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The Coastal Environment of the South Pacific: The living Edge.

Biodiversity Conservation, Anamua: Treasures of the Pacific Environment

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Video about the coastal ecosystem impacts and protection in pacific

Mapping and Monitoring Coral Reefs for Improved Resilience, Pacific BioScapes Programme - Regional Activity

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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The Pacific BioScapes Programme is providing support to implement the Pacific Coral Reef Action Plan 2021-2030. Developed with SPREP’s members and adopted in September 2021 at the 30th SPREP meeting, the plan enables leaders of Pacific Island countries, coral-reef managers and community members to coordinate their efforts and access resources to protect these valuable ecosystems.

Protecting Connectivity Promotes Successful Biodiversity and Fisheries Conservation

Biodiversity Conservation

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Fontoura, Luisa

The global decline of coral reefs had led to calls for strategies that reconcile biodiversity conservation and fisheries benefits. Still considerable gaps in our understanding of the spatial ecology of ecosystem services remain. We combined spatial information on larval dispersal networks and estimated of human pressure to test the importance of connectivity for ecosystem service provision. We found that reefs receiving larvae from highly connected dispersal corridors were associated with high fish species richness. Generally larval sinks contained twice as much as fish biomass as sources and exhibited greater resilience human pressure when protected. Despite their potential to support biodiversity persistence and sustainable fisheries up to 70% of important dispersal corridors, sinks and source reefs remain unprotected, emphasizing the need to increase protection of networks of well-connected reefs.

Rarotonga fore reef community survey for 2009

Biodiversity Conservation

Rongo Charles, Teariki

Rongo, Jackalyn

Rongo, Teina

Previous reef surveys on Rarotonga have shown that the crown-of-thorns outbreak in the late 1990s degraded the fore reefs to its current state departure of corals. The 2006 survey indicated that average coral cover at most sites were less than 5%, however it was noted that recovery was occurring. This is consistent with the present survey, which indicated that most sites have doubled their average percent coral cover after three years with some sites showing a greater than three-fold increas.

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