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‘Lost’ bird rediscovered in New Caledonia along with 16 potentially new species (photos)

First study of little-known mammal reveals climate change threat

President’s pledge to ban commercial fishing around Pacific island nation slow to materialize

Solomon Islands’ banks shut down logging company accounts

Logging endangers UNESCO World Heritage Site in Solomon Islands

Pacific islanders are the ‘victims of industrial countries unable to control their carbon dioxide emissions’

Industrialized fishing has forced seabirds to change what they eat

Saviors or villains: controversy erupts as New Zealand plans to drop poison over Critically Endangered frog habitat

Humans killed over 10 percent of the world’s bird species when they colonized the Pacific Islands

The Role of Science for Conservation – book review

U.S. Admiral: climate change, not North Korea, biggest threat in the Pacific

Extinction warning: racing to save the little dodo from its cousin’s fate

Tokelau, 1st county with 100% renewable energy, leads call for climate action

Arachnopocalypse: with birds away, the spiders play in Guam

Solomon Islands’ export of ‘captive-bred’ birds deemed to be a farce

Lonesome George passes, taking unique subspecies with him

Why bird droppings matter to manta rays: discovering unknown ecological connections

New book series hopes to inspire research in world’s ‘hottest biodiversity hotspot’

Sober up: world running out of time to keep planet from over-heating

Marshall Islands creates world’s biggest shark park

Activists worldwide push for leaving the fossil fuel age behind

New seabird discovered from Hawaii, but no one knows where it lives

New species is eel-equivalent of the coelacanth

Environmental law landmark: island nation challenges faraway coal plant for climate impact

Left alive and wild, a single shark worth $1.9 million

Scientists urge Papua New Guinea to declare moratorium on massive forest clearing

Fiji eyes investment from Malaysian palm oil industry

Expedition granted?: hoping to save nearly-extinct seals through National Geographic contest

5 million hectares of Papua New Guinea forests handed to foreign corporations

New Caledonia’s forests are second most threatened in the world, not New Zealand’s

Forgotten species: the plummeting cycad

Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs

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