Fiji Environment Management Act
Fiji’s Environment Management Act 2005 (“EMA”) came into force on 1 January 2008.
Additionally these Regulations have also come into force:
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Fiji Mangrove Field ID Guides
Here are a few of the simple Fiji Mangrove Field ID Guides we use at Marine Ecology Consulting
We use them laminated and clipped to the back of our survey gear when out hiking for hours amongst the mangroves in the South Pacific…
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Make your own reef survey equipment
Working in Fiji and other South Pacific Nations means you often have to make your own reef survey equipment which has to be rugged and faily low tech.
Here are instruction sheets for how I make my survey equipment.
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Foldable Quadrat Frames
This is made to be broken down for easy transport.
It can be made permanent by gluing all 4 corners instead.
Download complete pdf of quadrat making Instructions
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Turbidity Tube Construction
There are many ways to build a turbidity tube. On this page, we will look at the key components of a tube and then discuss possible substitutions for these different components.
This section is very broad to allow flexibility in design and material use.
A detailed set of instructions for a specific turbidity tube design can be found here: The Turbidity Tube_ Simple and Accurate Measurement of Turbidity.
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Sediment Traps
Making Sediment Traps
Domestic quality PVC Drainpipe can be easily cut to any size with a bandsaw or jigsaw.
For many pipe widths, custom made caps are available to use as bottoms, or flat pieces of PVC can be cut and glued to the bottom using PVC cement.
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Crown of Thorns Sea Star – facts and suggestions
The Crown of Thorns Sea Star (COTS) is known locally in Fiji as “Bula”. It is a large, spiky star with up to 15 legs, which feeds on the live coral animals, leaving white, dead coral skeletons behind it.
These quickly grow over with fuzzy algae, leaving a dead, unattractive piece of reef.
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Checklist of the Fishes of Fiji
Johnson Seeto & Wayne J. Baldwin have published the USP offical Checklist of the Fishes of Fiji and a Bibliography of Fijian Fish …
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Vote for The Great Fiji Shark Count
Vote for us in Ocean Action Project 2013
Help get the financial support we need to run the next Great Fiji Shark Count!
Voting is on for the Ocean Action Project 2013 and we need your vote for The Great Fiji Shark Count! Projects will be chosen by the Project AWARE community through a voting system via Facebook. …
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