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This dataset gives an overview of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai volcanic eruption that occurred on 15 Jan, 2022 and led to an induced tsunami event.  From updates, to spatial maps and damage preliminary impact assessments detected from Pleiades images. You can easily access and find them all on this dashboard.

 

The Integrated Water and Coastal Management Plan for Vava'u acrhipelago in the Kingdom of Tonga has involved consultations with multi-level and multi-discipline stakeholder including local, provincial and national institutions, civil societies, private institutions and communities.
The Integrated Water and Coastal Management (IWCM) project was initiated in 2013 as a continuation of the very successful Integrated Water Resource Management Project in Vava'u from 2010-2012.

The deliverable focuses on a categorized listing of key issues and available information plus a concise description of the major characteristics of the Tongatapu coast (see Appendix B). The evidence to support the recommendations presented in this report has been gathered from a literature review, interviews with key stakeholders of Tongan government agencies and consideration of existing institutional practices of coastal management planning from the international arena (see Deliverable 2).

Rising oceans, changing lives: Final report is the overview report in a series of technical reports that have been
written for the project on Lifuka Island. Accordingly the section titles in the final report correspond with the
names of the respective technical reports.

This was an integrated effort by all concerned with the coastline in Tonga.

Integrated Coastal management applied conscious management process that acknowledge the interrelationships among most coastal and ocean uses and the environment that potentially affected.

This preamble is a synopsis of the material contained in the Tonga Water Supply Master Plan Executive Summary Report.

Report on survey work to provide baseline information on the status of reef
fisheries, and to help fill the massive information gap that hinders the effective management
of reef fisheries. Surveys took place 2001, 2002 and 2008.

Pdf report. The Tonga NPOA (sharks) is a policy guideline that ensures conservation and management of oceanic sharks in the Kingdom’s fisheries waters. It also promotes long-term sustainability and optimum use of sharks in Tonga’s Tuna longline fishery in accordance to national development policy frameworks, and special needs and requirements to develop and commercialise its fisheries. In the medium-long term, the Plan serves to minimize any adverse environmental effects of fishing on oceanic shark species.

The Tonga Deepwater Fishery Management Plan guides the management and devel-opment of the deep slope resources of snapper, grouper and emperors in Tonga fisher-ies waters.

Marine Pollution ppt by Richardson

This EIA report has thus been prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Communications with technical assistance from the JICA Preparatory Survey. The requirements stipulated in the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2010, and JICA’s “Guidelines for Environmental and Social Considerations (2010)” were referred in the process.

Marine Spatial Planning is an integrated and participatory planning process and tool that seeks to balance ecological, economic, and social objectives, aiming for sustainable marine resource use and prosperous blue economies.

This atlas is part of MACBIO’s support to its partner countries’ marine spatial planning processes. These processes aim to balance uses with the need to effectively manage and protect the rich natural capital upon which those uses rely.

A report on a nation-wide “lessons learned” conference on marine Special Management Areas in Ha’apai, facilitated by MACBIO and Department of Fisheries and the Civil Society Forum of Tonga.

This report presents, for the first time, marine bioregions across the Southwest Pacific in general, and Tonga in particular, at a scale that can be used nationally, as a basis for the systematic identification of an ecologically representative system of marine protected areas.

Bioregions, of course, are just one of the important data layers in indentifying an ecologically representative system of marine protected areas.

A report on the identification of special and/or unique marine areas (SUMAs) in Tonga.