Cook Islands Marae Moana

Building on work in 2014, in 2015, the Office of the Prime Minister of Cook Islands implemented a Grant Agreement, signed with IUCN, to achieve two further project outputs: a national stocktake of marine biodiversity and physical oceanography data as a baseline for associated marine spatial planning (implemented by the National Environment Services), and strengthening of existing traditional MPAs (raui) as specific entities under a Park zoning concept (by the Are Ariki and Koutu Nui).