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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).
Maximising conservation impact by prioritising islands for biosecurity
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Bambini, L.

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Dawson, J.

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Havery, S.

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John, L.

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Oppel, S.

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Radford, E.

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Varnham, K.

2019
Invasive alien species are one of the primary threats to native biodiversity on islands worldwide, and their expansion continues due to global trade and travel. Preventing the arrival and establishment of highly successful invasive species through rigorous biosecurity is known to be more economic than the removal of these species once they have established. However, many islands around the world lack biosecurity regulations or practical measures and establishing biosecurity will require social and financial investments. Guiding these investments towards islands where native biodiversity is at highest risk from potential invasions is of strategic importance to maximise conservation benefit with limited resources. Here we implement an established prioritisation approach, previously used to identify which islands will have the greatest conservation gains from the eradication of invasive species, to identify which islands would benefit the most from establishing or improving biosecurity. We demonstrate this approach for 318 islands in the Caribbean UK Overseas Territories and Bermuda where we considered all threatened native terrestrial vertebrates that are vulnerable to the most harmful invasive vertebrates (black and brown rats, cats, small Indian mongoose, green iguana). The approach calculates the increase in conservation threat score resulting from anticipated negative effects of potential invaders on native biodiversity, and highlighted Sombrero (Anguilla) and Cayman Brac (Cayman Islands) as important islands where threatened reptile species would likely be eliminated if rats, feral cats or mongoose invaded. Feasibility and cost implications should now be investigated more closely on the highlighted islands. The prioritisation presented here can be expanded to more islands and more invasive/native taxa (herbivores, plants and invertebrates), but requires a classification of the severity of potential impacts between invasive and native species for which currently little information exists. Besides highlighting opportunities for biosecurity, this approach also highlights where knowledge gaps about population sizes of and threats to reptiles with restricted ranges exist.

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