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(April 24, 2026) The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) and the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) in partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has successfully led and convened a National Action Plan (NAP) for Coral Reefs Management and Conservation Provincial Validation Workshop in Auki, Malaita Province. The event brought together representatives from the Malaita Provincial Government, community leaders, and key provincial stakehol...

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(December 07, 2025) Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) as the Solomon Islands National Technical Facilitator (NTF) for the Coral Reef Rescue (CRR) project has successfully extended its reach to Temotu Province through collaboration with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Greenergy Pacific, Ms. Sharon Inone. Temotu Provincial Government Consultation. Credit @ WCS_SI, CRR, 2025. The insightful visit has allowed WCS to build new connection with the Temotu Provincial Government (TPG), commu...

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(November 24, 2025) WIF workshop participants from the Munda LMMA. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently completed a two-day Women in Fisheries workshop with women from Kindu and Nusa Roviana communities of the Munda Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA). The workshop facilitated by WCS Solomon Islands’ Sabrina Pania (Project Coordinator) and Dr Joelle Albert (Marine Technical Advisor), focused on empowering women to better manage the marine resources they harvest. Dr. Albert confirmed that the w...

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(May 11, 2025) The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM), the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR), and key stakeholders including the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) successfully convened the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) National Coordinating Committee (NCC) meeting for the first-time in April, 2025. A significant outcome of the meeting was the confirmation and establishment of the Coral Reef Rescue (CRR) National Hub for cor...

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(June 09, 2022)   -   On this World Oceans Day, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is proud to release new footage from the surface and flanks of the volcano, showcasing the wealth of biodiversity there.

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(October 05, 2020) A team of scientists have discovered that a large area in the Indo-Pacific known as the “Coral Triangle” is surprisingly resistant to thermal stress from climate change, making it a sanctuary for corals amid the ongoing climate crisis. The findings, published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography, are a glimmer of hope amid an otherwise dismal outlook for the world’s coral reefs which are declining globally as ocean waters rapidly warm.The study, conducted by...

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(September 24, 2020) New findings uncovered by researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of Queensland (UQ) demonstrate that logging activity in Solomon Islands is associated with lower coral cover and structural complexity on adjacent reefs, as well as lower abundance of many types of fish commonly caught for food and sold at markets.The study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology focused on Kolombangara, an island located in Western Province, Solomon Islands, an...

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(June 29, 2020) MERMAID, an open-source tech platform for marine scientists, is for the first time launching an interactive map that provides an insider’s view of the ecosystem data collected from coral reefs by field scientists around the world.MERMAID (Marine Ecological Research Management AID) is a first of its kind free, online-offline platform that allows scientists anywhere in the world to collect, analyze, and share field-based coral reef surveys. Developed in partnership between the Wildlife Conse...

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(September 25, 2019) The following congratulatory statement was released by Dr. John Robinson, WCS’s Executive Vice President for Conservation and Science:“The entire Wildlife Conservation Society team extends congratulations to our colleague Dr. Stacy Jupiter for being named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. Stacy is wonderfully deserving of this award.“Stacy is a champion for the world’s ocean, using science to develop pragmatic solutions for wildlife, people, and coastal ecosystems. What makes Stac...

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(June 07, 2019) A new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology has found a possible solution to one of the biggest conservation and livelihood challenges in the marine realm. The study’s authors—researchers from the California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), Swansea University, the University of Rhode Island (URI) and other groups—have found that fishing grounds with areas that are closed to fisheries but are...

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