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Environment resource education guide: Years 7, 8,9,10

Environmental Governance

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Faasau Masa

Mangroves are trees that live halfway between land and sea. This is what makes them special; as for most plants salt water is deadly. Mangroves are among the few trees that can grow in seawater and in places where the seawater mixes with the fresh water from the land. In Samoa, most of the mangroves grow in areas protected by coral reefs. They are found in coastal areas, especially in river estuaries - the wide lower part of a river's lower end where it meets the sea.

Making land work Volume Two: case studies on customary land and development in the Pacific

Biodiversity Conservation

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Commonwealth of Australia

Pacific governments and communities are increasingly realising there is a need to strengthen and improve their systems for managing and using land. Since 2004 Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu have been developing major programs to reform land policy. Papua New Guinea has already begun implementing its own program—a long-term and sweeping initiative that aims to underpin the nation’s economic development agenda.

SOPAC water, sanitation and Hygiene, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Biodiversity Conservation

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Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission

SOPAC water, sanitation and hygiene for Pacific Island countries

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