Java fishers struggle with seine net ban
| | PANTURA, Indonesia, 26 September 2022 (Mongabay) - More than 10,000 brightly painted trawlers regularly come and go from the rowdy fishing ports along this 1,000-kilometer-long northern coastline of Java, the world’s most populous island. Many of them are going nowhere fast. Fishers are struggling to adapt to a ban on the seine net, with many boats confined to port after the government ceased issuing new permits to seine net fishers. |
Aran Islands traditions inspire the knit wits of high fashion
| | LONDON, UK, 25 September 2022 (FT) - Turning the heating down in favour of a woolly jumper has become a fashion statement, with several designers at London Fashion Week drawing inspiration from Aran-style knitting and other traditional styles from the islands off Galway. |
Japan island depopulation: lessons for Scotland
| | GLASGOW, UK, 25 September 2022 (National) - This research report - commissioned from a team based at Scotland's Rural College - explores policy approaches to depopulation on Japan's islands, and proposes a series of recommendations to the Scottish Government which may help inform the development of future island depopulation. |
Can tourism and the environment coexist on Thai island?
| | NEW YORK, US, 25 September 2022 (NYT) - Travel to Southeast Asia is picking up again and Koh Tao, an island known for snorkeling and diving, part of a popular circuit, wants tourists back. But can development and nature stay in balance? |
Australian denies threatening to sell Conflict Islands to China
| | LONDON, UK, 25 September 2022 (Guardian) - The owner of 21 tropical islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea says he never threatened to sell them to China and his main aim is to save the turtles that nest there. Ian Gowrie-Smith, an Australian businessman and investor, bought the Conflict Islands, which lie less than 1,000km from the Australian coast, almost two decades ago. |
Houses washed into sea as storm batters Canada
| | LONDON, UK, 25 September 2022 (BBC) - Power lines have been downed and houses washed into the sea after Storm Fiona battered Canada's coastline. In Port aux Basques, with a population of 4,067 on the southwest tip of Newfoundland, intense flooding saw some homes and office buildings washed out to sea. |
Scotland's defenders of the seas
| | LONDON, UK, 24 September 2022 (Guardian) - Scotland’s inshore waters are in trouble but an unofficial network of fishers, divers and scientists are banding together to stop illegal fishing and curb coastal destruction. |
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ISISA |
 | | Islands of the World XVII conference 14-18 June, 2021, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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COP 26 |
| | UN Climate Change Conference 1-12 Nov, 2021, Glasgow, UK |
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PALAU |
| | Our Ocean Conference 13-14 April, 2022, Palau |
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ISLAND INNOVATION |
| | Island Finance Forum 25-29 April, 2022 |
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EU ISLANDS SECRETARIAT |
| | Clean Energy for EU Islands Forum 17-18 May, 2022, Rhodes, Greece |
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UNEP |
| | Stockholm+50 international environmental meeting 2-3 June, 2022, Stockholm, Sweden |
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XVIII conference 13-17 June, 2022, Zadar, Croatia |
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SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference "Creativity, Ingenuity, and Practice" 22-25 June, 2022, Shetland, UK |
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UNITED NATIONS |
| | UN Ocean Conference 27 June-1 July, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal |
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CBD |
| | UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) 7-19 Dec, 2022, Montreal, Canada |
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IMPAC |
| | 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress 3-9 Feb, 2023, Vancouver, Canada |
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IGU |
| | Islands in Relations: Conflicts, Sustainability and Peace thematic conference 4-6 April 2023, Osaka, Japan |
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FESTPAC |
| | 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture 6-16 June, 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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