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Earthjustice attorney David Henkin (left) and Rudy Bartley, a member of the nonprofit groups Faasao Amerika Samoa and Puipui Measina a Amerika Samoa

Fisheries

American Samoa environmental group sues US govt over deep sea mining plans

October 1, 2026

The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji

Fisheries

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

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Fisheries

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

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

Fisheries

Trump’s fishing decision threatens Pacific communities, NGO warns

The Gambier Islands

Fisheries

French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

US Vice-President Kamala Harris

Fisheries

Fiji police evict two Chinese defence attaches amid Pacific Forum tensions

Pacific Media Watch -

July 13, 2022

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

Fisheries

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

July 27, 2026

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...

January 6, 2026

Fisheries

Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

January 28, 2026

An Odysseus 6K remotely operated vehicle

Fisheries

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

July 30, 2024

RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

Fisheries

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

October 19, 2025

PNG Jackson Kiakari

Fisheries

Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise...

April 3, 2021

Domestic airline Air Calédonie’s ATR 72-600 to fly biweekly to Port Vila from October 2024

Fisheries

New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets

September 11, 2024

Global action to protect oceans from climate change

Fisheries

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

October 23, 2024

Fisheries

American Samoa tuna cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Tokelau

Mackenzie Smith -

May 29, 2017

Professor Vijay Naidu

Fisheries

Fiji academic calls for more action to reverse Suva foreshore pollution

September 25, 2020

The CIVICUS Monitor report

Fisheries

Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report

November 10, 2021

Fisheries

US, Pacific countries resolve treaty deadlock – fleet fishing again

March 8, 2016

Fisheries

Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing

March 7, 2016

Fisheries

Tuna fishing deal dispute keeps US boats out of Pacific waters

January 18, 2016

Fisheries

Landmark report into illegal fishing will boost control efforts in Pacific

March 22, 2016

Fisheries

US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017

January 21, 2016

Fisheries

Rainbow Warrior takes on fresh eco mission to Papua, Indonesia

March 13, 2018

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

Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

Fisheries

Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

April 19, 2025

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

Arrested Chinese ships

Fisheries

Michael Field: Murky background to Vanuatu’s Chinese fishing boat arrests

January 27, 2021

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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

Sacha Roytman, chief executive of Combat Antisemitism Movement

Asia Report

Israelis mislead Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism

I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide

Commentary

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

As a second-tier PIF partner, Israel will support Pacific development priorities in areas such as water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation

Decolonisation

‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s...

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

Decolonisation

‘Serious questions to answer’ – Labour slams Luxon over Israel’s Pacific...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka

Commentary

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...

I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide

Commentary

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

Democracy

Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

Analysis

The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

MOST COMMENTS

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 Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka

Commentary

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...

I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide

Commentary

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

Analysis

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"

Decolonisation

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...