Phoenix Island Protected Area - Kiribati
• A new Marine Protected Area (MPA) announced at COP8 to the Convention on Biodiversity in March 2006 by Martin Puta Tofinga, Minister of Environment, Lands, and Agricultural Development of the Republic of Kiribati.
• Is now the third largest MPA in the world.
• Includes 8 atolls, 2 reef systems, and deep water habitat including seamounts.
• Made possible with help from Conservation International, The GEF, and The New England Aquarium.

[Secretariat of the] Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SREP)
• An inter-governmental organization comprising 21 Pacific Island Countries and Territories and four developed countries members.
• Allows regional level effort towards sustainable use of natural resources and environmental protection.

Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)
• Consists of 17 member governments working to develop sound management practices with the goal of sustainable use and conservation of tuna resources.

Forum Fisheries Agency

Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project
• A project funded by the Global Environment Facility and executed by the FFA, the Pacific Community Oceanic Fisheries Programme (SPC), and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) that will provide Pacific Island States with the resources to better understand transboundary issues and to build multi-state relationships and collective conservation and management practices with regards to their shared marine resources.

Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management

WWF Marine Resource Management and Conservation in Western Solomon Islands Project
• Includes several projects that are aimed at helping establish marine protected areas and assisting the government and local communities in enforcement and monitoring of those areas.

WWF South Pacific News

TRAFFIC Oceania
• TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, works to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature.
• TRAFFIC Oceania has examined the exploitation of marine invertebrates such as Green snail, trochus, pearl oyster, giant clam, and beche de mer in the South Pacific and plans to continue working on this issue in the future.

TRAFFIC