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The Tongan Whistler, the endemic Hengahenga and other native bird species have increased in population on Mt Talau in Vava’u over the past year due to projects implemented to battle invasive species including rats.

Ten Pacific leaders are on the official batting order to address the world when the final rounds of negotiations for a new agreement on climate change opens in Paris today. They are from Kiribati, Marshall islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Tuvalu, Fiji, Nauru, Palau, Cook Islands, Samoa and Papua New Guinea.

Kosi Latu is the new Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and will take up new role in January 2016.

Tonga is one of 14 Pacific Island countries that is expected to benefit from a new project aimed to provide nationally tailored information on seasonal climate prediction and improve climate services. The three year project was launched in Nuku'alofa this week.

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has been accredited to the Green Climate Fund as a Regional Implementing Entity, one of the first to be approved.

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) is calling on Peoples from all Pacific Islands to report information from tagged turtles to their National Environment or Fisheries Department.

Lui Bell (left), Marine Species Officer with SPREP and his working team from Tuvalu. Lui Bell, the Marine Species Officer with SPREP has returned from Tuvalu where he began the initial process of developing a marine turtle conservation (monitoring) programme for the small island nation. This falls in line with SPREP's regional Marine Turtle Action Plan 2003-07.