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The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji

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Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco threat

August 26, 2026

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

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Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

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‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage compensation

Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right

Fisheries

Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact

The Gambier Islands

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French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

Fisheries

Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

January 28, 2026

Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

Fisheries

Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

April 19, 2025

An educational in-depth view of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monumen

Fisheries

Trump’s fishing decision threatens Pacific communities, NGO warns

June 15, 2026

The CIVICUS Monitor report

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Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report

November 10, 2021

Nalati Ragolea (standing) with other Malake Villagers on their way to cast their vote at the Island

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Fiji elections: Voting villagers say they ‘want a government that can...

December 8, 2022

An Odysseus 6K remotely operated vehicle

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Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit

July 30, 2024

A Te Pāti Māori member's bill to ban deep seabed mining has failed to gain traction

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‘This industry will trash our moana’ warning but bid to ban...

May 11, 2023

US Vice-President Kamala Harris

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Fiji police evict two Chinese defence attaches amid Pacific Forum tensions

Pacific Media Watch -

July 13, 2022

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Researchers explore Pacific Ocean’s hidden deep ‘secrets’

April 26, 2016

Fisheries

Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing

March 7, 2016

Greenpeace activists, along with representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui, disrupted the annual general meeting of Manuka Resources

Fisheries

Norway halts seabed mining, putting more pressure on NZ to do...

December 3, 2024

New Zealand's planned fisheries laws changes "spell disaster for the already struggling ocean around us"

Fisheries

Greenpeace condemns NZ’s ‘dodgy reforms’ plan weakening ocean protection

August 7, 2025

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

Fisheries

Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

August 23, 2023

Fisheries

Tuna fishing deal dispute keeps US boats out of Pacific waters

January 18, 2016

Fisheries

US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017

January 21, 2016

Fisheries

Fiji’s climate change patterns hit pristine coral reefs hard

Anuja Nadkarni -

April 19, 2016

Global action to protect oceans from climate change

Fisheries

Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight...

October 23, 2024

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

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China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

Fisheries

Push to ban transhipments in ‘out of control’ Pacific tuna fishery

Michael Neilson -

September 25, 2015

The Rainbow Warrior III in action against industrial longlining fishing in the South Pacific

Fisheries

Greenpeace activists aboard Rainbow Warrior disrupt Pacific industrial fishing operation

June 12, 2025

Fisheries

Indigenous Pacific knowledge to help save the ocean

August 9, 2019

Tuvalu from the air

Fisheries

World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact

January 29, 2024

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Protesters march down Auckland's Queen St

Climate

Greenpeace protests Conservation Amendment Bill in downtown Auckland

Civil Society

Gallery: ‘Save our land – sell Luxon instead’ message at NZ...

"Never again, never forget" says the slogan for Martial Law Day

Asia Report

Melissa Cruz: The power of collective memory on martial law –...

Indonesia's President Prabowo speaking dressed in a keffiyeh

Asia Report

Prabowo’s tears and cries of ‘Free Palestine’ are not enough

EDITOR'S PICKS

The Invercargill City Council

Decolonisation

Invercargill Council becomes seventh NZ local body to ban illegal Israeli...

Fiji's Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara

Australia

Fijian chief calls for scrutiny of Fiji-Australia security treaties

Indonesia's President Prabowo speaking dressed in a keffiyeh

Asia Report

Prabowo’s tears and cries of ‘Free Palestine’ are not enough

"Never again, never forget" says the slogan for Martial Law Day

Asia Report

Melissa Cruz: The power of collective memory on martial law –...

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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Fiji's Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara

Australia

Fijian chief calls for scrutiny of Fiji-Australia security treaties

"Never again, never forget" says the slogan for Martial Law Day

Asia Report

Melissa Cruz: The power of collective memory on martial law –...

For as long as states have made war, they have assassinated, disappeared, tortured and executed

Analysis

Gaza genocide: We made machines that think – then corrupted them...

Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham and co-director Rachel Szor receiving the Venice Special Jury Prize for their critical Gaza war film

Analysis

The controversial documentary NAZA: 10 reasons to defend this whistleblower war...