How HIV cases soared in Fiji
| | LONDON, UK, 5 October 2025 (BBC) - Ten: that's the age of the youngest person with HIV that Sesenieli Naitala has ever met. When she first started Fiji's Survivor Advocacy Network in 2013, that young boy was yet to be born. Now he is one of thousands of Fijians to have contracted the bloodborne virus in recent years – many of them aged 19 or younger, and many of them through intravenous drug use. |
COP climate talks are 'heartbreak' for Pacific Islands
| | SYDNEY, Australia, 3 October 2025 (ABC) - For the Pacific Islands, where the threat of climate change is existential, COP has come to feel like an annual date with conflict and disappointment. They have grown frustrated with the level of ambition among high-emitting nations in curbing carbon emissions - including Australia's - and they blame the influence of powerful fossil fuel interests. Papua New Guinea's government even withdrew from the talks altogether last year, calling them "a total waste of time". |
Hong Kong urged to protect Sai Kung islands from overtourism
| | HONG KONG, 3 October 2025 (SCMP) - Greenpeace has called for the Hong Kong government to put in place conservation-driven measures to protect outlying islands in Sai Kung from ecological damage caused by overtourism. The green group raised the alarm on Friday after it found a large number of visitors trampling corals and digging up marine organisms in the city’s Unesco Global Geopark area. |
Cuba's tourism minister insists sector 'alive and kicking' amid crisis
| | LONDON, UK, 3 October 2025 (BBC) - When US President Barack Obama stepped off Air Force One onto Cuban soil in 2016, he was one of around four million visitors to the island that year. A record high at the time, Cuba's visitor numbers continued to grow until a high-water mark of almost five million people two years later. Since then, however, the fall in Cuban tourism has been precipitous. |
What sparked the Gen Z protests in Madagascar
| | LONDON, UK, 3 October 2025 (BBC) - Thousands of people in Madagascar have taken to the streets in different parts of the country for the past week in the largest wave of protests the Indian Ocean island nation has witnessed in more than 15 years. What began as anger over shortages of basic necessities has rapidly escalated into one of the most serious challenges facing President Andry Rajoelina, who has been in power, for the second time, since 2018. On Monday, in response, he sacked his government but that did not placate the protesters. |
Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction
| | MANILA, Philippines, 2 October 2025 (Mongabay) - A new study warns that 15-23% of the Philippines’ 1,294 terrestrial vertebrates face extinction, with amphibians and mammals at highest risk. Endemic species are most vulnerable, yet many lesser-known taxa like flying foxes, Cebu flowerpeckers and island frogs receive little research or funding compared to charismatic species such as the Philippine eagle and tamaraw dwarf buffalo. |
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SIDS |
 | | 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States 27-30 May 2024, Antigua and Barbuda |
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NAF |
| | North Atlantic Forum bi-annual international conference 17-21 June, 2024, Connemara, Ireland, |
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IWRA |
| | 1st Islands Water Congress 4-6 Sept, 2024, Torshavn, Faroe Islands |
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ANATOMY OF ISLANDS |
| | 12th Anatomy of Islands symposium 26-28 Sept, 2024, Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia |
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CIS |
| | Critical Island Studies 4th international conference 3-4 Oct, 2024, Manila, Philippines |
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CBD |
| | COP16 21 Oct-1 Nov, 2024, Cali, Colombia |
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UNFCCC |
| | COP29 11-22 November, 2024, Baku, Azerbaijan |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS II conference, 20-23 January 2025, Nuuk, Greenland |
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JICAS |
| | Islands And Island Studies conference 3-7 June, 2025, Jersey, Channel Islands |
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UNITED NATIONS |
| | UN Ocean Conference 9-13 June, 2025, Nice, France |
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UPEI |
| | 3rd international conference on SIS and SNIJs 16-20 June, 2025, Charlottetown, PEI |
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ISISA |
| | 20th Islands of the World Conference 7-11 July 2026, Shinan County, Jeollanam-do, South Korea |
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