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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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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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 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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Small-scale tourism development by rural communities, especially in the Yasawas group of islands, is becoming an important part of the Fijian tourism package. Such developments are usually small-scale, low-technology, minimal planning, low investment and are aimed at the budget traveller.
Here are some great info sheets about assisting in these matters.
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Across the world, areas with high or important biodiversity are often located within Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ conserved territories and areas (ICCAs).
Traditional and contemporary systems of stewardship embedded within cultural practices enable the conservation, restoration and connectivity of ecosystems, habitats, and specific species in accordance with indigenous and local worldviews.
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The handbook provides details of relevant laws protecting turtles, offences, penalties, and guidance on investigative procedures and information on turtle species that will assist authorised enforcement officers and enforcement agencies to strengthen turtle protection in Fiji.
…Turtles play an important role in Pacific culture as well as that of the indigenous Fijians or iTaukei.
In certain parts of Fiji, turtles are considered totem animals or spirits. Turtles, traditional mats and whale’s teeth have cultural signi?icance and are used in some parts of Fiji in traditional ceremonies such as Chiefly weddings and Chiefly installations.
Legends of these sea creatures remain in the oral traditions to the present day.
…Saving Sea Turtles In Fiji – A Guide For Law Enforcement – Part 1 – The LawRead More »
Saving Sea Turtles In Fiji – A Guide For Law Enforcement – Part 1 – The Law Read More »
Come and help celebrate Fiji’s magnificent Sharks, Rays and Turtles, have fun and show you care about our world’s delicate coral reefs: join the hunt for the Great Fiji Shark!
In 2012 Fiji is getting serious about Shark Protection!
Across the world it is recognised that sharks are vital to the health and balance of marine ecosystems, yet they are globally overfished and hunted to the brink of extinction. Sharks survived the dinosaurs, but they may not survive mankind unless we take action now! …
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