A RIDGE TO REEF APPROACH IN WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES

Nuku’alofa – November 9, 2018: 2.05pm (Enviro News): Tonga is working on having in place a National Mangroves Management Plan. Share

NEIAFU, Vava’u – November 9, 2018: 1.55pm (Enviro News): The people of Vava’u have given the proposed Marine Spatial Plan their overwhelming support. Share

PANGAI, Ha’apai – October 18, 2018: 10.45am (Enviro News):  Tonga Oceans 7 Marine Spatial Planning team is excited with the general support and feedback from members of the different communities they consulted with in Ha’apai in the past two weeks. Share

NEIAFU, Vava’u – October 18, 2018: 9.50am (Enviro News): The Minister for MEIDECC, Hon Poasi Tei, will join the Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) consultation team here in Neiafu today. Share

APIA, Samoa – September 26, 2018: 9.30am (Enviro News): In preparation for the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a preparatory meeting was conducted this week for the Pacific Islands Region over three days from September 24 to today here in Apia. Share

NADI, Fiji – September 13, 2018: 9.28am (IUCN): With the aim to increase understanding key aspects of marine spatial planning (MSP) in the Pacific region, more than eighty participants from governments, NGO stakeholders and partners gathered in Nadi, Fiji on 11 September, 2018 for the Pacific Regional Peer-to-Peer Workshop on Marine Spatial Planning. Share

NADI, Fiji – September 11, 2018: 3pm (Enviro News): Tonga is being represented at the ‘Regional Technical, Peer-to-peer, Marine Spatial Planning Learning Workshop’ in Nadi, Fiji this week. Share

SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A – September 11, 2018: 3pm (UN NEWS CENTRE): A trial run of an innovative system designed to clean up the world’s seas and oceans, founded by UN Environment Programme (UNEP) “Champion of the Earth” laureate Boyan Slat, has set off from San Francisco, in a bid to begin the removal of the Read More …

Nuku’alofa – September 6, 2018: 4.20pm (Enviro News): Members of the Marine Spatial Plan Consultation Team were boosted by a timely visit by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Climate Change, Environment and Sustainable Development, Hon Siaosi Sovaleni in Nuku’alofa on Wednesday. Share

NUKU’ALOFA – September 4, 2018: 3.42pm (Enviro News): A two-day Consultants Training is being conducted in Nuku’alofa this week to prepare for the planned Outer Islands Awareness Consultation campaign to be conducted by the Department of Environment. Share