Oceania Micronesia A new community-led project aims to protect the turtles and increase local farming output by completely eliminating invasive pests, like lizards and pigs, from the island of Loosiep, a crucial refuge for endangered green sea turtles Chelonia mydas
Oceania Palau Surangel and Sons Company filed a civil lawsuit against Palau's Island Times newspaper, its publisher and editor Leilani Reklai, accusing them of negligence and defamation
Oceania Marshall Islands Rhea Moss-Christian, from the Marshall Islands, told an Australian television and radio network that within the nuclear tests conducted by the United States in her country, the Marshallese people were victims and suffered collateral damage
Oceania Kiribati A national training workshop on geographic information systems was recently held, facilitated by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development
Oceania Samoa Children aged from 4 to 14 from Samoa became the youngest official delegates to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Apia
Oceania Solomon Islands A new regional fisheries surveillance centre will soon be built at the Forum Fisheries Agency in Honiara, whose foundation stone-laying ceremony was held in the presence of Prime Minister Manele
Oceania Papua New Guinea The Foreign Minister Tkatchenko said his country will not participate in the upcoming UN International Climate Conference, which he called 'a complete waste of time' and will boycott the meetings until 'the big polluters get their act together'
Oceania Tuvalu The inauguration ceremony of the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project Phase 2 (TCAP-II) was celebrated on the island of Fongafale by the Government of Tuvalu and the Pacific Office of the UNDP, together with development partners
Oceania Fiji The Cane Growers' Cooperative Savings and Loan Association shared updates on ongoing efforts to grow cooperatives and support members during a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica
Oceania Marshall Islands Mulan John is the country' new lawyer; after being sworn in she has been admitted to the Marshall Islands Bar during a ceremony
Oceania Tonga Tonga's Department of Statistics team is conducting household surveys to collect data on the lives of women and children; Tonga is the first Pacific island country to conduct such a survey focusing on data on the lives of women and children
Oceania New Zealand A major fire is raging through a protected wetland in the Waikato region of the North Island, endangering its fragile ecosystem and the rare species that inhabit it, many of which are found nowhere else on the planet
Oceania Micronesia The FSM Ambassador to Switzerland presented his credentials to the Swiss President; the first bilateral accreditation to a country in Europe, the event was saluted as a milestone in international diplomacy and commitment to global cooperation