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(Credit: Umair Abbasi/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

26 October 2018

Fortnightly links: Ghandi’s ongoing relevance, Pakistan’s ten billion tree tsunami, humanitarian journalism, and more

by Sachini Muller and Terence Wood

In recent years, Papua New Guinea has become the world’s biggest exporter of tropical logs. Nearly all of them are sold to China (Credit: Global Witness, 2016)

15 October 2018

Is the clock finally ticking for PNG’s illegal loggers?

by Lela Stanley

Adult female coconut rhinoceros beetle (Credit: Bob Macfarlane)

15 October 2018

Coconut rhinoceros beetle: a huge threat in Solomon Islands and the Pacific

by Luke Kiddle, Andrew Piper and Bob Macfarlane

The Fiji team after winning the opening round of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in 2015 (Photo credit: World Rugby)

5 September 2018

Why we need to change, to help others change

by Paul Bird

An aerial view of Chulalongkorn University Centennial Park in Bangkok at dusk (Credit: Landprocess)

3 August 2018

Fortnightly links: the ‘Peace Ark’, PNG’s malnutrition crisis, the park designed to flood, and more

by Sachini Muller and Terence Wood

Nan Madol, an archeaological site in the Federated States of Micronesia (Credit: George Grace)

1 August 2018

Pacific World Heritage sites: significant under-representation

by Luke Kiddle

4 June 2018

Challenging the education paradigm

by Jennifer Star

A fair deal on bunkers at COP17 (Oxfam International/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

23 April 2018

EBRD/IMO cooperation: a glimmer of light in the darkness

by Bob McMullan

Photo from exhibition opening 'The United Nations in Germany under the banner of Agenda2030' in Germany (Stand Up Campaign/Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0)

16 March 2018

Fortnightly links: ghost schools, SDGs, the need for external accountability, and more

by Sachini Muller and Terence Wood

Fishing boats, Kiribati (Brooke Campbell/Flickr CC by NC-ND-2.0)

12 October 2017

The Pacific’s independent small island states: time running out?

by James Batley and Meg Keen

Giant African Snails consuming banana (Dean Stronge)

22 August 2017

Giant African Snails: devastating gardens and livelihoods in Solomon Islands

by Luke Kiddle, Dean Stronge and Michael Pennay

East Rennell (photo: Luke Kiddle)

25 July 2017

Rennell: an island of two halves

by Luke Kiddle

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