A new World Bank funding of $18 million will enhance the Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency’s monitoring and reporting capacity on illegal fishing in the region.

A Cook Islands film-maker made a documentary on Rarotonga’s mountains after watching the Kānaka Maoli protest the construction of the $US1.4 billion telescope on top of a Hawaiian mountain three years ago.

Around the world 26 July is commemorated as the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem.

When an 11th hour appeal for more nuclear test compensation by Marshall Islands leaders fell flat in the United States Congress in mid-July.

A major newspaper in Solomon Islands received nearly US$140,000 in funding from the Chinese government.

The French President has told Vanuatu leaders he will provide financial assistance to the country and look into the dispute over two small islands between Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged New Caledonia to forge a common future after the most recent ‘no’ independence vote.

Ash fall from the erupting Mt Bagana in central Bougainville has collapsed a number of traditional houses.

A project has been set up to save a rare French Polynesian bird from extinction.

Vanuatu chiefs have called on its government to ask the visiting French President to acknowledge that the Matthew and Hunter islands belong to them and not to New Caledonia.

U.S. President Joe Biden will host a second summit with the leaders of Pacific island nations in September.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a defence cooperation pact signed with Papua New Guinea on Monday would expand the Pacific island nation’s capabilities and make it easier for the U.S. military to train with its forces.