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A video in Samoan language for "Keeping Samoa Clean". Portraying the implementation of Waste Management Pollution control in Samoa to keep the environment clean at all cost for their land, sea and people to have a brighter and healthy Samoa for the future.

This guide presents a framework that identifies nine essential elements that field practitioners have found useful to consider in their work. Think of these elements as "stepping stones" along a path. The path begins with a natural resouijce or conservation problem or issue you have identified and takes steps toward a socially and ecologically sustainable solution to the problem.

The arcid bivalve Anadara uropigimelana (te bun) is the most important shellfish resource in the central atolls of Tungaru (former Gilbert Islands), with a yearly catch of ca. 1400 tons on South Tarawa alone. Species of Anadara s.s. are also important in artisanal shellfisheries on several central Pacific islands. Tungaru atolls lying in the highly productive zone of equatorial upwelling harbor dense te bun beds, while those occurring outside this zone have fewer Anadara. Te bun are abundant in seagrass beds, lagoonal shoals, and shallow-lagoon bottoms. They reproduce year round with a lunar spawning periodicity. Size frequency data and observations on the occurrence of small juveniles indicate that, despite frequent reproduction, there is high spatio-temporal variation in recruitment within the Tarawa lagoon. One massive recruitment event in 1993 opened a novel fishery in Bonriki village, where no te bun were available for two decades previously. Highly variable recruitment, as well as changes in the extent of seagrass habitats, may explain marked historical fluctuations in the abundance of this important resource.

Mangrove is a type of forest growing along tidal mudflats and along shallow water coastal areas extending inland along rivers, streams and their tributaries where the water is generally brackish. The mangrove ecosystem is dominated by mangrove trees as the primary producer interacting with associated aquatic fauna, social and physical factors of the coastal environment.

Report of the Fifth Ordinary and Plenipotentiary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Conservation of Nature in the South Pacific (Apia Convention) and Fifth Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region and related Protocols (SPREP Convention), 9 October 2000, Guam

The coral reefs of Indonesia are currently under threat of degradation from both natural and human activities. Human destruction of coral reefs by bomb fishing, cyanide poisoning or anchor damage is now the target of a variety of public awareness campaigns. Natural causes of reef degradation include typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, coral bleaching from above-normal sea surface temperatures, and Crown-of-Thorns (COTs) starfish outbreaks. While human causes can be controlled and reversed, natural causes are more problematic. Outbreaks of COTs, however, sometimes offer an opportunity for successful human intervention.

This book provides an overview of biodiversity sites and the economics perspectives

The decision to undertake a review of the current Action Plan (1997-2000) was made at the 9e SpngP Meeting held in Nukualofa on25-27 November 1996. The SPREP Work Programme and Budget Sub-Committee that met in Apia on 16-18November 1999 called for a "forward-looking approach with in-depth member country consultations and input, as a crucial aspect of the review, to ensure strong country ownership of the 2001 - 2004 Action Plan"

This Annual Report notes the major achievements of SPREP in supporting Pacific island countries and territories to address issues relating to: biodiversity and ecosystem management, waste management and pollution and environmental monitoring and governance