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Pacific Conversation Card Series : Lungs of Shores: Restoring Coastal Wetlands
SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience
Available Online
2022
These missing wetlands were part of our planet’s life support system, and big pressures are still facing the wetlands that remain. Mangroves, marshes, seagrasses, and coral reefs generate wealth for our communities and treasures for our cultural traditions.
Pigs Management in the French territories
Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB
Available Online
2020
Recovery and current status of seabirds on the Baja California Pacific Islands, Mexico, following restoration actions
Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB
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Aguilar-Vargas, A.

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Aguirre-Muñoz, A.

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Aztorga-Ornelas, A.

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Bedolla-Guzmán, Y.

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Bravo-Hernández, E.

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Corrales-Sauceda, M.

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Cárdenas-Tapia, A.

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Fabila-Blanco, A.

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Félix-Lizárraga, M.

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Hernández-Montoya, J.

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Hernández-Ríos, A.

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Latofski-Robles, M.

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Luna-Mendoza, L.

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Méndez-Sánchez, F.

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Ortiz-Alcaraz, A.

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Rojas-Mayoral, E.

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Solís-Carlos, F.

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Torres-García, F.

2019
The Baja California Pacifc Islands, Mexico, are globally important breeding sites for 22 seabird species and subspecies. In the past, several populations were extirpated or reduced due to invasive mammals, human disturbance, and contaminants. Over the past two decades, we have removed invasive predators and, for the last decade, we have been implementing a Seabird Restoration Programme on eight groups of islands: Coronado, Todos Santos, San Martín, San Jerónimo, San Benito, Natividad, San Roque, and Asunción. This programme includes monitoring; social attraction techniques; removal of invasive vegetation; reducing human disturbance; and an environmental learning and biosecurity programme. Here, we summarise historical extirpations and recolonisations during the last two decades of restoration actions, and we update the status of breeding species after more than a decade. To date, from 27 historically extirpated populations, 80% have returned since the ?rst eradication in 1995. Social attraction techniques were key in recolonisations of Cassin’s auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus), royal tern (Thalasseus maximus), and elegant tern (T. elegans). A total of 19 species breed on these islands, four more species than a decade ago, including 12 new records. The most abundant seabirds, black-vented shearwater (Puffnus opisthomelas), Cassin’s auklet, western gull (Larus occidentalis), and Brandt’s cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus), have shown a remarkable population increase. Current threats include the potential reintroduction of invasive mammals, guano mining, recreational activities, pollution, and commercial ?sheries. To maintain these conservation gains in the long-term it is necessary to continue implementing restoration actions and reinforcing protection on these important natural protected areas.
Vanuatu biodiversity strategy and action plan (NSAP) 2018 - 2030.
BRB
Available Online
2018
Vanuatu is located in the South Pacific Ocean (about three quarters of the way from Hawaii to Australia) and includes more than 80 islands, of which about 65 are inhabited.
Loss of interest intactness elevates global extinction risk in birds.
BRB
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Arendarczyk, B

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Buchanan, G M

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Donald, P F

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Spooner, F

2018
Only around a third of the world’s remaining forest cover survives in the form of Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL), and that proportion is declining.
Alien species as a driver of recent extinctions.
BRB
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Bellard, C.

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Blackburn, T.

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Cassey, P.

2015
We assessed the prevalence of alien species as a driver of recent extinctions in five major taxa (plants, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals), using data from the IUCN Red List. Our results show that alien species are the second most common threat associated with species that have gone completely extinct from these taxa since AD 1500. Aliens are the most common threat associated with extinctions in three of the five taxa analysed, and for vertebrate extinctions overall.
Regional assessment on ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and biodiversity in Oceania.
BRB
Available Online
2016
The Oceania region is very prone to natural disasters having experienced two Category 5 cyclones in as many years; Tropical Cyclone (TC)Pam struck Vanuatu on 13 March 2015 and TC Winston struck Fiji on 20 February 2016.
Wetlands of Wallis and Futuna.
Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.

2017
In 2014, with support from the French Government, Wallis and Futuna informed SPREP of its intention to identify nationally significant wetlands for future designation as wetlands of international importance (Ramsar Sites) under the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971).
Bait colour and moisture do not affect bait acceptance by introduced Pacific rats (Rattus exulans) at Henderson Island, Pitcairn Islands.
Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB
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Bond, A.L.

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McClelland, G.T.W.

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O’Keefe, S.

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Warren, P.

2019
Rodent eradications are a useful tool for the restoration of native biodiversity on islands, but occasionally these operations incur non-target mortality. Changes in cereal bait colour could potentially mitigate these impacts but must not compromise the eradication operation. Changing bait colour may reduce mortality of Henderson crakes (Zapornia atra), an endemic globally threatened flightless bird on Henderson Island, Pitcairn Islands, South Pacific Ocean. Crakes had high non-target mortality in a failed 2011 rat eradication operation and consumed fewer blue than green cereal pellets. We examined which cereal bait properties influenced its acceptance by captive Pacific rats (Rattus exulans) on Henderson Island. We held 82 Pacific rats from Henderson Island in captivity and provided them with non-toxic cereal bait pellets of varying properties (blue or green, moist or dry). We estimated the proportion of rats consuming bait using logistic generalised linear mixed models. We found no effect of sex, females’ reproductive status, bait colour or bait moisture on rats’ willingness to consume baits. Rats’ bait consumption was unaffected by cereal bait properties (colour or moisture). The use of blue bait is unlikely to affect future eradication operational success but may reduce non-target mortality of Henderson crakes. Timing cereal bait distribution in relation to precipitation may also reduce crake mortality without compromising palatability to rats.
Widespread shortfalls in protected area resourcing undermine efforts to conserve biodiversity.
BRB
Available Online
2019
Protected areas (PAs) are a key tool in efforts to safeguard biodiversity against increasing anthropogenic threats. As signatories to the 2011–2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, 196 nations pledged support for expansion in the extent of the global PA estate and the quality of PA management.

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