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ABC Radio Law Report with Damien Carrick - May 2022

ABC Radio Law Report with Damien Carrick – May 2022

Fiji environmental crime verdict ‘sets precedent’

ABC Radio Law Report interview about Freesoul Real Estate Development Ltd who had days to appeal a ground-breaking fine imposed by Fiji’s High Court after the resort developer carried out unauthorised works on a remote island. And environmental law in the Pacific.

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Contributions of tourism-based Marine Conservation Agreements to natural resource management in Fiji – MCA Paper

Highlights

  • Marine Conservation Agreements in Fiji are largely being used to establish MPAs.
  • Less than a third of MCAs include explicit financial incentives.
  • MCAs are contributing to biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries.

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There is a saying in Waitabu that if everything is alright in the community, the nuqa will appear. When they do, there is a ritual called "ta nuqa" (literally, fetching nuqa) performed at the beach to catch these tiny animals.

Traditional Nuqa harvest at Waitabu signifies a peaceful and harmonised Vanua!

In long-standing Fijian custom, each tribe has its own series of totems which usually include a fish, a bird, and a tree. “Nuqa”, the spinefoot rabbitfish are the traditional totemic fish of Yavusa Naisaqai, including Waitabu village.

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Vanua as Environment: Conservation, Farming, and Development in Waitabu, Fiji

Vanua as Environment: Conservation, Farming, and Development in Waitabu, Fiji

by Hao-Li Lin, BA, Anthropology, National Taiwan University, 2004

Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Defended and approved on March 16th, 2015

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Status of Coral Reefs of the World Report: 2020

The Sixth Edition of the Sixth Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) Status of Coral Reefs of the World Report: 2020 was launched on October 5th 2021. 

This flagship product of the GCRMN describes the status and trends of coral reefs worldwide.

This sixth edition is the first since 2008, and the first based on the quantitative analysis of a global dataset compiled from raw monitoring data contributed by more than 300 members of the network.

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Best Practice Mangrove Planting For Fiji - A Discussion Document

Best Practice Mangrove Planting For Fiji – A Discussion Document

Currently, Fiji has no national policy, plan or official guidelines for mangrove planting.

This review has been prepared by Dr Dick Watling, and is founded on nearly 40 years of observation and interest in Fiji’s mangrove, assistance as a member of the Mangrove Management Committee since its inception (when functioning) and consultant to the private and public sector on mangrove issues in Fiji.

He is the author of the Mangrove Management Plan for Fiji 1985-86 and its follow up in 2013.

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A Mangrove Management Plan for Fiji MMP for Fiji (Phase 1)

A Mangrove Management Plan for Fiji (Phase 1) – February 1983

This Mangrove Management Plan, written in 1985 by one of Fiji’s foremost terrestrial biologists, Dr Dick Watling, while not formulated into law in the Fiji Islands, remain the only comprehensive study of Fiji’s mangrove areas available.

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Dreketi River Estuary Shark and Ray Report

Helen Sykes supplies data for Dreketi River & Estuary Shark and Ray Report 2021

Research provided for this report by Helen Sykes in 2018 highlighted that Fiji is home to at least 30  coastal and oceanic shark species  with a quarter of these listed on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)[2] .

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Global Study Uses Reef Check Data to Show Reef Corals Survive Bleaching When Less Algae Are Present

new study published today in the journal Science suggests that reducing the amount of algae growing on coral reefs could help them survive bleaching events caused by global warming.

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