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Regional Early Action Rainfall Watch - Monthly and seasonal Rainfall Watch: March - May 2022

SPREP Publications, Climate Science and Information

Available Online

Three month total rainfall is typically used for monitoring grasslands, shallow rooted plants and small water body (e.g. small water tanks, streams) moisture deficits. Allow for uncertainity associated with island size, topography, geology and soil type. Information provided gives an indication of predicted total rainfall over the next three months, not how intense the rain may be in anyone event, nor how it may vary from month to month.

Launch of the Pacific Battler Lounge 2020

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

The launch of the Pacific Battler Lounge on November 27, 2020 also announced the fourth Pacific Battler of the Year for 2020 during the 10th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas.

SPREP Webinar series | Rats, Reefs and Resilience (full session)

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Pacific Regional Invasive Species Management Support Service (PRISMSS)

The Battler Lounge webinar series talks about the link between rats, seabirds, ecosystems and reef resilience in the Pacific.

Launch of the Pacific Biodiversity Information Facility (PBIF) 2021

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

PBIF is a Pacific version of the GBIF that aims to increase data mobilization capacity in the Pacific. This opens up the opportunity to engage with the organization more broadly to institutionalize data mobilization processes and promote GBIF across the region.

Regional Invasive Species Mainstreaming Strategy (2021 -2024)

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

Available Online

Menzies, Steve

In this video, Steve Menzies of Flinch Marketing introduces the invasive species Mainstreaming Strategies and invited feedbacks from the audience through the use of Mentimeter.

Creature feature | Introduced Rats

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Richard Griffiths

This video dives into what rats are found in the Pacific, their characteristics, their historical distribution and their impacts.

Rats or reefs - Invasive species and climate change in the Pacific

SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Menzie, Steve

Pacific Regional Invasive Species Management Support Service (PRISMSS)

Highlight stories from around the region about the significant linkages between rats management, seabirds, ecosystems, and reef resilience. *

Ocean Connecting the Dots Plastic Pollution and the Planetary Emergency

Waste Management and Pollution Control

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The toxic pollution resulting form rampant overproduction of virgin plastics and their lifestyles is irreversible, directly undermines our health, drive biodiversity loss, exacerbates climate change and risks generating large-scale harmful environmental changes. With emissions into the ocean alone to triple by 2040 in line with production, it threatens human civilisation and the planet's basic ability to maintain a habitable environment.

Te Manu iti January 2022

Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Ornithological Society of Polynesia

The 'Ōmāma'o or Tahiti Monarch is one of the most threatened birds of the planet. At the start of the conservation program, in 1998, only 12 adults were known in the entire world. Present only in Tahiti, this bird has to face ten invasive species, all ranked among the 100 most invasive species on the planet, which includes Black rat, Indian Myna, Red-Vented Bulbul, etc. Later, the Little Fire Ant (LFA) was found on a surface of 70 ha near the entrance of the Tahiti Monarch habitat, located in three valleys (Hopa, Maruapo and Papehue).

Biological Invasion Costs Reveal Insufficient Proactive Management Worldwide

Biodiversity Conservation, BRB

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Andrew M. Kramer

Anna Turbelin

Christophe Diagne

Céline Albert

Danish A. Ahmed

Elizabeta Briski

Emma J. Hudgins

Franck Courchamp

Franz Essl

Melina Kourantidou

Natalia Kirichenko

Phillip J. Haubrock

Rodolphe E. Gozlan

Ross N. Cuthbert

Thomas W. Bodey

The global increase in biological invasions is placing growing pressure on the management of ecological and economic systems. However, the effectiveness of current management expenditure is difficult to assess due to a lack of standardised measurement across spatial, taxonomic and temporal scales. Furthermore, there is no quantification of the spending difference between pre-invasion (e.g. prevention) and post-invasion (e.g. control) stages, although preventative measures are considered to be the most cost-effective. Here, we use a comprehensive database of invasive alien species economic costs (InvaCost) to synthesise and model the global management costs of biological invasions, in order to provide a better understanding of the stage at which these expenditures occur.

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