Our friend from Fiji Gabriel Mara gets it. It’s time to #PayUp4LossAndDamage at #COP27 ‼️

Gabriel Mara ■Home: Fiji🇫🇯 ■Background: Scylla Serrata survivability and interaction, coral reef health and ecosystem interaction🦀🦈 ■The Voyage: An invaluable experience in the Pacific to see the challenges faced there and appreciate the region's richness in all its aspects.

On the 01/01/2022 I witnessed a true phenomenon, thousands of humpback and fin whales! 🐋 I’ll never forget the feeling of this moment - starting the year with an abundance of whales and happiness. Bring on 2023!🌊⛴ #whales #polar #exploration #HappyNewYear

#Indigenous traditional knowledge of the environment represents a key resource for developing innovative solutions to combating hunger, climate change and protecting biodiversity. Get involved. Let’s protect #Indigenouslanguages on.unesco.org/3TEDqMD Food and Agriculture Organization

A wonderful piece on the experiences of sailing with 2022’s strongest typhoon onboard a century-old tall ship that was 12 months into a 20-month circumnavigation of the globe. From research to the afternoon ukulele tunes to chasing a typhoon. spf.org/en/opri/newsle…

Human Mobility in Context of Climate Change: Field visit to Vuniniudrovu, a village with extremely high flood vulnerability. 🇩🇪Ambassador Menzenbach and I felt deeply honoured by welcome ceremony🙏🏼 Thanks to Jovesa Vocea, Assistant Minister of Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and DM for accompanying us🙏🏼

Scarce food and water resources caused by #climatechange leads to higher workloads for women and girls. Over the last 2 days, the Pacific Resilience Partnership Taskforce has discussed building the #resilience of our #Pacific communities in the face of challenges like these.

This was capped off by a workshop with ADB Pacific, focused on including women in climate action and gender-responsive implementation. The PRIF

Launch of the Financial Management Policy Guidelines and information briefs on Fiji’s Climate Relocation Trust Fund, further pieces of the robust measures in place for addressing L+D and supporting the #agency of vulnerable communities #TC2 #LossAndDamage #unfccc #GIZ #GovtNZ

✨Excited to announce Anaïs 🇳🇨 and I's curated interview is now out in the Okinawan Journal of Island Studies Special Issue on Island Activisms: "Unsettling Knowledge Production about/in the French-Colonized Pacific" u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2019694

That's a wrap for #SEATIES workshop in the Pacific🇫🇯 Finishing on a high note w. the visit of #Kiwa project at Sigatoka Sand Dunes🌱 👏Thanks to SPREP & #PCCC & all the participants, 🌊let's keep up the energy to make Pacific Islands more resilient to #SLR & #ClimateChange

The reality of #LossAndDamage in #Fiji is grim, the first Pacific #LossAndDamage Dialogue is told ➡️sprep.org/news/the-grim-… 📷Janet Lotawa and the Fiji Times

USP scholar Salanieta Kitolelei: "Balance is needed between science and traditonal knowledge in managing our oceans. Nature has spoken to Pacific peoples for centuries through flowers and fruiting of trees, and our fishing calendar has revolved around agriculture activities."(1)

Who needs sports psychologists when you have a reverend successfully helping your team!! - Fiji boss Simon Raiwalui reveals a secret weapon, and talks about whether his team will now support Wales versus the Wallabies. #RWC2023 #WALvFIJ #WALvAUS

This article, published in the Fiji Times back in the '60s, nags at me sometimes. Is there really a population of Fiji-Inuit living in Canada's far north? For some reason I need to know. I once e mailed a journalist who lived near Tuktuyaktik to ask, but didn't get a reply.

🎥 NEW SERIES 150 men taken from their island haven, sent 17,000kms from Niue to the cold French frontlines of WWI 🇳🇺 we unraveling why they fought and died in a war they didn't grasp, for an unfamiliar King 🌺 #WATCH Untold Pacific History, Season 2! thecoconet.tv/coco-docos/unt…

Evereli, welcome. [better late than neverrr! 📷]

This one was published in 1972. The terms on the wind compass “refer to the names of winds originating in the sectors and have been secondarily applied to the sectors themselves.” Lewis (1972:114)

📖Read our recent blog posts from Gabriel S.J Mara, a young Fijian 🇫🇯 negotiator and G77 and China coordinator on National #Adaptation Plans. shorturl.at/imJkd