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Pacific Islands Regional Marine Species Programme 2008-2012

SPREP Publications, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

The Pacific Islands region that is served by SPREP covers 32 million km2 and is in the middle of the largest continuous marine habitat on the planet, the Pacific Ocean. This region is home to a diverse range of large marine animals, including cetaceans, sirenians and marine turtles. Over half of the world’s known species of cetaceans are found in the region. The area also supports the world’s largest remaining populations of dugongs, and green, hawksbill and loggerhead turtles.

What can be done to restore Pacific turtle populations? The Bellagio blueprint for Action on Pacific Sea turtles

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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The Pacific Ocean is the habitat of 5 species of widely distributed sea turtles and one restricted to Australian waters that evolved nearly 30 millions of years ago. All species are long-lived and clow growing, they take form 10 to 30 years to reach maturity and exhibit complex life cycles involving eggs laid in nests on tropical beaches natal homing and extraordinary feeding and breeding migrations that can span the entire Pacific Ocean. Sea turtle populations are slow to increase and replace themselves.

Whales and dolphins : identification guide

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Environment Australia

Whales in the South Pacific

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Department of Conservation

Whale-watching as an industry in the Pacific is growing much faster than whale numbers are recovering and is proving to be by far the most lucrative use of whales, with the added attraction of doing them no harm, provided that the operations are well managed.

Current state of knowledge of Cetacean Threats, Diversity and Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region / by Cara Miller

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Miller, Cara

This report provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of cetacean diversity, habitat and threats in the Pacifi c Islands Region. The boundaries of the Pacifi c Islands Region (Chapter 1), as defi ned by the Convention of Migratory Species (CMS) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Conservation of Cetaceans and their Habitats in the Pacifi c Islands Region (CMS 2006), are the marine areas under the jurisdiction of each Country or Territory of the Pacifi c Islands Region, and extend to the area defi ned by the Noumea Convention, i.e., between the Tropic of Cancer and 60° South latitude, and between 130° East longitude and 120° West longitude. The region stretches over some 10,000 kilometres from east to west and 5,000 kilometres from north to south, with a combined economic exclusion zone (EEZ) of approximately 30 million km². This region contains 22 Pacifi c Island Countries and Territories, as well as a portion of the Australian continent, both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, and a portion of the Hawaiian Islands. The region is purported to hold the most extensive and biologically diverse reefs in the world, the deepest ocean trenches, the worlds largest tuna fi shery, as well as a range of globally threatened species such as sea turtles, dugongs and cetaceans (UNDP 1999)

Setting priorities for marine conservation in the Fiji Islands Marine Ecoregion

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World Wildlife Fund

The Fiji Islands Marine Eco region which includes our coastal, Inshore and offshore marine environment is rich in marine biodiversity and endemism. A natural and vibrant ecological mosaic, it links coastal forests and mangroves; tidal estuaries, seagrass beds and lagoons; rich coral reefs and barrier islands. Amongst this rich mosaic can be found over a third of the worlds coral species, the 3rd longest barrier reef in the world, and a large number of species of mangroves and tropical sea grass species.However, the immense natural value of this region does not end with the counting of its many unique habitats. Living, migrating and multiplying within this rich natural environment are over a third of the coral reef fish species of the IndoPacifi c, many species of whales, and 5 of the seven species of marine turtles.There is no question that the natural wealth and diversity of this region makes it a unique place in the world – a place that should be protected and nurtured for many generations to come. Our marine environment sustains an incredible diversity of natural and our people. To sustain the integrity and health of those systems for our children’s future, and beyond them the many generations that will follow, a collective biodiversity vision is needed to be shaped for the Fiji Islands Marine Eco region.

Whales and Dolphins of Aotearoa New Zealand

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Todd, B.

Protected marine species andthetuna longline fishery i the pacific island/ Secretariat of the Pacific community. Coastal Fisheries Programme

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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King, Mike

The bycatch issue in the long line tuna fishery — the accidental catching on longlines of endangered and protected species, particularly turtles — is one that could eventually result in the loss of important markets for tuna from Pacific Island countries. The protection of threatened species and the Pacific Island longline fishery requires both awareness and cooperative action regarding bycatch.

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

Bismarck Solomon seas ecoregion : a cradle of marine biodiversity

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Afzal, Daniel et.al.

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