Indigenous Peoples' calls for a Ban on #DSM at the Indigenous Peoples' & #JustTransition Conference

A declaration by 87 Indigenous Peoples’ representatives from 35 countries in the 7 socio-cultural regions of the🌏

You can access the full declaration: iprights.org/index.php/en/a…

PANG Coordinator Maureen Penjueli attended the Indigenous Peoples' & #JustTransition Conference affirming our solidarity with the sentiments expressed 87 Indigenous Peoples’ representatives from 35 countries in the 7 socio-cultural regions of the🌏

Pacific-centric practical tools (that are globally relevant) to better integrate GEDSI and human rights into nature-based solutions. All free to download. SPREP Kiwa Initiative Talanoa Consulting
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Soil is an immense habitat for diverse organisms across the trees of life.
Studies have shown that over 500 million species live in the soil. 🪱🐛🐝🕷🪲
learn more from PNASNews pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…➡️

This. I didn’t grow up in Suva but I know many who have been priced out of neighborhoods they grew up in. Don’t get me started on the normalizing of gated communities. All that money, zero taste and even less environmental stewardship. Reprehensible.

Greece has announced today at #OurOcean2024 that it will #BanBottomTrawling in all of its marine protected areas by 2030 starting with its national parks. It's time for other EU countries to be bold and leave destructive fishing in protected areas in the past.

Always love sharing the latest version of the Pacific Community Pacific Live tweets Women in Fisheries Bulletin. Surge of articles from my government colleagues make this a rich edition to celebrate International Women's Day. #IWD2024 fame.spc.int/publications/b…

Exciting news today for scientists, divers, and MERMAID partners across the coral triangle – our website is now available in Bahasa Indonesia! 🌊 🇮🇩

Learn how to access the new translation widget here: datamermaid.org/reef-stories/b…

Terima kasih banyak! #OurOcean2024 #ForCoral

BREAKING: The Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record.

This is the FIFTH bleaching event in EIGHT years. This is a CLEAR sign that our climate and oceans are heating at unprecedented rates: buff.ly/3UouOgx

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

🍃Misusing #NaturebasedSolutions can harm biodiversity and communities.

The IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions™ is the first-ever set of benchmarks to ensure strong and effective projects.

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Via IUCN-Rwanda

New @policymarine paper explores how Pacific Island communities maintained #foodsecurity across blue & green systems during the pandemic, and why bolstering Indigenous and local food production & practices is key for resilience.

We can cannot and we should not try to sugar coat it - We are failing to protect coral reefs.There is no arguing the fact, we are failing!
Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record |Climate crisis| The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

Argument to setting barriers to human rather than animal movement across borders for control of zoonotics? — 7,8M individual CITES trades over the past decade — 0,07% of the 10,7B human international arrivals in the same period 🤯
newscientist.com/article/242397…

Sit back and enjoy 10 relaxing minutes at the Octopus Garden🐙

Deep below the ocean’s surface, thousands of pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) gather near an extinct underwater volcano off the California coast to mate and nest.

Learn more: mbari.org/project/the-oc…

In honor of International Women's Day, I celebrate this brilliant daughter of the #MarshallIslands . Gone far too soon but her legacy lives on in her contributions to our scientific understanding of atoll environments impacted by #nucleartesting and #climatechange . Rest in Love.

🌱🌏 🤝 Assessing #HumanRights Risks in #NbS projects is paramount.

➡️A specific tool has been developped to conduct human rights risk assessments, click here to download it: urlz.fr/q0tQ

SAVE THE DATES ! 📚🌱

➡️ #Human #Rights , 03.20.2024, 12:00 PM Fiji Islands. Register: urlz.fr/pW4C

➡️ #GEDSI , 04.10.2024, 12:00 PM Fiji Islands. Register: urlz.fr/pW4E

➡️ #GEDSI #Analysis , 04.24.2024, 12:00 PM Fiji Islands. Register: urlz.fr/pW4F

Human rights are crucial for designing and executing #NbS projects ! 🌿

Discover 12 #humanrights that should be considered when designing and implementing NbS for #climatechangeadaptation in the Pacific region ! 🌏

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Congrats #2 to the Ministry of Fisheries, Fiji for your research on sea urchin harvesters in Fiji. Local government scientists, leading locally-relevant research. fame.spc.int/publications/b…

Check out our article on Fish in Pacific Food Systems in the latest Women in Fisheries Bulletin. Food and Agriculture Organization WorldFish