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COSPPac Pacific Weekly Access-S Update - Wednesday 23 April 2025
SPREP Publications, Climate Science and Information
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2025
Ocean Outlook, fortnight to 9 May: • Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts more than 0.8°C above normal are favoured in the following country EEZs: southern Palau, CNMI, southern Line Is. (Kiribati), southern PNG, western and southern Solomon Is., Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji and Rotuma, most of Tonga, Niue, southern Samoa, northern Cook Is., and Pitcairn Is. SST anomalies above 1.2°C are favoured in northern CNMI, southern PNG, southern New Caledonia. Elsewhere, SSTs are predicted to be nearnormal
Barbados SIDS Conference & Netherlands Climate Meeting: Actions Taken
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation, Anamua: Treasures of the Pacific Environment
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The Global conference of SIDS was held on the 25 April - 6 May in Barbados. A program of action was adopted which talked about ways to foster development in small island states while preserving their cultural and environmental diversity. Logging companies to log tress as many as possible. Concerns in abusing financial and environmental regulations that operates in the Solomon Islands. IPCC a international scientific body that provides scientific adivce on climate change.
PRISMSS Triannual Newsletter April 2025
SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB
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Pacific Regional Invasive Species Management Support Services (PRISMSS)

2025
Updates on the PRISMSS Invasive Species Management work can be found on this Triannual Newsletter
Surface ozone profiles at selected South Pacific sites
Climate Change Resilience
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Chandra, Anand

2015
Surface ozone profiles were studied at Fiji (18.1oS, 178.2oE), Samoa (14.3oS, 170.6oW), Tahiti (18.0oS, 149.0oW), and San Cristobal, Galapagos (0.9oS, 89.6oW) from 1997-2003. Surface ozone levels at these Pacific sites showed a wintertime maximum and a summertime minimum with the lowest mixing ratios occurring at Tahiti and Galapagos, while the highest mixing ratios occurred at Fiji. The seasonal trends at each site were found to be dependent on the varying photochemical sink strength and the changing transport regimes in each season. It was established that the reduced photochemical sink strength in winter was one of the major reasons for the observed increase in surface ozone levels at each site in that season. The presence of the South Pacific Convergence Zone particularly for the Western Pacific (Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti) is the other factor contributing to the observed seasonality and variability in surface ozone levels. The changing frequency of transport from the southern mid-latitude (from high altitudes) is the only transport regime at the boundary layer having the most significant influence on the surface ozone levels at these Pacific sites.
Environmental management in Fiji: A Socio-Political Exploration of global, regional and state dynamics.
Environmental Governance, Biodiversity Conservation
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Turnbull, Iére Jane

2001
The techniques of environment impact assessment, environment planning and protected areas are manifestations of the of western society with its growth of rationality, bureaucratisation and the centrality accorded to science. Environment impact assessment and planning techniques are also part of a growing international perspective on environmentalism that is moving towards common environmental standards and policies. The concept of formally protected areas is being subsumed into this globalist perspective, part of a scientifically-based discourse that argues loss of biodiversity is a global issue requiring a global solution.
Sharks and rays of the Samoan archipelago: a review of their biological diversity, social and cultural values, and conservation status
Biodiversity Conservation
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Nunis, Tori

2024
Both Samoa and American Samoa have relatively diverse shark and ray communities with management plans in place to protect chondrichthyans. These include participation in Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission initiatives, spatial protections, and community-based management programs. Implications. Current management approaches have the potential to provide significant protection to sharks and rays, however, their effectiveness may be hindered by a lack of proper enforcement, or compliance at the national and community levels.
Ethnobotany of Tokelau: The Plants, Their Tokelau Names, and Their Uses
Biodiversity Conservation, BRB
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Whistler, A.W.

2025
The following paper can by no means by considered to be the definitive word on all the ethnobotany of Tokelau. It is merely the first few steps--the recording and identifying of Tokelau plant names and describing the more salient uses of the plants. It is one of three completed studies in a program of ethnobotanical research (see Whistler 1984, for Samoa, and Whistler n.d., for the Cook Islands). It is hoped that these studies can lay a groundwork for ethnobotanists and anthropologists to continue with more detailed studies of plant uses before it is too late.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Became Law, That Was Agreed Upon Earth Summit
Environmental Governance, Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation, Anamua: Treasures of the Pacific Environment
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This is an audio recording published by Radio Australia (approx. 26 minutes) via the SPREP Library. It reports that the UNFCCC, negotiated at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit with over 150 signatory nations, became international law less than two years later. While its goal—to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations to prevent human‑driven climate disruption—has faced criticism for lacking adequate strength, it marked the first global treaty on climate under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities." The episode also features a group of 25 environmental advocates from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands sharing their experiences in Japan, highlighting the environmental toll of unsustainable logging and efforts to raise awareness among consumers and officials
The Greenhouse Effect – Dr. Patrick Nunn (Geography Dept, University of the South Pacific)
Climate Change Resilience, Anamua: Treasures of the Pacific Environment
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Ofatolau, Alison

This is an educational audio presentation by Dr. Patrick Nunn of the University of the South Pacific’s Geography Department. In it, he explains the fundamentals of the greenhouse effect—how greenhouse gases like CO₂ trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere—and outlines its critical role in moderating global temperatures. Dr. Nunn connects this science to the Pacific context, discussing the region’s vulnerability to rising temperatures, sea-level rise, and changing weather patterns. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the greenhouse effect for local climate adaptation strategies and policy planning across Pacific Island nations, drawing on research and climate modeling relevant to the South Pacific.
Logging Native Forests "One of the Most Controversial Issues Facing Pacific Environmentalists"
Environmental Governance, Biodiversity Conservation, Anamua: Treasures of the Pacific Environment
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One Radio Australia's interview with a local Fijian from Kadavu island, Korokoro village. The Pacific already experienced the lash of the chain saw, sandalwood have all but disappeared with excessive selling during the last century. On Kadavu island, in Fiji, the Kadavu timber company leased land from Korokoro village for 17 year, the company cleared cut the land. In 1974 the Government stepped in and stop the destruction....

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