Doco highlights calls for halt to deep sea mining
Last week's launch of a film documentary, Setting the Boundaries - Voices from the Last Frontier is part of a regional series focusing on...
Fiji Rugby announce Nike as official team and training kit supplier
Fiji Rugby will have heads turning on and off the field of play this year with the Pacific rugby powerhouse partnering with global sporting...
The illegal, the unreported and the unregulated, and their presence in the WCPO
By Francisco Blaha
If you were to speak about “IUU fishing” 10 or 15 years ago, only a few fish nerds would have known...
Expanding connection to science for the Pacific Fisheries people
Over one hundred participants from twenty-two Pacific island countries and territories met this week at the thirteenth SPC Heads of Fisheries meeting, focusing on...
UN health agency urges nations to donate 250 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Some two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed globally but only 0.5 per cent have reached low-income countries where frontline health workers...
UN launches Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to counter ‘triple environmental emergency’
Heads of Government, religious leaders, activists and artists joined the United Nations on Friday in a rallying cry to heal the planet, launching the...
Cook Islands detects first positive Covid-19 case
A Cook Islands man who has been on holiday in Rarotonga since 21 May, 2021 has tested positive for Covid-19, after requesting to be...
Fiji reports alarming 83 new positive cases; new cluster in Naitasiri Province
Fiji has recorded an alarmingly high 83 new cases on Sunday, its highest daily figure yet.
Ministry of Health and Medical Services permanent secretary Dr...
New Samoa Government should be delayed: Fonotoe
Samoa's Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) deputy leader Fonotoe Pierre Lauofo says no Government should be formed in Parliament until election-related legal issues have...
FFA study on marine pollution to boost compliance with fishing rules
The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) is stepping up efforts to stop the dumping of plastic waste at sea in the western and...
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Pact signed, Melanesian committed to protect & sustainably manage the Pacific Ocean
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape, alongside Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat, have officially signed the historic...
France backs Pacific Ocean push at Melanesian Summit
France has thrown its support behind Melanesian efforts to protect the Pacific Ocean, with French Ambassador to Papua New Guinea Pierre Fournier telling leaders...
MSG visionary defends Udaune declaration as shield against global greenwashing
Leonard Louma, former Director General of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat, Wednesday issued a defence of the Udaune Declaration, as a radical and...