramatically to make way for further housing developments. This is the story of a unique culture, their way of life, and their fight to upkeep their customs and traditions amidst changes threatening their simple existence, which for many years, have worked in harmony with the environment.

Charlotte Frankovich is a Samoan mother who lost her son to AIDS. A frank and moving interview, she describes her son and the painful experience of losing him to a virus she never thought would touch her life. It was not easy for Charlotte to recount how she lost her boy Nikolai, but she says, "if telling my story could help someone out there, then I would have been so priviledged to have had a chance of talking and telling as to what we've suffered". Charlotte's story is a cooperative effort between the SPC's Community Health Services, the Pacific Women's Resource Bureau, and the Regional Media Centre.

This video provides a detailed tour of an Urban Waste Treatment Plant in Tahiti. It shows the different procedures and machines employed within the plant such as trucks collecting trash from several sites and transporting these to the plant for mechanical crushing and melting of steel and other products.

The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development was held in Rio in 1992. It was the first ever to include a diverse of delegates from both developed and developing countries. Countries with representation included Samoa, Tuvalu, United States of America, Denmark and the Solomon Islands. Although some countries did not sign the Treaty, small island countries like Samoa signed alongside some its neighbouring islands, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.

Whilst there is increasing concern to protect and preserve the remaining rainforests, illegal logging continues in South East Asia where only 14% of the rainforest remains untouched in the Phillipines. As a result, flooding occured killing 7 thousand people. Such illegal logging continues while efforts to regulate their activities have been made difficult by corruption. A second issue is that of the Whaling Industry in Japan. Since the 1950's, whale popularity became widespread it's commercial value led to the expansion of an industry capable of depleting whale population. Fortunately, whale watching is slowly taking over whale consumption as people are now realising that whales are worth more alive than dead. Lastly, the Bazaruto Archipelago offers a unique biodiversity with an abundance of animal and bird species. A conservation project "The Endangered Wildlife Trust", sponsored by WWF and the South African Airways worked together to encourage a more harmonious approach in working with the environment. It is hoped that projects like this will generate greater public awareness and appreciation to protect and preserve this unique biodiversity.

This report details the findings of a two-person climate change task team mission to the Cook Islands during the period January 14-22 1992. The report outlines the possible impacts of climate change and consequent sea-level rise on the natural, physical, social and economic activities perceived by the authorities and organisations in the country. Possible response options were difficult to identify because local scientific information about impacts was not avaiable.