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The environment of Nauru, a raised atoll located in the central Pacific Ocean (0° 32′ S, 166° 56′ W), was
devastated by mining of phosphate “rock” during the twentieth century. Some 100 million tonnes of
phosphate material has been removed, leaving more than 80% of the island as a dolomite
pinnacle–dominated karrenfeld. Based on fieldwork examining sites unmined at that time, laboratory
studies on undisturbed profiles, aerial photographs, and old mining maps, a picture of what the soil

Radio Interview:

Alex Feary is a NZ ecologist that undertook his Masters dissertation on field work in Nauru. The masters was for Victoria University, New Zealand. He particularly noted the abundance of invasive species and the need to manage them.

The restoration of Nauru’s mined areas is fundamental to the future wellbeing of the people and ecosystems of Nauru. Extensive open cast phosphate mining on Nauru over the last 100 years has led to soil losses and landscape degradation to the extent that over 70% of this South-Western Pacific island state is now uninhabitable and almost all productive land has been lost.

… (ZMB archives, Zool. Mus. Sign. S III, Kaiser, L., p. 1). However, information from this list was published in the …

Provide images and an insight into the life of Nauruans during the early period of contact with outsiders.

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Journal article: Journal of Geography (1951) vol. 50

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Report by the Nauru Historical Committee

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Article

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

An essay by Nancy Viviani

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

9 page report to the UNCCC

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Project Administration Manual (Report)

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Copy of a paper published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Powerpoint presentation (pdf) by Makereta Lomaloma of the Economic Development Division, SPC

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Nauru's Roadmap.  48 p publication.

Publication produced with support from the European Union and the German Government (GIZ).

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Publication by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Environment 2009

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Report undertaken by SPC, GIZ and IRENA

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Summary downloaded from IRENA

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Publication by IRENA (28 pages)

 Nauru Department of Commerce, Industry and Environment

Report by ISA still in draft. 25pages.