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 Department of Environment, Tuvalu

Perceived threats can be summarised as arising from deleterious human actions and negative attitudes to the environment, leading to inappropriate behaviour, such as littering, over-fishing and hunting, using fishing nets and modern fishing method, the use of guns and the introduction of pests; the use of inappropriate technologies, such as solid and liquid waste water disposal systems; uncontrolled use of resources and control of livestock; increasing consumption patterns, arising from increases in human populations, demands and changing lifestyles; institutional weaknesses; ignorance and l

 Department of Environment, Tuvalu

Presenting the estimated areas of different land use/land cover types present in Tuvalu. This data was presented in both the 4th and 5th national reports to the CBD.

 Department of Environment, Tuvalu,  Tuvalu Fisheries

This data presents the value and volume of estimated fisheries catches and aquaculture harvest in the year 2014. It was presented in the 5th National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

 Department of Environment, Tuvalu,  Tuvalu Fisheries

Data extracted from the 'Fisheries in the PICs' report, 2016. From the table, it can be seen that, in 2014, foreign-based offshore fishing in the Tuvalu zone produced 96,898 mt of fish, with an in-zone value of US$132 million (A$161 million).

 Department of Environment, Tuvalu,  Tuvalu Fisheries

Studies of the benefits to Pacific Island countries and territories from fisheries (“Benefish” studies) have been carried out in the past. Gillett and Lightfoot (2001) focused on the year 1999, Gillett (2009) focused on 2007, and the present study focuses on 2014.

The fishery production levels for Tuvalu from those three studies are presented in this data.

CVS format of the excel sheet.

Tuvalu is a member of the Montreal Protocol Pacific Island Countries Network, which was established in 2008 to support compliance with the Montreal Protocol, in recognition of these countries’ unique social, economic and environmental characteristics. By 2016 these countries had achieved an 85% reduction in HCFC consumption since 2009, well ahead of their HCFC phase-out obligations.

 Department of Environment, Tuvalu,  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Between 2000 and 2010, Tuvalu’s use of HCFCs increased slightly, due to the increased use of HCFC-22 in air conditioning and refrigeration equipment (Government of Tuvalu 2010). Since 2013, an annual quota system has been implemented to regulate the import of HCFCs and ensure a complete phase-out by 2030

 

Reference : Tuvalu State of Environment Report 2022

 Department of Environment, Tuvalu

Publicly available data for Tuvalu from the world database on protected areas. This data needs to be reviewed and updated.

Interviews conducted on commercial premises where waste was also collected.
• Date: date of the interview
• Premises_ID: unique premises identifier
• Premises_Type: type of premises
• additional_comments_photos/extra_comments: miscellaneous comments
• country: country of audits
• Who_collects_the_rubbish
• Collection_period: how often waste is collected
• Collection_rating: satisfaction with collection service, 1-5 scale
• Waste_disposal_general: how general waste is disposed of

Household interviews conducted at houses where waste was collected.

Big file containing high level audit data, detailed sort of drink containers and interview data.

CSV table of protected areas for Tuvalu with the WDPA.

Each value represents the number of dumping events observed on fishing vessels during the period 2003-2015

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Bio-ORACLE is a set of GIS rasters providing geophysical, biotic and environmental data for surface and benthic marine realms. The data are available for global-scale applications at a spatial resolution of 5 arcmin (approximately 9.2 km at the equator).

Linking biodiversity occurrence data to the physical and biotic environment provides a framework to formulate hypotheses about the ecological processes governing spatial and temporal patterns in biodiversity, which can be useful for marine ecosystem management and conservation.

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