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Sustainability achieved only when there is full reconciliation between (1) economic development (2) meeting, on and equitable basis growing and changing human needs and aspirations and (3) conserving the limited natural resources and the capacity of the environment to absorb the multiples stresses that are a consequence of human activities

While island societies can do little to control carbon emissions from developed nations, they can manage their local resources to enhance the ecosystem services that coastal habitats, including reefs provide for people.

Wildlife watching activities play a significant and growing part in the tourism industry, and create direct and indirect economic benefits for many countries and communities - especially amongst developing countries. This form of tourism can certainly make important contributions to conservation by raising awareness of the animals observed and their habitats, by creating revenues for conservation and by creating jobs for local communities.

Population centres in low atoll islands have water supply problems that are amongst the most critical in the world. Fresh groundwater, the major source of water in many atolls, is extremely vulnerable to natural processes and human activities

Sea turtles migrate vast distances across ocean basins, living complex life histories within pelagic, coastal and beach habitats of numerous Pacific nations.

Sea turtle tagging activities have been practiced in the Southeast Asian region since 1950's. Researchers in this region have been using various designs of tags made from Monel, titanium, plastic...

Think of a challenging conservation problem you have encounters - protecting a rare species, winning support for legislation, cleaning up a river, or sustainably managing a forest.

he Western Pacific Regional Fisheries management council 1 (WPRFmc) currently funds several leatherback turtle recovery projects in the Western Pacific, whereby participating communities are paid to monitor beaches as opposed to harvesting eggs or turtles.

Niue became a party to the 1985 Vienna Convention on the protection of the Ozone Layer, the 1987 Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer and all amendments to the Protocol...