User guide explaining the three license types available for data uploaded to the Environment Data Portals.
Summary table providing an overview of the three license types available for data uploaded to the Environment Data Portals
This guide assists PICs to build on existing laws and institutions to protect their environments, economies and societies from plastic pollution, improve waste management and recovery, and find alternative and practical solutions to avoidable plastic use.
The action plan sets out the policy context and key actions to minimize marine litter across the Pacific islands countries and territories.
A booklet that presents the Actions aim to support the management of coral reefs and associated ecosystems.
The global seafloor geomorphic features map has been created through collaboration between Geoscience Australia, GRID-Arendal and Conservation International.
A presentation on what's in and what's not; using the new global seafloor geomorphic map to examine the representatives of global marine protected areas
documentation pertaining to the sources in which each info on the database were harvested from.
An overview of the purpose and how Aqua Maps work.
Refer to dataset description for information. Please use this version for double-sided printing.
Please refer to dataset description for further information.
Strandings of Oceania Database Protocols for data users
The NIISP provides an investment plan based on the current condition and capacity of existing infrastructure assets, the need for services in Nauru
The Pacific Islands Framework for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas 2021 – 2025 was made possible through the support of the members and partners of the Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and support for publishing from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEA) Phase 3 Programme (ACP MEAs 3).
A traditional sport called Ibbon Itsi is an annual competition that last about a week, where men try and catch as many frigate birds as possible. Tame frigate birds are used to lure other frigate birds.
Publication contains a fisheries-oriented discussion of macroeconomics, country information on specific topics (fisheries production, contribution to GDP, etc), a discussion of important topics across all countries, some important features of the benefits from fisheries that have emerged from this study, and recommendations on improving the measurement of fisheries benefits and assuring the continuity of those benefits.
The economic contribution of fisheries to the economies of Pacific Island nations.
Survey of echinoderm diversity in Nauru. 18 species of echinoderms, most of them new records for the island. A total of 24 species of echinoderms are now known from Nauru. Six holothuroids (sea cucumbers), five echinoids (sea urchins), five asteroids (sea stars), five ophiuroids (brittle stars) and three crinoids (feather stars)
Coral reefs in the Southwest Pacific are generally in good condition. There was extensive
coral bleaching during 2000-2002. Since then coral reefs have shown highly variable recovery
with some reefs recovering fully to pre-bleaching levels of live coral cover, whereas others
have shown virtually no recovery. Nauru experienced coral bleaching and mass fish kills in
October-December 2003, possibly due to unusually high sea surface temperatures. The greatest
threats to coral reefs of the region continue to be human activities and cyclones, with reefs