Photo: Fiji National University

5 March 2024 - Pacific marine conservation efforts overwhelmingly focus on coral reefs with seagrass ecosystems marginalised in conservation legislation and policy.

4 April 2024 - More than thirty youth volunteers of the World Wildlife for Nature (WWF) Pacific participated in a seagrass restoration training program last week Friday.

7 February 2024 - Vanuatu took a significant stride towards environmental conservation and sustainable management with the convening of the first National Steering Committee (NSC) meeting for the MACBLUE project.

5 December 2024 - Waste management and natural resource management are key priorities in the conservation and management of blue carbon ecosystems. These were shared by the women of the four coastal villages in Dawasamu - Driti, Nataleira, Nasinu and Silana village during a capacity-building workshop yesterday.

21 November, 2023 - World Fisheries Day is celebrated annually on November 21.

The annual event recognises the importance of our fisheries whether it’s coastal or offshore.

Additionally, it is a call for restoration of some of our degraded ecosystems that support important fisheries. One of which is seagrass.

20 October, 2023 - In collaboration with the Fiji’s Department of Environment, a legal review workshop was conducted today at the Greenhouse Coworking in Suva.

4 October, 2023 - Opening Address by the Acting General Manager, MRV and National Communications, Climate Change Development Authority - Ms Debra Sungi for the Papua New Guinea MACBLUE Inception Workshop

14 August, 2023 - A week-long regional workshop on Land Cover Mapping for Estimating Carbon Emissions ended last Friday with renewed focus on the land cover mapping component of the emissions estimation process.

7 August, 2023 - Seagrass is important for a lot of things that happens in the water as well as mangroves. If there is no seagrass, there would be no Dugong and Turtles.

26 July, 2023 - All around the world, July 26 is commemorated as the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem.

In 2015, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during its General Conference proclaimed the day, otherwise known as the World Mangrove Day, which was commemorated in 2016.

The selected candidate will be supporting the MACBLUE project in advising the PNG government and national stakeholder on strategies of the protection, management, use and rehabilitation of mangrove and seagrass ecosystems in coordination with the implementing partners.

6 July, 2023 - An inception meeting on the Management and Conservation of Blue Carbon Ecosystems (MACBLUE) project took place yesterday with Vanuatu government and civil society representatives at the Melanesian Hotel in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

7 July, 2023 - A pilot seagrass restoration project was undertaken earlier this week in the village of Nataleira in the Dawasamu district.

3 March, 2023 - Papua New Guinea is home to the highest number of species and total cover of mangroves and seagrasses within the Pacific Island countries.  The Government of Papua New Guinea recognizes the importance of its blue carbon ecosystems for local communities and for supporting and conserving its rich biodiversity on land and at sea.

23 June 2023 - Seagrasses are valuable marine flowering plants that exclusively grow in intertidal and shallow subtidal waters of sheltered near-shore environments.

9 June, 2023 - Members of the Pacific Ocean Alliance (POA) gathered this morning for a mangrove seedling potting at the Lami Fisheries Station.

8 June, 2023 - Our oceans are a source of life, a means to habitation for our marine organisms and source of food and survival and means of transportation. This is the very reason it deserves the attention we are giving it today.

29 May, 2023 - MACBLUE Project Director Raphael Linzatti participated at a plenary session at the Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI), the Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome from May 9 to May 11.

1 March, 2023 - Seagrass is a vital part of the marine ecosystem due to their numerous functions that includes stabilizing the sea bottom, providing food and habitat for other marine organisms, maintaining water quality, and supporting local economies.

2 February, 2023 - Wetlands can store up to fifty times more carbon compared to rain forests

Currently the world’s mangroves store carbon equivalent to over 21 gigatons of CO2. Destruction of mangrove ecosystems releases this carbon back into the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change.