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Banner image of the Bougainville forest planted by Carteret Islanders, by Thibault Le Pivain for Mongabay.

PNG climate migrants sail away with native trees to their new home

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2024
A canoe of Indigenous design in Colombia. Image by J.J. Javier via Nia Tero.

Indigenous territories & peoples are key to achieving COP16’s 30×30 target (commentary)

Hon. Trevor Mahaga & Ricardo Camilo Niño Izquierdo 18 Oct 2024

Pacific Island nations propose ecocide be adopted as international crime

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Sep 2024
A yellow oriental paper wasp (Polistes olivaceus)

Bats & bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Sep 2024
Clown fish in anemone

The ocean ‘belongs to all of us’: Interview with Palau President Whipps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Sep 2024
A school of barracuda in Papua New Guinea.

Not merely ‘exploration’: PNG deep-sea mining riles critics & surprises officials

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Sep 2024
Musicians at a 2019 ceremony marking a three-month rāhui closure of the bonefish fishery in Anaa Atoll.

French Polynesians revive traditional rāhui to protect fish — and livelihoods

Amélie David 4 Jul 2024
Coral reefs seen along the coast in an aerial photo.

New approach to restore coral reefs on mass scale kicks off in Hawai‘i

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024
Alson Kelen on a U.S. airstrip runway. Image by Mark Klett/Cape Farewell.

Marshallese worries span decades — first nuclear tests, now sea-level rise

Amélie David 29 May 2024
A shark in French Polynesia.

18 years on, how are sharks faring in French Polynesia’s shark sanctuary?

Amélie David 24 May 2024
Jonathan Mesulam

PNG communities resist seabed mining: Interview with activist Jonathan Mesulam

John Cannon 1 Mar 2024
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 tenkile (Dendrolagus scottae)

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
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
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
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

Logging threats loom over tree kangaroo refuge in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 25 Jan 2023
Jayna DeVore and Simon Ducatez approaching Hiraanae motu.

Rat killers in paradise: An eradication program remakes a tropical atoll

David Helvarg 10 Nov 2022

A flying robot swoops in via Quebec to save endangered plants in Hawai‘i

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Nov 2022
A sea snake.

Small island, big ocean: Niue makes its entire EEZ a marine park

Monica Evans 3 Nov 2022
A New Zealand deep sea trawler.

New Zealand convicts company of illegal trawling in high seas restricted area

Edward Carver 31 Oct 2022
Plastic pieces found inside a dead shearwater.

Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022
A healthy coral reef in Tahiti.

Scientists develop AI that can listen to the pulse of a reef being restored

Cassie Freund 25 Aug 2022

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