Bali leaders crack down on pollution
| | DENPASAR, Bali, 8 April 2026 (Bali Sun) - Talk of trash is intense this week in Bali…more intense than usual. The island’s longstanding issues with waste management impact both local communities and visiting tourists, and it is an issue that has even hit international headlines. With the island’s biggest open landfill set to close in a matter of months, some big changes are necessary. It’s going to take a collective effort. |
Guardians of Sao Tome's rarest birds
| | CAMBRIDGE, UK, 7 April 2026 (BirdLife) - Hidden within the lush forests of São Tomé lives a remarkable trio of birds found nowhere else on Earth. The Dwarf Ibis, the Sao Tome Grosbeak, and the Newton's Fiscal are among the island’s most iconic endemic species and are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Restricted to the forests of this small Gulf of Guinea island, their survival now depends on urgent conservation action. |
From dialogue to delivery: The Pacific's climate mobility moment
| | BANGKOK, Thailand, 7 April 2026 (IPS) - Rising seas, intensifying storms, saltwater intrusion and shifting coastlines are the lived realities of Pacific communities today. Families are making difficult decisions about whether to stay, adapt or move. Some communities have already relocated. Others are preparing for that possibility. Many are determined to stay for as long as possible on lands that hold ancestral meaning and identity. |
Oman tightens controls to protect Hallaniyat Islands
| | DHOFAR, Oman, 7 April 2026 ( Muscat Daily) - The Environment Authority has introduced new regulations governing activities around the Hallaniyat Islands, restricting fishing, diving and research in the surrounding maritime buffer zone as part of efforts to protect biodiversity and regulate access to the environmentally sensitive area. |
Cyprus wants British sovereign bases deal remodeled
| | BRUSSELS, Belgium, 7 April 2026 (Euractiv) - Cyprus has the full weight of the EU behind its demand for talks to end British sovereign control over key strategic military bases at Akrotiri and Dhekelia on the island. Spelling trouble ahead for Sir Keir Starmer and risking the ire of Donald Trump, Nicosia’s legal game plan is modelled on the controversial deal handing back control of Chagos Islands, and the Diego Garcia military base, from Britain to Mauritius. |
This once-lawless UK island is now a place to disconnect
| | WASHINGTON, US, 7 April 2026 (Nat.Geog) - Lundy is three miles long, half a mile wide and 12 miles off the coast of England. It’s one of the UK’s most remote inhabited islands - continue west and the next land mass is Canada. There are no roads, no cars and therefore no pollution. There are no street lights and the electricity turns off at midnight, plunging the island into a kind of darkness that’s almost extinct on the mainland. |
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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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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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