Hajime KAYANNE, Masashi CHIKAMORI, Hiroya YAMANO, Toru YAMAGUCHI, Hiromune YOKOKI and Hiroto SHIMAZAKI 2005
Padma Lal, Kalesoma Saloa and Falealili Uili 2006
IWP-Pacific Technical Report (International Waters Project) no. 36
McCubbin, S. G., T. Pearce, J. D. Ford, and B. Smit. 2017
A series of publication on the status of coral reefs of the world
Yoko Osawa, Kazuhiko Fujita, Yu Umezawa, Hajime Kayanne, Yoichi Ide, Tatsutoshi Nagaoka, Toshihiro Miyajima, Hiroya Yamano 2010
Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency 2019
Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility 2000
Garry Preston, Matelina Stuart and Sam Finikaso 2016
SPC Fisheries Newsletter #150 - May–August 2016
Faafetai Sagapolutele 2017
Pacific Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) Project
Samasoni Sauni and Lilian Fay Sauni 2005
SPC Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin #15 – April 2005
Tuna Fisheries Status and Management in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
Thaman 2016
Adelle Thomas, Patrick Pringle, Peter Pfleiderer and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner 2017
Initial Environmental Examination
Prepared by Tuvalu Electricity Corporation for the Asian Development Bank
Watling 1998
Funded by: SOUTH PACIFIC BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION PROGRAMME, SOUTH PACIFIC REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (SPREP), APIA,SAMOA
Environmental Consultants Fiji Ltd.
World Health Organization, 2015
This Pacific Islands Framework for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas2021-2025 is the principal regional strategy document for environmental conservation in the Pacific. Its purpose is to guide broad strategic guidance for nature conservation planning, prioritisation, and implementation in our region. It reflects the urgent need for transformative action in response to the multiple accelerating threats, both established and emerging, that are faced by nature and people in the Pacific.
"Comparison of the average hard coral cover between the three five-year periods comprising the last 15 years (2005-09, 2010-14, 2015-19, Tab. 9.3) indicated that there was a high degree of confidence (93%) in the long-term decline, despite the uncertainty in individual yearly estimates. Further, the vast majority (90%) of this decline occurred between 2010-14 and 2015-19, suggesting that the rate of decline in hard coral cover has accelerated during the last five years"
In the South-West Pacific region, 2020 was the second or third warmest year on record, depending on the data set. Near-surface temperatures over the land and ocean averaged across the region were about 0.37–0.44 °C above the 1981–2010 average.