Jellyfish in Palau.

Oceania is geographically one of IUCN’s largest regional programmes, covering over 100 million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean. The region comprises Australia, New Zealand and the 22 Pacific Island countries and territories making up Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The total human population is estimated at approximately 35 million, over a third of who are resident in Australia.  Learn more

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Artesian windmill, Boulia, Western Queensland, WA, Australia

Small scale wind power: Impacts on nature and people

Are you planning to fund, build or manage a wind power project? Have you considered the environmental, social and economic issues this can raise? Are you prepared to manage these issues? …  

17 May 2012 | Fact sheet

2013 Pacific Conservation Conference expected to bring in hundreds

The 9th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas is anticipated to be the largest regional conservation forum - attracting more than 300 conservation practitioners working in the region. …  

15 May 2012 | Event

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