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Integrated catchment management - a strategy for achieving the sustainable and balanced use of land, water and related biological resources

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Regional Strategy to Address Marine Pollution from WWII Shipwrecks in the Pacific

Island and Ocean Ecosystems, Waste Management and Pollution Control

SPREP

Regional Strategy to Address Marine Pollution from WWII Shipwrecks in the Pacific

Vanua-Tai of land and sea

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

This video documentary charts the history of the Vanua=Tai Resource Monitors of Vanuatu. In 1995, the Pacific Year of Sea Turtles, Wan Smolbag set up a turtle monitors programme to create a dialogue between villages in north Efate and the theatre and thereby raise awareness fo turtle conservation issues. The spirit of Vanuat-Tai is captured in a video that contain beautiful footage of Pacific lifE and an engaing story that is both amusing and, at times, very moving. It raises important questions about the role of conservation in its interaction with traditional life, as well as presenting a model for village-based conservation programmes

The canoe is the people : indigenous navigation in the Pacific

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Thousands of years ago, when most sailors were still hugging the coast, the island peoples of the Pacific held the knowledge and skills to explore the great ocean paths around and beyond their homes. They navigated their canoes with their own sophisticated techniques, using the seas, skies, and sea life to guide them. Their knowledge was built up through generations of experience and handed down through careful teaching, stories,and songs. Using modern technology to its best advantage, The canoe is the people honours and explores the knoweldge and skills of traditional Pacific navigation. It is designed primarily for Pacific youth but will be of great interest to others as well.

Saving paradise: ensuring sustainable development

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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World Meteorological Organisation

As an outcome of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the 1994 Barbados Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States not only recognized common environmental challenges facing SIDS, but also highlighted the meteorological, hydrological and oceanographic issues in many of these countries. The Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA), the principal output of the Conference, identified 14 issues and/or focal areas as urgent priorities. All these areas require inputs of varying degree from the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) of SIDS and the global network of the NMHSs under the aegis of WMO.

Possible actions to address climate change and protected area concerns

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Chape, Stuart

The evolution and expansion of the human species over the past few hundred thousand years, an infinitesimal fraction of planetary time, now sees us as the dominant life form on Earth. We are dominant because of our intelligence and adaptability, and our need to constantly strive for newer and better ways of doing things. But there are now six billion of us, predicted to increase to 8-10 billion by 2050, and our domination of the planet is paralleled by the massive impact that we have had on the Earth's ecosystems. A recent mapping of the human footprint on the planet has concluded that more than 80% of the Earth's land surface is directly influenced by humans. We consume 40% of the Earth's net primary productivity, 35% of oceanic shelf productivity and 60% of freshwater runoff. As a result, remaining natural landscapes are rapidly being modified and the Earth's biological diversity continues to decline at an alarming rate. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) has found that in the last several decades 20% of the worlds coral reefs were lost and 20% degraded, while 35% of mangrove area has been lost. The MEA also concluded that humans have likely increased the species extinction rate by as much as 1,000 times over background rates typical throughout Earth's history.

Going into the Mangroves: Mangrove field study booklet / Upper primary level

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

To provide opportunities for primary school students to develop an understanding and appreciation of the importance and usefulness of mangrove systems through an organised field study to a mangrove area.To appreciate the value of healthy mangroves as sources of food, medicine and other traditional products as well as places of cultural significance.

Marine mammals and marine turtles of the Pacific Islands Region : a concise and comprehensive waterproof guide

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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International Fund for Animal Welfare

Marine mammals and marine turtles of the Pacific Islands Region : a concise and comprehensive waterproof guide

Trust funds in the Pacific : their role and future

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Graham, B.

Draft pacific regional position paper for the second world conference on disaster reduction - big ocean, small islands

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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