Traditional way of life in the pacific islands in the expression of each and everybody's identity. The link between people and their natural habitat, living and unliving things is key to someone's social status, relationship to other member of its community and existence in the world. The session shall look at the importance of traditional knowledge and its relation to the environment as a way to protect existing biodiversity and thus ensuring that the cultural heritage of Pacific Island population i preserved.
Illustrate the current state of marine habitats on the Pacific - mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrasses
Economic value, ecosystems services, social and cultural value of these habitats to Pacific Island people
Ongoing efforts to address multiple threats and stresses on these habitats including climate change - community level national and regional level
Call Number: [EL]
Physical Description: 1:04:28
For the Ninth Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas December 2013, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) commissioned an assessment of the status of biodiversity and conservation in Oceania.
This dataset holds all the reports that assesses the overall state of conservation in;
* Guam
* French Polynesia
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Tokelau
* Wallis and Futuna
* Pitcairn Islands
Data from the Tonga Meteorological Office.
10 year data series of :
i. Wind Speed
ii. Rainfall
iii. Mean Temperature
Recorded Tropical cyclones that have crossed the vicinity of Tonga from 2015-2018
Bill for an act to establish a national climate change fund for Tonga, to receive monies from national and international sources and to finance national projects which deal with climate change and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Monitoring reports for Fanga'uta Lagoon, Tongatapu.
Please find the final version of the Tonga State of the Environment 2018 Report developed by Water Technology and SPREP
Please find the final versions of the Tonga State of the Environment 2018 Report, National Environment Management Strategy 2018 - 2023 and Project Idea Notes. Also the SoE Data Sources.
The Tonga NEMS 2018 - 2023
Project Idea Notes based on the developed SoE and NEMS
Data sources. Not complete. Will get it done this weekend.
This dataset hosts all photos captured by the Department.
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.