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Our Forests In Solomon Islands

John Schenk

Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) inception meeting presentation: Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation
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Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Programme (PACC)

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Reports of the PACC project
Pacific adaptation to climate change : Solomon islands report of in-country consultations
Climate Change Resilience
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

The capacity of Solomon Islands to meet its obligation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: a National Capacity Self-Assessment
Climate Change Resilience
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Irol Chanel

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Lam Michelle

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Yee Douglas

This is a report focusing on the capacity of Solomon Islands to meet its obligation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The report is part of a National Capacity Self Assessment (NCSA) exercise that is being implemented through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) with funding from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). The Department of Environment and Conservation who is also the National GEF Focal Point is the lead agency responsible for the oversight and on-ground implementation of the exercise. Overall the NCSA has the task to assess the local capacity to meet not only the obligations under Climate Change Convention but also the UN Conventions on Bio-diversity and Land Degradation.
Solomon Islands marine assessment: technical report of survey conducted May 13 to June 17
Biodiversity Conservation
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Green Allison. et al

Reflecting their concern and that of the community representatives who participated in the survey, the survey team has offered a range of recommendations for the conservation and sustainable use of the globally, nationally and locally important marine habitats and resources in the Solomon Islands. These include specific recommendations for the establishment of networks of locally managed marine areas, the management of critically important reef fisheries, the protection of key habitats (coral reefs, seagrasses and mangroves), and the conservation of oceanic cetaceans and associated habitats.
Status of coral reefs in the South West Pacific: Fiji, Nauru, New Caledonia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu
Biodiversity Conservation
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Lovell, Edward et al.

Coral reefs in the Southwest Pacific are generally in good condition. There was extensive coral bleaching during 2000-2002. Since then coral reefs have shown highly variable recovery with some reefs recovering fully to pre-bleaching levels of live coral cover, whereas others have shown virtually no recovery. Nauru experienced coral bleaching and mass fish kills in October-December 2003, possibly due to unusually high sea surface temperatures. The greatest threats to coral reefs of the region continue to be human activities and cyclones, with reefs of New Caledonia, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu having been damaged by cyclones since the 2002 status report. Cyclone Erica in 2003 destroyed 10-80% of live coral cover on New Caledonia. Cyclone Heta struck Samoa in 2004, damaging 13% of the coral reefs, and in mid-2004 an unprecedented number of seabirds were found dead on Nauru; the cause is unknown. The momentum in the protection and conservation of coral reefs in the region has been boosted by increased participation of governments, NGOs, scientists, volunteers and local communities, especially in the implementation of resource management strategies to mitigate human pressure. A series of damaging bleaching, crown-of-thorns starfish, disease and cyclone events in the past 10 years has generated a greater awareness of the need to conserve coral reefs. The SW Pacific Node has established an important network and conducted training, which will contribute greatly to coral reef management in the Pacific. However, these initial investments and initiatives could be seriously compromised after 2004 without ongoing financial support for coordination and monitoring. Monitoring surveys are only useful if they are conducted on a regular basis and tied to relevant issues such as over-fishing, MPA establishment and coral reef management. This report summarises the status of coral reefs of the SW Pacific region and has been compiled from the national reports of the 7 member countries.
Stimulating investment in Pearl farming in Solomon Islands : report 1. Past research and development on blacklip pearl oysters in Solomon Islands
Biodiversity Conservation
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Hawes, Ian

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Mesia Patrick

Information currently available from Solomon Islands on blacklip pearl oysters(Pinctada margaritifera) and their potential culture comes from three main sources; records of past exploitation, occasional resource surveys that have included blacklip pearl oysters; and research on culture of blacklip oysters in Solomon Islands. Statistics on past exploitation are limited to export tonnage and value collected by the Statistics Unit of the Ministry for Fisheries and Marine Resources. Spatially resolved data from within the country, by island or by island group are not available. However, since export appears to have been through a single point. Honiara, these records are likely to reasonably accurately reflect the tonnage exported. Of the various resource assessments that have been undertaken the only recent, nationwide one that we are aware of is that coordinated and funded by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in May- June 2004. All of the information on pearl farming in Solomon Islands is derived from a research project carried out in the period 1993-1997 by the WorldFish Center (previously the International Center for Living Aquatic Resource Management - ICLARM) in collaboration with MFMR and funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). After 1997. through to the present. WorldFish continued research on blacklip pearl production, supported through its own funds, albeit at a reduced level.
Integrated water resources management profiles : Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Biodiversity Conservation

South Pacific Applied Science Commission

Inshore fisheries resources of Solomon Islands
Biodiversity Conservation
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Bell, Joanna D.

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Bell, Lui J

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Richards, Andrew H

Solomon Islanders rely heavily on marine resources and have one of the highest per capita rates of seafood consumption in the world. In 1982, the national average annual consumption of fish per person was estimated to be 25.7 kg, ranging from 10 kg in rural Guadalcanal and San Cristobal, to 54 kg in the Western Province (Cook, 1988). Another survey conducted in Honiara in 1992, found that 31 per cent of households consumed fresh fish each day and that 82.4 per cent of meals containing animal protein were based on fish. The annual per capita consumption of fish was estimated to be 45.5 kg, comprising 36.7 per cent fresh fish, 31.0 per cent frozen fish and 32.3 percent canned fish (Crossland & Phihpson, 1993).
Marine resource profiles: Solomon Islands
Biodiversity Conservation
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Skewes, Timothy

Solomon Islands consists of many islands extending over 1,400 kilometers of ocean in the western equatorial Pacific between 5 and 13 degrees south and 155 and 158 degrees east. It has an estimated total land area of 29,000 square kilometers, a 12 mile territorial sea and approximately 1.3 million square kilometers of ocean within its 200 mile exclusive economic zone. The total coastline has been estimated to be 4,023 kilometers long. The islands have little or no continental shelf area but support some of the world's largest lagoons and extensive fringing and barrier coral reefs.

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