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Landmark funding to protect benefits of tuna against climate change
Television Niue
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February 25, 2025
A significant grant of US$107 million dollars has been awarded to the Conservation International and the Pacific Community to support 14 Pacific countries including Niue. The funding aims to protect the economic and social benefits derived from...
Stronger ties: PH, Palau ink deals on agriculture, fisheries conservation
Politiko
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February 24, 2025
The Philippines and Palau on Monday signed three agreements on agriculture, fisheries conservation, and policy consultations as part of efforts to expand the bilateral ties between the two countries in the Western Pacific. These are: a memorandum...
Marcos welcomes Palau leader for 2-day visit; pacts signed to boost ties
Inquirer
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February 24, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday welcomed Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. to Malacañang Palace for a two-day official visit, marking a milestone in the strengthening of ties between the two nations. Whipps,...
Philippines to continue boundary dialogue with Palau
Philstar
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February 24, 2025
Jean Mangaluz - Philstar.com February 24, 2025 | 3:21pm MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has pledged to continue discussions on boundary delineation with the country of Palau. Palau is an island nation that lies 400 nautical miles southwest...
Palau Customs Launches E-Payment System For Seamless Customs Duty And Tax Payments
Scoop
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[16 December 2024; Republic of Palau] In a major step toward enhancing efficiency and streamlining trade processes, the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (BCBP) of the Republic of Palau has implemented an electronic payment system. This...
Ghiro reminds summit delegates of the ocean’s sustainability
Solomon Star
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February 26, 2025
Solomon Islands Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Nestor Ghiro has reminded the more than 300 delegates participating in the 2025 Honiara Summit of the importance of managing the oceans and marine resources. Minister Ghiro issued this...
The Pacific Diving Paradise of Palau Wants Travelers to Explore Its Cultural Depths, Too (Photos)
The National Herald
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February 20, 2025
KOROR, Palau (AP) — While researching an upcoming trip to Palau, a tiny island nation dotting Micronesia’s western edge, I found endless information about its famed mushroom-shaped Rock Islands and spectacular diving sites, including over 50 World...
The Pacific diving paradise of Palau wants travelers to explore its cultural depths, too
myMotherLode - California
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February 20, 2025
KOROR, Palau (AP) — While researching an upcoming trip to Palau, a tiny island nation dotting Micronesia’s western edge, I found endless information about its famed mushroom-shaped Rock Islands and spectacular diving sites, including over 50 World...
In Trump’s shadow, IPCC set to make key decision on timing of climate science review
Climate Home News
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February 21, 2025
Governments are expected to face fraught discussions next week over the timeline of several key climate science reports and the fallout of a reported US exit from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). At a week-long plenary...
Column: Head off looming environmental disaster with impact fee
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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February 20, 2025
Like many island systems, Hawaii and its ecosystems are extremely vulnerable to the dangerous threats from climate change. As a scholar of environmental history, I know first-hand that these threats sit on more than a century of major impacts to...
PICRC launches 2025 reef fish stock surveys across Palau
Island Times
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February 21, 2025
This February, the Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) began its nationwide reef fish stock surveys. These crucial efforts are conducted every two years to monitor populations of protected and commercially important fish species and help...
14 Pacific Island countries receive a major grant to manage one third of the world’s tuna in the face of the climate crisis
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Fololina Avia, received an ADB funded small business grant to expand her "Lady Edwina" fishing company and stall at the Apia fish market. Copyright Asian Development Bank/ Flickr Creative Commons The programme, with a total value of US$156.8 M –...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – July 4 – July 10, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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July 11, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
Palau’s president invites Donald Trump to ‘visit the Pacific’ to see...
Pacific News Service
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Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr is inviting United States President-elect Donald Trump to “visit the Pacific” to see firsthand the impacts of the climate crisis. Palau is set to host the largest annual Pacific leaders meeting in 2026, and the...
ITB Berlin 2025: Focus on sustainable tourism and social responsibility
Hospitality Net
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February 18, 2025
From 4 to 6 March, the World's Leading Travel Trade Show will set the pace in terms of sustainability and social responsibility topics. With high-profile panels, forward-looking initiatives by exhibitors from 26 countries in the Responsible...
Palau adopts Comprehensive National Water Policy to address Water Security and Equity
Island Times
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December 6, 2024
, Palau —President Surangel Whipps Jr. signed the National Water Policy on Dec. 4, 2024 aimed at ensuring sustainable water resource management and improving access to clean water and sanitation services across Palau. The policy addresses critical...
Palau’s invitation to Trump wasted on a climate change denier
Pacific Media Network
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OPINION: Is Donald Trump the great climate change denier that he's been painted as? Naturally, I'd say yes, given the policy platform he pushed at this year's election. But an opportunity has just presented itself for Trump to see firsthand the...
Palauan Divers blessed with sSightings of Five Mantas after call to Earth Beach Clean-Up + Dive
Island Times
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December 6, 2024
On November 23, 2024, members of the Palau Pledge Dive Club and the Palau High School Sports Club gathered for a Beach Clean-up and Dive Event to promote sustainability and ocean conservation. Supported by the Embassy of France to the Philippines...
Plastic pollution could put 2.3 million Pacific Islanders’ livelihoods at stake
Pacific News Service
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By Sanjeshni Kumar In seven to eight years, the Pacific will no longer be able to rely on the ocean for food security or as a source of livelihood as it does today because of plastic pollution. Experts say that by 2030, up to 53 million metric...
Palau's president invites Trump to visit to see climate crisis impacts
RNZ
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December 5, 2024
Surangel Whipps Jr, left, wants US President-elect Donald Trump to see firsthand the impacts of climate change. Photo: RNZ Pacific / PICRC Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr is inviting United States President-elect Donald Trump to "visit the...