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FLMMA Marine Monitoring Training Videos

FLMMA Marine Monitoring Training

This training video is based on the community-based biological monitoring training guide developed by the Institute of Applied Science (IAS) of the University of the South Pacific (USP) this training video is primarily for use by locally managed marine area network partners that is NGO partners and communities throughout Fiji and Asia Pacific region.

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Marine Conservation Agreements Guidance for the Tourism Industry in Fiji

Marine Conservation Agreements Guidance for the Tourism Industry in Fiji

WCS funded a piece of work to look at the extent to which marine conservation agreements were being used as a tool by the tourism sector to partner with the local communities.

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What is this Environment and Climate Adaptation Levy (ECAL)

About once a month we have a client or colleague ask us “So, what exactly is this Environment and Climate Adaptation Levy (ECAL), and what does the Government do with it?”

So in the spirit of answering questions and putting this online so it’s easy to Google, here is the official Fiji Government presentation and talk about what the Environment and Climate Adaptation Levy (ECAL) is all about.

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Designing Practical Sustainability in South Pacific Island States

Designing Practical Sustainability in South Pacific Island States

I was asked to give a Presentation to TS309 – Tourism Business Entrepreneurship at the University of the South Pacific – School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Semester 1 – 2020, April 2020.

This is part of the Bachelor of Commerce in Tourism & Hospitality Management.

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Aquarium products in the Pacific Islands: a review of the fisheries, management and trade

Aquarium products in the Pacific Islands: a review of the fisheries, management and trade – Robert Gillett, Mike A. McCoy, Ian Bertram, Jeff Kinch, Aymeric Desurmont and Andrew Halford

March 2020

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Mantas in Fiji – Mobula alfredi & Mobula birostris

Manta-2-species-2019

Just in December last year (2018) we have scientifically confirmed that we have both types of mantas in Fiji waters, both Reef Manta Ray ( Mobula alfredi) and Oceanic Manta Ray (Mobula birostris).

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Snapshot of the 2019 coral bleaching in Fiji

Snapshot of the 2019 coral bleaching in Fiji
Download the 2019 Coral Bleaching Fiji FactsheetDownload

Impact of coral bleaching

Found in tropical oceans, corals are important reef builders that secrete calcium carbonate to form coral reefs. Corals live in a mutualistic relationship with symbiotic algae, which use sunlight to produce food for corals and get shelter in return. Under stress, such as elevated seawater temperatures for prolonged periods, corals can start to bleach.

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Mangrove Management Plan for Fiji 2013 (MMP2013)

Mangrove Management Plan 2013 (MMP2013

This report, the Mangrove Management Plan 2013 (MMP2013), has been prepared by Dr Dick Watling, Environment Consultants Fiji (ECF) for the Department of the Environment (DoEnv) as the focal point for the Mangrove Eco Systems for Climate Change Adaptation and Livelihood project Project (MESCAL).

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Reef Conditions, Somosomo Straits, Taveuni from 2002 onwards – Fiji Coral Reef Monitoring Network (FCRMN)

Reef Conditions, Somosomo Straits, Taveuni from 2002 onwards - Fiji Coral Reef Monitoring Network (FCRMN)

Background

Reef Surveys have been carried out at two sites (the Great White Wall on the outer face, and the back of Blue Ribbon Eel Reef / Jerry’s Jelly on the inside of the Rainbow Reef) in the Somosomo Straits since 2002, with the exception of 2005 (Rainbow Reef only), 2008 (no surveys), and 2015 – 2017 (no surveys due to poor weather and time constraints).

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Baby Corals Everywhere!

Fiji’s Resilient Reefs

Coral reefs are ancient, living organisms, which have seen and adapted to many changes over millions of years.

It’s one of the oddities of the human race that we expect natural systems to be constant, but as the climate and environment alter, so do reefs around the world, and those in Fiji are no exception.

As you travel around Fiji you will soon come to realise that there are many types of reefs – spectacular hard coral walls, colourful soft coral bommies, dramatic and spooky rocky passages, rubble patches filled with weird and wonderful critters.

What you may not realise is that these reefs change year by year, react to pressures in many different ways, grow and adapt like any other natural ecosystem.

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  • A good start to the New Year – Fiji’s Bycatch Guidelines & Bycatch Mitigation Toolkits
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