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IUCN Oceania is seeking a National Country Coordinator for the Solomon Islands to join the Regional Implementation Team for the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) investment in the East Melanesian Islands hotspot.

Mr David Boseto, co-founder and co-director of Ecological Solutions Solomon Islands (ESSI), was one of 15 Biodiversity “Hotspot Heroes” to be honoured on September 4th 2016 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Recipients of CEPF funds in the East Melanesian Islands came together at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Honolulu to showcase conservation efforts that have been implemented since the CEPF Program began in the region in 2013.

The project involves IUCN facilitating meetings between the management of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), the Marae Moana of the Cook Islands, the natural park of the Coral Sea (New Caledonia), and the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument USA (PRIMNM) – four of the world’s…

“The GEF-funded Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project researched the ecological impacts of longline tuna fishing in relation to sea mounts. IUCN explored whether there are patterns in the amount and /or size of fish around seamounts and identifying possible spawning or aggregation…