Plastic pollution blights Indonesia's Anambas Islands
| | KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, 19 June 2026 (SCMP) - Ghost nets and plastic pollution plague Indonesia's Anambas Islands, harming marine life and exposing the gap between regional pledges and enforcement. This environmental crisis is further worsened by rapidly surging growth-driven consumption, campaigners say. |
How shrimp farms are destroying Ecuador's mangroves
| | LONDON, UK, 19 June 2026 (Guardian) - At low tide, Johana Carolina Cruz Potes steps into the mudflats around Isla Costa Rica, in Ecuador's Jambelí Archipelago. Holding a bucket and a short metal hook, she probes the tangled roots of a mangrove patch, searching for concha negra, black-shelled cockles, buried beneath the sludge. But earning a living from shellfish gathering – often the only income for families here – has become harder as grounds shrink and catches decline. For Cruz Potes there is little doubt where the blame lies. Pointing towards a large tank, she says: “When the shrimp farms arrived, they cleared all the trees to build those ponds. But the conchas live in the roots. When the trees go, they go too.” |
Saudi parrotfish festival stretches traditional ecological knowledge
| | THUWAL, Saudi Arabia, 18 June 2025 (Mongabay) - During the annual “hareed” festival in the Farasan Islands - an archipelago in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia - hundreds of people run into the water to catch parrotfish, which aggregate there annually since time immemorial. Science cannot yet explain this annual phenomenon, but there are clues in traditional ecological knowledge and cultural history, a new op-ed explains. |
It was the 'Italian Alcatraz' - now nature has reclaimed its space
| | WASHINGTON, US, 18 June 2026 (Nat.Geog) - “It was immediately clear to me that there’s no place in Sardinia like it - in fact, only a few spots in the whole Mediterranean can claim such a level of environmental integrity,” says freediver Alessandro Masala about his early immersions in waters surrounding Asinara, an island dotting the western Mediterranean off the coast of Sardinia. |
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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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ARCTIC COUNCIL |
| | UArctic Congress 26-29 May 2026, Torshavn, Faroe Islands |
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SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference 25-28 June, 2026, Tacloban City, Leyte Islands, Philippines |
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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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SPREP |
| | 11th Pacific Islands Conference for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, 7–11 September 2026, Noumea, New Caledonia |
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ANATOMY OF ISLANDS |
| | 14th Anatomy of Islands symposium 15-17 Oct, 2026, Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia |
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IWRA |
| | 2nd Islands Water Congress 9-11 Dec, 2026, Montego Bay, Jamaica |
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