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A direct internet link to easily access more ODS related data for Tuvalu on the UNEP Ozone Secretariat website
Direct link to species occurrences in Tuvalu on the GBIF records
Information on the link are related to;
1. Management System in place for major fisheries
2. Existing list of Tuvalu Fisheries legislation
3. Structure of National and sub-national fisheries institutions
According to the U.N. FAO, 33.3% or about 1,000 ha of Tuvalu is forested. Tuvalu's forests contain - million metric tons of carbon in living forest biomass.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map & spatial database of the whole world. This dataset is an extract of OpenStreetMap data for French Polynesia in a GIS-friendly format.
The OSM data has been split into separate layers based on themes (buildings, roads, points of interest, etc), and it comes bundled with a QGIS project and styles, to help you get started with using the data in your maps. This OSM product will be updated weekly.
This dataset provides a direct internet link to easily access marine life information and data recorded for Tuvalu on the Sea Life Base portal. Sea Life Base is a global online database of information about marine life. It aims to provide key information on the taxonomy, distribution and ecology of all marine species in the world apart from finfish.
This datase provides a direct internet link to access fish species information such as (names, distribution, taxonomy, habitats, behavior, genetic etc) for Tuvalu
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web.
A direct internet link to access information related to bird species of Tuvalu recorded on the BirdLife International Online portal
Data submitted to the UN Ozone Secretariat highlighting the trend of ODS consumption (calculated as Production (if any) + imports - exports) in Tuvalu. Ozone Depleting Substances calculated here are HCFCs and Methal Bromide.
'Story Maps' allows an individual to combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content to make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell a story. An insight into Tuvalu's environmental issues is featuring on the story map website with images and ArcGIS contents.
Tuvalu became the 189th member of the United Nations on September 5, 2000. This dataset provides a direct internet link to access all the highlight information pertaining to Tuvalu's participation in the UN
Click to access a story on Tuvalu's Environmental issues.
A timeline of events, highlighting Tuvalu's participation in the UN since it became a member,
The web-page has navigation tools for the user to efficiently explore and discover different marine life information for Tuvalu
The online database has a navigation tool to efficiently explore fish information for Tuvalu.
video presented by a representative of Tuvalu explaining briefly the importance of the Inform Project