Category: Biodiversity Conservation
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Livelihood surveys on gleaning and climate change
Gleaning is the collection of marine invertebrates within the intertidal mudflats for subsistence and small domestic markets. Gleaning is conducted mainly by women in Tonga, providing not just food source but economic support, social engagement and recreation. Women rarely are alone in the gleaning areas and often share and trade species as they glean. These…
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Biodiversity is not just species lists……..
The Convention on Biological diversity (CBD) defines biodiversity as “the variability among living organisms from all sources including inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this incudes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems” cbd.int/convention/articles/?a=cbd-02 Biodiversity includes what we can see – big species,…
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Thorn in our Side….
Well actually the thorns mostly hit our fingers and for many of us the memories of the week stay in the tingling tips of our fingers. What were we up to? Removing those nasty, spine heavy starfish called Crown of Thorns (COTS), (Acanthaster planci) or locally known as ‘Alamea. Did you know that COTS can…
Vava'u Environmental Protection Association (VEPA) 