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Secret Data, Tiny Islands and a Quest for Treasure on the …

Even with those partners — the Pacific islands of Nauru and Tonga, which have a combined population of 120,000 and are nowhere near the mining zone — the firm has maintained nearly complete ...

Droppings Led to U.S. Possession of Newly Protected Pacific Islands

A craze for natural fertilizer made from droppings spurred the U.S. to take possession of a group of remote Pacific islands in the 19th century, and now those islands are home to the world's ...

Nauru: An Island Country Destroyed by Phosphate Mining

Nauru is a small island country, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, with an area of only 21-square-kilometers. It is the smallest state in the South Pacific and third smallest state by area in the world. ... Mining also affected marine life surrounding the island as silt and phosphate runoff contaminated the waters. The site of secondary mining of ...

Mining in the Pacific | 11 | Principles and practices for …

This chapter gives an overview of past mining practices in the Pacific, drawing on notorious 'onshore examples' with poor regulation including in Papua New Guinea (gold and copper mining) and phosphate mining in Nauru and Banaba. ... regulatory systems across the region despite some advances by jurisdictions like Cook Islands, PNG, and Fiji ...

Can a Sustainable Mining Experiment in New …

Photos of previous mine dispute protest encampments line Mr. Vama's wall. ... The French brought in mine workers from Asia and other Pacific islands, shifting the ethnic balance. In less than 75 ...

Pacific island of Nauru sets two-year deadline for U.N. deep-sea mining

The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru has notified a U.N. body of plans to start deep-sea mining, giving the International Seabed Authority (ISA) two years to complete long-running talks on ...

Deep-sea mining legislation in Pacific Island countries: …

1. Introduction. To respond to the growing interest in deep-sea mining (DSM), laws on seabed minerals (SBM) in exclusive economic zones (EEZs) have been introduced recently in Tonga (2014), Tuvalu (2014), Kiribati (2017), and the Federated States of Micronesia (2018); and the Cook Islands (Revised 2019) [1].These laws are necessary …

In the race to mine the seabed, China takes a hard line

That's when the Pacific island nation of Nauru kicked off a contentious countdown by triggering a rule requiring regulations be enacted within two years. The ISA missed that deadline on July 9 ...

Pacific Islands remain divided on deep-sea mining as trial …

Pacific countries remain divided as a deep-sea mining company prepares to test a system to extract minerals and metals from the ocean floor.

(PDF) Mining, Social Change and Corporate Social Responsibility

PDF | On Dec 1, 2006, Glenn Banks published Mining, Social Change and Corporate Social Responsibility: Drawing lines in the Papua New Guinea mud | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

SEA FREIGHT TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

"Shipping Containers to the Pacific Islands for over 20 years" ... depending on the shipping line routing. CargoMaster provides on-forwarding services to almost anywhere in The Pacific. If needed, CargoMaster will organise customs clearance and door delivery of your consolidated cargo too. ... (and on flat racks) including, mining machinery ...

The Cook Islands (South Pacific) experience in governance …

The Cook Islands (CI) is a self-governing small island developing state in the South Pacific region. It comprises 15 separate islands or island groups spread over an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of around 2 million km 2 (Fig. 1) Cook Islands EEZ is situated between latitudes 6° and 25° South and Longitudes 155° and 168° West.The …

High-level regional political group on deep sea mining …

Thursday, 14th April 2022: The Pacific Parliamentarians' Alliance on Deep Sea Mining (PPADSM) has been officially launched as a high-level political voice that will advocate …

Mining in the Pacific: Past History, Present Practice, …

Those Pacific mining history studies there are make up in quality for this lack of quantity. The most important are Ion Idriess's and Edmond Demaitre's 1930s classics, ... 5 R. W. Robson, The Pacific Islands Year Book (Sydney 1944), 282. Quoted in …

Outgunned Pacific Island nations vow to fight deep-sea mining

A handful of postage-stamp nations in the South Pacific launch an uphill battle against the deep-sea mining of unattached, fist-sized rocks rich in rare earth metals. The stakes are potentially ...

Prohibiting Deep Seabed Mining in the Pacific Ocean: An …

The growing global movement to stop deep seabed mining comprises strong local movements of CSO activists in the Pacific Island region and elsewhere, global …

Dynamics of Logging in Solomon Islands: The Need for …

Worldwide, tropical forests are highly vulnerable to industrial exploitation. During the past century, tropical Asia-Pacific islands, ranging from Malaysia to the Solomon Islands and westward across the equatorial Pacific, have experienced severe forest loss and degradation, exacerbated by some of the worst-known land-use …

Pacific Islands Forum 2024: Deep Sea Mining, Australia in …

And for Pacific Island nations, the stakes couldn't be higher. The Pacific Ocean covers more than 60 million square kilometers, and its deep-sea ecosystems are among the most untouched and pristine on Earth. Many Pacific Island countries have unique marine environments that support diverse and irreplaceable biodiversity.

Seabed mining a disturbing new threat to the Pacific

My Pacific Island brothers and sisters are already fighting to ban deep sea mining, to draw a Pacific Blue Line against the latest threat exported from the West. From Vanuatu to Fiji, the Cook Islands to Tonga and Papua New Guinea, activists are sounding the alarm and I stand in solidarity with them.

Mining on the Resource-rich Island of Fiji's Viti Levu

Fiji's Viti Levu is rich in minerals and relatively underexplored, making the South Pacific island nation a top frontier mining jurisdiction. Fiji's prime location along the Pacific Ring of ...

The Pacific Island Countries

Pacific island states that are sources of labour migrants have economies that are based on agriculture and fisheries and, more recently, on tourism usually supported by remittances from international migrants. ... The Gold Ridge mine in Solomon Islands, 30 kms from Honiara, began operations in 1998 but subsequently closed twice, after the ...

Pacific Parliamentarians' Alliance on Deepsea …

A Call To Protect Our Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Parliamentarians' Alliance on Deep Sea Mining (PPADSM) is a collective of Pacific leaders who share the strong concern to protect the ocean in light of the rush by large …

11.4: The Pacific Islands (2 Days)

TEKS Regional Unit 11 Oceania: Chapter 11.4 The Pacific Islands. WG.1A Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes on the past and describe their impact on the present, including significant physical features and environmental conditions that influenced migration patterns and shaped the distribution …

After days at sea with the Cook Islands PM, here's what I …

When we flew to the Cook Islands to film Mining the Pacific Ocean, a 101 East investigation into deep-sea exploration and climate change, I had tempered expectations about an on-camera interview ...

Development of the Legal Framework for Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific

Abstract: Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are making a great effort to introduce legal infrastructure associated with deep sea mining in order to balance their obligations to protect the environment and further develop their economy. However, the extent and scale of this progress related to legal infrastructure vary country to country. To examine the …

'Blue Peril' reveals how deep-sea mining would …

A new film has revealed the scale and nature of the impacts that deep-sea mining would have on life in the Pacific Island region, from direct damage to seafloor ecosystems, to tailings waste and sediment …

Pacific Islands Forum 2024: Deep Sea Mining, …

How does Deep Sea Mining Affect Australia? Australia, as a close neighbour and significant player in the Pacific region, has a vested interest in the outcomes of the Pacific Islands Forum. With its …

Pacific Islands | Countries, Map, & Facts | Britannica

Pacific Islands, geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises three ethnogeographic groupings—Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia—but conventionally excludes Australia, the Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese archipelagoes, and the Ryukyu, Bonin, Volcano, and Kuril island arcs beyond Japan.

Climate Finance and Geostrategic Interests in the …

The Pacific Islands Region: While Pacific Island countries occupy a land mass of only 300,000 square miles, their total exclusive economic zone spans 7.7 million square miles of ocean.