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JPRISM II Solid Waste Management Country Profile - Palau

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This document provides an overview of the current state of waste management in Palau. Key data from this document includes: "Waste generated in Palau (tons/day)","Waste Composition of Household Wastes in Koror (Weight %)", "Composting", "Volume of waste managed by waste management services in Palau (tons/day)", "Waste collection ", "waste disposal & waste recycling", "container deposit scheme (CDS)", "Number of containers and redemption rate under CDS", "Glass Bottle Recycling", "waste management laws & regulations", and "recommendations for the improvement of Solid Waste Management in Palau. All data was compiled by JICA/JPRISM experts with the help of colleagues from Palau.

JPRISM II Solid Waste Management Country Profile - Federated States of Micronesia

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This document provides an overview of the current state of waste management in the Federated States of Micronesia. Key data from this document includes: "Volume of waste managed by waste management services in the FSM (tons/day)","Composition of Household Waste (weight base)", "Solid Waste Management Strategies", "volume of waste managed by waste management services", "Waste collection ", "waste disposal & waste recycling", "container deposit scheme recycling", "waste management laws & regulations", and "recommendations for the improvement of Solid Waste Management in the Federated States of Micronesia. All data was compiled by JICA/JPRISM experts with the help of colleagues from Federated States of Micronesia.

JPRISM II Solid Waste Management Country Profile - Republic of the Marshall Islands

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This document provides an overview of the current state of waste management in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Key data from this document includes: "waste generation per day", "waste composition at landfill", "volume of waste managed by waste management services", "Waste collection ", "waste disposal & waste recycling", "container deposit scheme recycling", "waste management policies & Acts", and "recommendations for the improvement of Solid Waste Management in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. All data was compiled by JICA/JPRISM experts with the help of colleagues from Republic of the Marshall Islands.

JPRISM II Solid Waste Management Country Profile - Vanuatu

SPREP Publications, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This document provides an overview of the current state of waste management in Vanuatu. Key data compiled in this document includes: "Waste Management Policies & Regulations", "Waste Generated and Composition", "Waste Collection", "Waste Final Disposal", "Waste Recycling", "Prepaid bag prices", "Container Deposit Scheme" and recommendations to improve solid waste management in Vanuatu.

JPRISM II Highlights-Republic of the Marshall Islands

Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This document presents the highlights of the JPRISM II activities conducted in the Republic of the Marshall Islands during the project period (2017-2022) including the national and regional outputs of the project.

JPRISM II Highlights-Vanuatu

Waste Management and Pollution Control

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This document present the highlights of the JPRISM II activities conducted in Vanuatu during the project period (2017-2022) including the national and regional outputs of the project.

On the verge of a biological crisis: the state of invasive species in the Pacific

Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB

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Cas Vanderwoude

A report prepared by the Invasive Partnership for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, Palau July 2014 as requested by the Micronesian Chief Executives in Resolution 19-01

Predation pressures on sooty terns by cats, rats and common mynas on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic

Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB

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Dickey, R.C.

Hughes, B.J.

Reynolds, S.J.

Despite the presence of invasive black rats (Rattus rattus), common mynas (Acridotheres tristis), and feral domestic cats (Felis catus), sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus) breed in large numbers on Ascension Island in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean. These introduced predators impact the terns by destroying eggs or interrupting incubation (mynas), eating eggs (mynas and rats), eating chicks (rats and cats), or eating adults (cats). Between 1990 and 2015, 26 censuses of sooty terns and five of mynas were completed and myna predation was monitored on 10 occasions. Rat relative abundance indices were determined through trapping around the tern colonies and rat predation was monitored by counting chick carcasses. Cat predation was quantified by recording freshly killed terns. Prior to their eradication in 2003, cats had the greatest impact on sooty terns and were depredating 5,800 adults and 3,600 near-fledging chicks (equivalent to the loss of 71,000 eggs) each breeding season. We estimated that 26,000 sooty tern eggs (13% of all those laid) were depredated by approximately 1,000 mynas. Rats were not known to depredate sooty terns prior to cat eradication but in 2005, 131 of 596 ringed (monitored) chicks (22%) were depredated by rats. In 2009 chick carcass density was 0.16 per m2. Predation by rats hugely increased in the absence of cats and was the equivalent of 69,000 eggs. Care is needed when applying our findings to seabirds globally. The scarcity of alternative food sources and seasonally high density of easily available prey in the sooty tern colony may have magnified predation by cats, rats and mynas.

Wetlands of Wallis and Futuna.

Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.

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).

Scaling down (cliffs) to meet the challenge: the Shiants black rat eradication

Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB

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Bambini, L.

Bell, E.

Campbell, G.

Churchyard, T.

Douse, A.

Floyd, K.

Ibbotson, J.

Main, C.E.

Nicolson, T.

Reid, R.

Taylor, P.R.

Tayton, J.

Varnham, K.

Whittington, W.

A successful ground-based eradication of black rats (Rattus rattus) was undertaken on the remote, uninhabited Shiant Isles of north-west Scotland over winter (14 October28 March) 201516. The rat eradication was carried out as part of the Shiants Seabird Recovery Project, which aims to secure long-term breeding habitat for protected seabirds and to attract European storm petrels and Manx shearwaters to nest on the Shiants. Throughout the eradication operation, teams were stationed on two of the three main Shiant islands (Eilean an Tighe, Eilean Mhuire), with access to the third (Garbh Eilean) via a boulder causeway from Eilean an Tighe. Bait (Contrac® blocks containing the anticoagulant bromadiolone 0.005% w/w), was deployed in a grid of 1,183 bait stations covering all areas of the islands and sea stacks. Bait stations were set 50 m apart, with intervals reduced to 25 m in coastal areas of predicted high rat density. Difficult areas were accessed by boat and cliff s of ~120 m in height were accessed by abseiling down ropes made safe using either bolted anchors or ground stakes. The team of staff and volunteers worked through difficult conditions, deploying bait and monitoring intensively for any surviving rats using a combination of tools. The islands were declared rat free in March 2018. This ambitious and challenging project has greatly enhanced UK capacity in rodent eradications for the purposes of conservation.

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