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Forest rehabilitation are efforts to restore tree cover and an important contributor to forest recovery. PEBACC+ peoject will support the collection and propagation of seedlings at Barana Community Nature and Heritage Park and put in place a silvicultural programme.

PEBACC+ aims to strengthen the resilience of ecosystems, economies and people to the impacts of climate change. The Project will support the coastal protection of Ouvea (Loyalty Islands Province) the restoration of urban mangroves in Greater Noumea (South Province) and secure water provision in Kouaoua (North Province)

LE projet PEBACC+ (Pacific Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change Plus/Phase 2) est un projet régional mis en ouvre par le Secrétariat du Programme régional océanuen pour l'environnement (PROE) et financé par l'initiative Kiwa a travers l'Agebce francaise de développement (AFD) et la Facilité francaise pour l'environnement mondial.

This toolkit aims to provide teachers across the Pacific with resources and activities that will allow them to increase awareness of the issues surrounding waste generation and disposal, as well as enabling students to plan and implement strategies appropriate to their schools, homes, and communities to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill

This video outlines the support provided by the Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC), hosted at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, to the Government of the Solomon Islands with regard to the greening of the games, including carbon offsetting activities.

The Pacific BioScapes Programme aims to strengthen the protection of key coastal ecosystems that support climate resilience, livelihoods and the human wellbeing of over 30,000 people in the Central Islands Province of the Solomon Islands

Dans le cadre du projet PROTEGE une enquête a été réalisée à Maré par l’Agence néo-Calédonienne de la Biodiversité (ANCB) auprès des chasseurs de chèvres ensauvagées. Les objectifs sont d’évaluer les pratiques et l’effort de chasse, le niveau de prélèvements, la capacité et la volonté de diversifier les techniques de chasse et à augmenter l’effort de chasse, au regard des dégâts constatés. Les chèvres ensauvagées (ou férales, Capra hircus) contribuent à la raréfaction de nombreuses espèces végétales natives et à la dispersion et au développement de plusieurs plantes introduites envahissantes. Aux Îles Loyauté des troupeaux de chèvres sont présents sur une grande partie des corniches littorales de Lifou et de Maré, où la chasse de la chèvre ensauvagée répond principalement à un besoin pour les dons et coutumes, et pour l’autoconsommation. Une pré-enquête a été réalisée par l’animateur PROTEGE (également agent de l’ANCB), afin de recenser les chasseurs de chèvres férales sur Maré et de prendre leurs contacts pour la réalisation de l’enquête. Dans un deuxième temps, l’ensemble des chasseurs de chèvres ensauvagées identifiés ont été contactés afin de répondre à l’enquête.

Environmental advocates from the Solomon Islands are concerned wildlife trade is destroying the country's unique ecosystem. It follows a New York man being accused of smuggling US$200,000 worth of dead insects into the United States, including rare butterflies from the Solomon Islands. Charles Limmer, 75, was charged with trafficking the rare bugs.

The marine turtle states review for Solomon Islands 2022 was commissioned to inform the development of the country's 5-year National plan of Action (NPOA) - Marine Turtles 2022-2026. It provides an assessment of the literature on marine turtle conservation in Solomon Islands, collated quantitative information on nesting beaches and foraging grounds, and reviews current and future threats and legislation on turtles and enforcement of these legal instruments, The study was conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) supported by SPREP, through the by-catch and Integrated Ecosystem Management (BIEM) initiative of the Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) Programme funded by the European Union and the Government of Sweden.

1. Sea turtles are harvested in many small-scale fisheries (SSFs), but few nations have quantified the impacts that SSFs are having on their sea turtle stocks. This study provides the first assessment on the catch composition, national harvest rates,and long-term trends in sea turtle catches in the Solomon Islands SSFs. 2. Between October 2016 and May 2018, 10 community monitors located in eight of the nine provinces of the Solomon Islands were trained and employed to work alongside fishers in their respective communities to document, photograph, and geo-reference the reefs where sea turtles were harvested. Local ecological knowledge (LEK) surveys were then conducted with 32 experienced fishers to infer whether the harvest rates of sea turtles had changed in recent decades. 3. Community monitors recorded information on 1,132 sea turtles that were harvested on 529 fishing trips:1,119 sea turtles were identified to species level, with harvests consisting of 73.3% (n=818) green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas), 25.7% hawksbill sea turtles (n=291) (Eretmochelys imbricata), and 0.9% (n=10) olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea). 4. The great majority (92.6%) of sea turtles were captured by night-time and daytime freedivers who use masks, snorkels, fins, hooks, spears, and underwater flashlights to target a wide range of fauna that inhabit coral reefs.