Tag: climate change
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Coral Bleaching Awareness Month
Coral bleaching affects tropical coral reef habitats with often devastating and long term impacts for marine ecosystems. The news worldwide is grim with the launch of the Status and Trends of Coral Reefs and the UNEP announcement for crossing the 1.5C! When a coral is stressed the symbiotic algae known as zooxanthellae is released/ejected and…
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Hope is resilience….
Fiji and Tonga are monitoring and observing a bleaching event. For Vava’u it started in summer of 2024 and has become increasingly extensive in 2026. Corals bleach because they are under stress, these current stresses are attributed to the increased and sustained water temperatures. For the last 6 weeks, it has remained at 34C/93.2F, above…
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VEPA’s 2024 Achievements in Biodiversity and Conservation
2024 flew by with a series of excitement and challenges like the ebb and flow of tides providing the pathway of knowing that there is still a lot of work to be done. 2025 being a critical year for Tonga will see focus to increase and strengthen advocacy and outreach on a range of environmental…
