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Reef fish and reef-associated fish are vital ecosystem goods and services that reefs provide to island communities in the Pacific. Coral reefs also attract tourists so can be important sources of tourism income for Pacific island nations. Reef habitats are degrading worldwide due to increasing frequencies of climate-included coral bleaching events and severe tropical storms.

A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries.

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) provides a framework and consultative process to gain a better understanding of how marine areas are used and value by stakeholders to facilitate informed planning and decision making.

The malau or Polynesian megapode was only found on Niuafo'ou until a second population was estanlished relatively recently on Fonualei Island in the vava'u Group.

Participatory three dimensional model (P3DM) is a community engagement tool which integrates spatial data with local "traditional knowledge". This tool is widely used for spatial planning, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and many more.

To accommodate for nesting activity in the future, a human impact assessment of suitable beaches is advised to determine if human habitat alterations have influenced nest-site selection or micro-environments within nest chamber.

Coral reef ecosystems and marine habitats in Vava'u are widely utilized for both subsistence and commercial fisheries, tourism and recreational activities and are important both culturally and economically for the Kingdom of Tonga.

The management plan describes the priority strategies for the Ijuw/Anabar wetlands Proposed Conservation area (PCA) that will best maintain and improve the key conservation values in this area by reducing the impact of threats, including from climate change.

This document provides a plan to protect and enhance the cloud forests of Rarotonga so that their indigenous ecosystems, habitats for endemic species, and water supply functions are preserved in perpetuity.

This report covers the field survey to establish vegetation plots according to data collected during one month survey on Eua national Park. Information gathered during the last survey in 2010 was insufficient to minimize the work that we done on locating the remaining six plots of national park