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Pacific Tourism Surge: Nearing Pre-COVID Highs with Record Growth in 2023 & Strong 2024 Momentum
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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March 4, 2025
The Pacific tourism industry is experiencing a robust recovery, with the 2023 Annual Visitor Arrival Report revealing record-breaking growth and a promising trajectory heading into 2024. Visitor arrivals surged by 89% compared to 2022, totalling...
England v India: Brilliant Bumrah makes mark in first Test as Brook falls one run short of century
The National News
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India will head into Day 4 of the first Test against England with a narrow advantage after an entertaining battle at Headingley on Sunday. Despite losing overnight centurion Ollie Pope early on in proceedings and then seeing Harry Brook fall one...
U.N. Ocean Conference Wants to Protect 30% of World’s Oceans by 2030
Al-Fanar Media
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June 17, 2025
The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) ended in Nice, France, last week with delegates from more than 170 countries saying their goal was to protect 30 percent of the world’s oceans by 2030. The goal is part of a political declaration...
Canadian Government Issues Its Latest Health Warning To This Country
The Travel
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April 10, 2025
Credit to the government of Canada for actively updating travel advisories around the world on a daily basis. We recently saw the Canadian government reaffirm its "Avoid All Travel" warning to Haiti. The country is still in a state of emergency....
At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas
Inside Climate News
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June 18, 2025
NICE, France—Resolute about their efforts to protect 30 percent of the Earth’s global ocean by 2030, world leaders agreed to sweeping but nonbinding commitments at last week’s United Nations Ocean Conference to designate vast stretches of their...
Progress and frustration mark the UN’s third Ocean Conference
Grist Magazine
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June 16, 2025
Delegates from around the world convened in Nice, France, last week to discuss a range of ocean priorities, including the implementation of a recently finalized “high seas treaty” to protect the two-thirds of the oceans that lie outside countries’...
Captain Cook’s Ship ‘Endeavour’ Finally Located After 250 Years Sunken off Coast of Rhode Island
Good News Network
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June 21, 2025
Endeavor by Samuel Atkins (1760-1810) at the National Library of Australia, public domain There’s an old saying in science that substantial claims require substantial evidence, and a team of maritime archaeologists believe they have enough to...
Decoding PNG leader Marape’s talks with French President Macron
Asia Pacific Report
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June 17, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The recent series of high-level agreements between Papua New Guinea and France marks a significant development in PNG’s geopolitical relationships, driven by what appears to be a convergence...
Australian Task Force Targets Cocaine Shipments in Pacific Islands
The Maritime Executive
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Drug smugglers are constantly on the lookout for new ways to get narcotics past customs agents, and containerized freight is an area of constant innovation for organized crime. The invention of new smuggling routes, concealment methods and...
Decoding PNG leader Marape's discussions with President Macron
RNZ
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June 16, 2025
PNG Prime Minister James Marape, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo: Facebook / Department of Prime Minister & NEC Analysis - The recent series of high-level agreements between Papua New Guinea and France marks a significant...
‘I saw the flash’: How US nuclear tests changed life on this Pacific idyll forever
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 20, 2025
McDiarmid and Haazen returned to Mejatto a year after the 1985 evacuation, and stayed for three months. When we land this time, there is a joyful reunion between the pair and several locals, including “aunties” now in their 40s and 50s who were...
Seven things we learned at the UN Ocean Conference (and one we didn’t)
The Third Pole
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June 18, 2025
The French port of Nice was overrun last week with politicians and diplomats sweltering in suits, cooler representatives from NGOs and local communities, and a staggering number of police. More heads of state, governments and members of civil...
What was decided at the UN Oceans Conference? | Explained
The Hindu
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June 19, 2025
The logo of the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC). | Photo Credit: REUTERS The story so far: The United Nations Oceans Conference (UNOC) concluded last week in France, with 56 of the necessary 60 countries ratifying the Biodiversity...
Aranui Cruises expands fleet with new ship
Travel Weekly
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April 3, 2025
Aranui Cruises has announced the addition of a second ship to its fleet with the construction of a new passenger-freighter vessel underway at Huanghai Shipbuilding facility in Shandong, China. The 116m-long Aranoa cruises the French Polynesia from...
Global Ocean Summit in Nice ends with a raft of pledges for marine protection
Savannah Herald - Georgia
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June 18, 2025
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) pushed for stronger language on “loss and damage.”PHOTO/ Pablo_Marx, Flickr By PATRICK MAYOYO and Agencies newshub@eyewitness.africa The port of Nice echoed with the sound of foghorns on Friday – a brassy...
Reframing the French Indo-Pacific: Les TAAF, a ‘Fictional Collectivity’ of Real Strategic Interests
The Diplomat
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June 13, 2025
As Emmanuel Macron wrapped up his visits to Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore – where he delivered the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue at the end of May – the French president reaffirmed the Indo-Pacific’s strategic importance for both...
Man Learned To Accept A Pigeon Living On His Head
The Travel
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March 29, 2025
When animals are in danger, be they domestic or species on the brink of extinction, they often look for someone who will give them kindness and help them during their time of need. Regardless of the animal, most people are willing to help, even to...
Paris Air Show live: Airbus deals valued at $20.9 billion on final day of trade
AeroTime News
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June 19, 2025
As the Paris Air Show enters its final day of trade before the event transforms into a more public orientated affair, it has been reported that Airbus has notched up an estimated $20.9 billion worth of contracts. According to Reuters, Airbus...
Tuvalu calls for sea level rise treaty at UN Oceans Conference
RNZ
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June 11, 2025
Photo: LUDOVIC MARIN Tuvalu prime minister Feleti Teo has called for an international treaty on sea level rise at the UN Oceans Conference in France. Speaking to delegates in Nice, Teo said the ocean is critical to his country's economy, culture...
'We show up': Pacific leaders apply pressure at oceans summit
Barron News Shield - Wisconsin
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Nowhere is humanity's exploitation of the oceans more starkly illustrated than the Pacific Ocean, where small island nations are fighting to outlast a crisis not of their making. The islands are besieged by rising seas and worsening storms, their...