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Annual South Pacific fisheries meeting nets bottom trawling controversy

Edward Carver 8 Feb 2024

Indonesia invites Turkish investors to develop tuna farms in Papua

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2024
An aerial view of the Palau archipelago.

Palau is the first nation to ratify treaty to protect high seas

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jan 2024

In PNG, researchers record 9 new species of predatory hermaphroditic land snails

Spoorthy Raman 24 Jan 2024
Women making skirts from grass in Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

‘Cowboys’ and intermediaries thrive in Wild West of the carbon market

John Cannon 9 Jan 2024
Wine bottles in a vineyard.

Some hemp with your wine? Study shows better soil, potentially flavors from intercropping

Sarah Derouin 19 Dec 2023
An Indigenous person in a boat.

Vast new MPAs are PNG’s first to be co-managed by Indigenous communities

Ian Morse 14 Dec 2023
The surf at Teahupo'o in French Polynesia is world renowned. Image via Paris 2024 Olympic Committee.

Reef damage from 2024 Olympics surfing venue is avoidable (commentary)

Georgina Seal 8 Dec 2023
The Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria) is the largest living pigeon species on the planet. Image by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea

Spoorthy Raman 30 Nov 2023

Collaboration key to rediscovery of egg-laying mammal in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains

Basten Gokkon 28 Nov 2023
Mangroves along Wallace's Passage

The Indo-West Pacific harbors two distinct mangrove hotspots, study says

Basten Gokkon 30 Oct 2023
A green turtle swimming in the waters of New Caledonia.

New Caledonia expands strictly protected coverage of its swath of the Pacific

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Oct 2023
A grizzled tree kangaroo at the TCA base in Lumi.

Defending a forest for tree kangaroos and people: Q&A with Fidelis Nick

John Cannon 4 Oct 2023
Jerry Lotawa.

‘The forest is so much more than money’: Q&A with Fijian carbon project ranger Jerry Lotawa

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023

Photos: Fiji’s first Indigenous-owned carbon credit project

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023

Pacific alliance adopts moratorium on deep-sea mining, halting resurgent PNG project

John Cannon 6 Sep 2023
A coral reef in southern Pacific.

Hope, but no free pass, as Pacific corals show tolerance to warming oceans

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Aug 2023
Kono village chief Chris Magalan speaks to his community members about the Solwara 1 project in New Ireland province.

Deep-sea mining project in PNG resurfaces despite community opposition

John Cannon 18 Aug 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron

Macron touts forest conservation while promoting gas project on PNG visit

Rachel Donald 10 Aug 2023
A fisher in Fiji.

Study finds locally managed marine areas in Fiji yield mixed results

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jun 2023

Science and culture join forces to restore 120 miles of Hawaiian reefs

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2023
A boat merchant in the canals of Bangkok, Thailand.

For urban poor in Global South, nature-based solutions have always been a way to get by

Spoorthy Raman 8 Jun 2023
The endangered pig-nosed turtle, also known as the Fly River turtle, lives in northern Australian and southern New Guinea, including in the area Medco is operating in. Image by Jin Kemoole/Flickr.

Report: Forest-razing biomass plant in Indonesia got millions in green funds

Philip Jacobson 2 Jun 2023
Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus). Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

It’s time to embrace community-led conservation vs. the colonial kind (commentary)

Audrey Moreng 15 May 2023
Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Image by Karsten Winegeart via Unsplash.

Hawaiian communities restore Indigenous conservation, from mountains to sea

Roxanne Hoorn 2 May 2023
image of the Porgera copper and gold mine

Gold miner faces global protests as it rekindles a mine with a violent legacy

Ian Morse 1 May 2023
Partula snail reintroductions organized by London Zoo

‘Extinct’ snails return to Tahiti in largest wildlife reintroduction ever

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Apr 2023
A wild giant otter with a discarded single-use plastic bottle.

U.N. parties are worlds apart on plastics treaty solutions

Charles Pekow 27 Apr 2023
Cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand, bringing devastating floods and powerful winds

After historic storm in New Zealand, Māori leaders call for disaster relief and rights

Joseph Lee 21 Apr 2023
A baby tree kangaroo on a community chief's wife's shoulder.

PNG youths’ loss of tradition is bad news for hunting — but also for conservation

Spoorthy Raman 14 Apr 2023
The vulnerable ʻiʻiwi (Drepanis coccinea).

From ukuleles to reforestation: Regrowing a tropical forest in Hawai‘i

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2023

Logging threats loom over tree kangaroo refuge in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 25 Jan 2023

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