February 3rd 2012
Accolade for climate modeling firm
A software firm that has helped build climate change models and future scenarios in Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Nauru and the Marshall Islands besides many other atolls and low lying countries around the world has been recognised as a leading innovator of climate change risk and adaptation assessment tools and associated services.
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Febuary 3rd 2012
New programme to conserve coastal marine stocks
Scientists and managers from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network have come together to develop a series of information sheets recommending measures to protect sea cucumbers, lobsters and other fish species that are in danger of disappearing from Pacific Island fisheries.
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Febuary 2nd 2012
Asian Development Bank and Japan help ready Tonga to tap into solar power
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan today signed a letter agreement to fund the preparation of the Outer Island Renewable Energy Project, which will connect solar power to the country’s existing electricity network.
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February 1st 2012
US$4 million for Nauru solar energy and desalination plant
Nauru will access US$4million from the Pacific Environment Community (PEC) Fund to install a solar power generation system and sea water desalination plant.
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Febuary 1st 2012
SPREP Launches Clean Pacific 2012 Campaign
The Clean Pacific 2012 campaign will be launched in partnership with the World Wetlands Day celebrations in Apia, Samoa on 2 February. The relationship between proper waste disposal practices, management and pollution prevention and healthy wetlands is a critical one.
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Febuary 1st 2012
American Samoa addresses E-Waste issue
The American Samoa government is working towards the safe disposal of electronic trash, or e-waste. The territory doesn’t have a program in place to deal with electronic waste and many old and broken electronics are left on the side of the road or not properly disposed.
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January 23rd 2012
Smart pest management boosts cabbage output
An integrated pest management technique incorporated into farming practices in cabbage farms in Fiji’s Sigatoka Valley has seen farmers’ profits rise between 20 and 30 per cent.
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January 19th 2012
Wild kai survey highlights risks of legacy contaminants
Wild kai such as eel (tuna), lamprey (kanakana) and whitebait are a significant cultural, recreational and economic resource for Māori in South Canterbury. But eating some of these species can pose a risk when they are contaminated by legacy contaminants such as DDT, PCBs and dieldrin, which remain in the environment for a long time and accumulate in the food chain.
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January 12th 2012
The Last Sandalwood
It looks like any ordinary piece of driftwood. It sits at the corner of the truck bed as I unpack from my trip to Savaii this afternoon. I do not want to take it into the house as there are Samoan taboos about bringing home objects from other villages, forests. By most accounts we gathered though – this is what remains of the last Samoan asi manogi, native Samoan sandalwood tree, chopped down back in 1989.
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January 12th 2012
Overfishing of western Pacific bigeye tuna continues
Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia, 11 January 2011 – Overfishing of bigeye tuna continues in the western and central Pacific tuna fishery, the world’s biggest tuna fishery, according to the 2010 tuna fishery assessment report released this month by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC).
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December 19th 2011
Pacific youth must rise up against climate change
Simon Matāfai is the first Pacific Youth Delegate from New Zealand to attend a United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties. He has been in Durban, South Africa with the New Zealand Youth Delegation.
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December 6th 2011
Traditional lifestyle offers cues to sustainable living
In the backdrop of global climate change talks in Durban, a Papua New Guinea action group says traditional island lifestyles offer plenty of cues for living sustainably.
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November 1st 2011
ISSUE 47
Responding To The Tokelau Drought
A severe La Nina weather pattern in the Pa cific has resulted in very low rainfall for parts of the region. Tuvalu and Tokelau in particular have been experiencing drought conditions and have been forced to request international assistance to help deal with water shortages.
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September 8th 2011
ISSUE 46 EXCLUSIVE
Renewable Energy In The Pacific
New Zealand’s support for sustainable energy generation across the Pacific is on show at the Pacific Showcase at The Cloud on Auckland’s waterfront from 6-8 September.
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