For the Ninth Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas December 2013, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) commissioned an assessment of the status of biodiversity and conservation in Oceania. This report assesses the overall state of conservation in Tonga using 16 indicators.
*this report wasn't published but was sent to country for checking (2013)* - to be used for the Regional SOE initiative 2019
Final submission of the Tonga SOE 2018, NEMS and PIN. These files are zipped together to reduce file size.
Data compiled and used for developing the Tonga SOE, NEMS and PINS. An excel file "SoE Data Sources.xlsx contained the sources of the data in report but all data used for the analysis are included in this folder.
Final draft SoE professionally with professional layout for final review.
This data set in collaboration from SPREP.
This is the Department of Environment Work plan for 2019.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map & spatial database of the whole world. This dataset is an extract of OpenStreetMap data for Tonga in a GIS-friendly format.
The OSM data has been split into separate layers based on themes (buildings, roads, points of interest, etc), and it comes bundled with a QGIS project and styles, to help you get started with using the data in your maps. This OSM product will be updated weekly.
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the most comprehensive global database of marine and terrestrial protected areas, updated on a monthly basis, and is one of the key global biodiversity data sets being widely used by scientists, businesses, governments, International secretariats and others to inform planning, policy decisions and management.
Powerpoint presentation on the data portal
This is an update of Tonga State of Environment summary
FAO Agriculture and Fair Trade in Pacific Island Countries. This desk study has been prepared by Winnie Fay Bell and comments were kindly provided by the Pacific Regional Organic Task Force in May 2009
This is a test to be removed.
Whale watching zones and point shapefiles. Source: Ministry of Land Planning and Natural Resources.
End of Internship presentation on Pacific Climate Finance. Section are: climate finance challenges, overview of climate finance in the Pacific, and next steps.
This dataset contains the raw data collected for the Tonga waste audit undertaken by APWC conducted on Tongatapu, Vava'u and Ha'apai funded by the World Bank
Tonga fleet longline catch for tuna and other species. Source: Fisheries Department.
"Comparison of the average hard coral cover between the three five-year periods comprising the last 15 years (2005-09, 2010-14, 2015-19, Tab. 9.3) indicated that there was a high degree of confidence (93%) in the long-term decline, despite the uncertainty in individual yearly estimates. Further, the vast majority (90%) of this decline occurred between 2010-14 and 2015-19, suggesting that the rate of decline in hard coral cover has accelerated during the last five years"