Canoe in Beqa, Fiji.

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, of whom nearly two thirds are resident in Australia.  Learn more

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Representatives of the  BIOPAMA partners at the Protected Planet Pavilion: Andreas Drews (GiZ), Aimé Nianogo (IUCN PACO), Ratu Aisea Katonivere (Fiji), Hon. Jesca Eriyo (East African Community Secretariat), Gregoire Dubois (JRC), José Courrau (IUCN ORMA)

IUCN pays tribute to a great conservation leader

It is with deep sadness that we note the sudden and untimely passing of Ratu Aisea Katonivere, a paramount chief and valued champion of the environment and conservation movement for his people, the vanua Caumatalevu, in the province of Macuata, Fiji and the Pacific region. …  

21 Apr 2013 | Media statement
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Rock Islands - Palau

Meeting on Islands challenges at the European Parliament to take place on May 7th, 2013

Islands – key actors: What kind of partnership at the EU level?

Meeting jointly hosted by the European Parliament intergroup on Biodiversity and Climate change and prepared by the IUCN on EU Overseas Programme, the  Marine and Polar Programme (GMPP) in close collaboration with the Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) 

18 Apr 2013 | News story

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