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Using Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) to Implement Marine Spatial Planning
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Dunstan, Piers K., Bax, Nicholas J., Dambacher, Jeffrey M., Hayes, Keith R., Hedge, Paul T., Smith, David C., Smith, Anthony D.M.

2016
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed in 2008 on the need to identify Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) in the world's oceans to focus future conservation and management efforts.
Marine Spatial Planning : First Phase National Consultations report
Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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2022
A national-level Marine Spatial Plan (MSP) is one of the 13 key strategies in the Samoa Ocean Strategy (SOS) 2020-2030. The SOS aims to use the MSP process to support ecosystem-based adaptation while strengthening community engagement in actions that enhance resilience to the impacts of climate change. As part of the MSP process, national stakeholder consultations were conducted to solicit views and gather relevant information for developing a spatial Ocean Plan for Samoa.
PLP-ESS Module 5: Stakeholder Engement: Understanding Bank Policies, Identifying Stakeholders & Planning Engagements
Environmental Monitoring and Governance
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2022
Assess stakeholder interest and support for the project and enable stakeholders view to be taken into account in project design.
Stakeholder Mapping - Identifying Stakeholders Planning for engagement
Environmental Monitoring and Governance
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2022
The World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) makes important advances for the World Bank in areas such as transparency, accountability, non discrimination and public participation.
Environmental Management Planning - A Pacific Case Study
Environmental Monitoring and Governance
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2022
A plan that translates proposed mitigation measures into practice. Typically developed as a part of environmental assessment.
Session 1: Introduction to SPREP Roles in Environmental Protection & Sustainable Development.
SPREP Publications, Environmental Monitoring and Governance
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2022
This session explains the learning objectives and structure of the training workshop before explaining the role of SPREP in supporting environmental protection and sustainable development in the region. EIA is the primary instrument for planning, assessing, and managing development projects, to support sustainable and resilient development goals and green growth development.
Session 2: Overview of PUMA Act
SPREP Publications, Environmental Monitoring and Governance
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2022
This session aims to explain the current planning laws in Samoa that provides the legal mandate for PUMA DEC and STA to regulate tourism development activities. It is meant to draw attention and stimulate thinking among participants on where their respective roles and responsibilities fit into the fray, particularly in making sure that these laws are properly treated and applied across tourism developments in Samoa.
Session 3: PUMA Overview of Samoa's Development Consent process
SPREP Publications, Environmental Monitoring and Governance
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2022
This session introduces the development consent process in Samoa in detail and attempts to explain its use of the EIA and ESS procedure and tools.
Towards a guidance document for invasive species planning and management on islands
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Tye, A.

2019
In 2012 a process was initiated to produce a guidance document for invasive species management on islands, as an objective of a regional invasive species project in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) islands, implemented by IUCN. The consultative process for producing the document began with requests and discussions via regional and global island and invasives email distribution lists. Initial responses revealed a consensus on the need for a guidance document for programmatic planning. A draft was therefore constructed around existing Pacific regional guidelines and a draft manual that had initially been written for the WIO, with new supplementary sections suggested by respondents. The new draft was discussed and revised in workshops at two international conferences. The document is now organised into three main sections: the first on how to use it, the second a checklist of the essential components of a comprehensive island invasives programme (to ensure nothing is overlooked when planning), and the third providing detailed guidance on the planning and decision-making processes. The document is intended to provide a comprehensive framework and procedural guide for invasive species planning on islands. Further consultations took place by email, and a later draft was tested by a number of users writing various kinds of invasive species strategy and action plan. Publication will be in English, French (both published 2018) and Spanish (scheduled for 2019).
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.

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