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PACRES newsletter - Volume 8, October 2023
SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience, PCCP
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2023
PACRES aims to enhance regional and national adaptation and mitigation solutions to address climate change challenges faced by 15 Pacific ACP countries
PACRES newsletter: Volume 7 April 2023
SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience, PCCP
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2023
A project which exists to improve regional national adaptation and mitigation solutions to climate change in 15 Pacific countries has provided critical assistance to the tiny island of Tuvalu to battle climate crisis.
PACRES newsletter: Volume 6 December 2022
SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience, PCCP
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2022
PACRES aims to improve regional, national adaptation and mitigation solutions to climate change concerns faces in 15 Pacific ACP countries.
PACRES newsletter: Volume 5 August 2022
SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience
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2022
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) through the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP) awarded a range of youth-led initiatives that build climate change resilience involving 11 groups across the region in March 2022 and supported by the government of Australia. The youth-led efforts and activities contributed to the effective implementation of the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific (FRDP) covering a wide range of sectors including preserving traditional agricultural practices and so forth....
PACRES newsletter: Volume 4 February 2022
SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience
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2022
The contribution of PACRES to Karama will enhance the already existing knowledge in the community in terms of mangrove rehabilitation and provide alternative options for water and food security and enable disaster preparedness for the community. PACRES will also fund additional Vulnerability Needs Assessments for a number of other coastal communities in Gulf Province in 2022-23
PACRES newsletter: Volume 3. July 2021
SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience
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2021
The 2021 Pacific Resilience Meeting (PRM) was held between 6 and 8 July 2021, with a pre-PRM youth forum on 5 July. The meeting was both virtual with national hubs with PACRES the main funding partner
PACRES newsletter: Volume 2. March 2021
SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience
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2021
PACRES continues to support scaling up the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in the Pacific by strengthening the delivery of the Resilience Qualification by the TVET institutions. One of the approaches employed is the provision of tools and equipment to institutions offering these qualifications. This includes computers, GPS and soil sampling kits by way of examples.
PACRES newsletter: Volume 1. August 2020
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2020
This newsletter looks st the risk governance Technical Working Groups (TWG) co chaired by Loti Yates, Director of Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office and Vasisti Soko, Director of Fiji National Disaster Management office.
Achieving large scale, long-term invasive American mink control in northern Scotland despite short term funding
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Horrill, J.

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Lambin, X.

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Raynor, R.

2019
The American mink (Neovison vison) has invaded most of the United Kingdom following escapes from furfarms over decades. Its escalating impact on riparian and coastal biodiversity, including seabirds and water voles, is well documented. Starting in north-east Scotland in 2004, long-term, multi-institution mink control efforts have harnessed the enthusiasm of volunteer conservationists to push back the mink invasion over a vast area. Rather than the outcome of a single project with secured long-term funding, this achievement resulted from four successive joined up projects each with short-term funding. The beginnings of the project (2004–2006), under the auspices of the north-east Scotland Biodiversity Partnership were small scale (30 km2) and centred upon a lowland remnant water vole meta-population. Mink control efforts were scaled-up to 6,000 km2 of mostly marginal mink habitat as part of the Cairngorms Water Vole Conservation Project (2006–2009) centred on the newly established Cairngorms National Park. The project, led by the University of Aberdeen, was funded by a charity, a UK Research council and Scottish Natural Heritage and involved the national park authority, and three local fisheries trusts. The approach was to deploy a “rolling carpet” of mink control based on the use of mink rafts operated by volunteers and that facilitated mink detection and removal. Substantial funding was then secured for a successor project, the Scottish Mink Initiative (2010–2014) involving, all previous partners plus 14 local fisheries trusts coordinated by the Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland. Mink were pushed back over a vast area (29,000 km2) and their spread in coastal areas of north-west Scotland was countered. After a period with minimal bridge funding, coordinated mink control efforts resumed, thanks to the newly funded Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (2017–2021) seeking to extend the approach used with mink to other riparian invasives. Mink remain scarce or absent and water voles are recovering spectacularly. Coordinated mink control delivered tangible conservation benefits and improved understanding of the socio-ecological system despite the challenges of short-term funding.
Scaling down (cliffs) to meet the challenge: the Shiants’ black rat eradication
Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB
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Bambini, L.

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Bell, E.

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Campbell, G.

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Churchyard, T.

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Douse, A.

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Floyd, K.

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Ibbotson, J.

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Main, C.E.

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Nicolson, T.

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Reid, R.

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Taylor, P.R.

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Tayton, J.

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Varnham, K.

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Whittington, W.

2019
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 October–28 March) 2015–16. 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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