During the final field visit of the REPICORE team, photographer Tom Vierus accompanied us to create this short documentary film on the project. Have a look to learn more about the team, our work and the feedback trip on which we reported key findings back to local communities and other …
On Monday, 10 September 2018, Akuila Cakacaka successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Livelihood Vulnerability of Coastal Communities in Fiji and Solomon Islands to Changes in Reef Resource Availability and Climate Change”. Congratulations Akuila!!
During the recent feedback trip of the REPICORE team, we were accompanied by photographer Tom Vierus, who was documenting our travels and meetings. Tom will use his beautiful imagery and video clips to produce a short documentary on our efforts to feed back project outcomes to stakeholders in the three …
After several months of the team sitting in Germany analysing data and writing up our scientific publications and theses, it was finally time to bring back our findings to various stakeholders in the Pacific region where the work was conducted. This trip would comprise a range of different meetings, including …
By Natalie Prinz. After having the opportunity to present at the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference on the island of Tahiti early in October, thanks to a grant by the CRIOBE, I could expand my stay in the South Pacific to travel another three hours westwards, back to the Cook Islands. The …
From 2-6 October, members of the REPICORE team had the opportunity to present their work at the 10th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, which was organized this year in Papeete/Tahiti, the capital of French Polynesia, by the French CRIOBE. The conference, the largest of its kind, brought together nearly 500 participants from …
Over the past month Janne attended three conferences and seminars and presented findings from her research at each of them. From 5-7 July the MARE conference ‘People & the Sea IX: Dealing with Maritime Mobilities’ took place at the University of Amsterdam (NL). Organized by the Centre for Maritime Research …
Compliance is key to successful resource management. But what influences compliance behavior with marine resource management in fishing communities in the South Pacific? The social, political and economic contexts are decisive. Our study reveals multiple drivers for non-compliance related to perceptions of limited legitimacy of rules and rule-makers, market …
By Natalie Prinz. Even though the southern Cook Islands were spared from severe coral bleaching in the recent large-scale global bleaching event, the El Niño in 2015/16, we experienced bleaching this year in the Aitutaki Lagoon. In the Aitutaki Lagoon the first bleached corals have been observed as early …
By Natalie Prinz. After a sudden occurrence of dead reef fish in the Aitutaki Lagoon, reports of dead fish sightings were summarised and correlated to tide data, rain data and water quality measurements. There was no obvious cause to the death of the fish. Due to the lack of …
