Tokelau and PNA react to New Zealand fisheries action
| | MAJURO, Marshall Islands, 17 July 2026 (RNZ) - Tokelau - made up of three atolls with a total population of about 1500 people - benefited hugely from joining a Pacific tuna cartel in 2012. The impact of being part of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) was so significant that revenue generated from its lucrative fishery quickly accounted for as much as 40 percent of the national budget for this non-self-governing territory of New Zealand. But all that came to a halt early this year, when the PNA terminated Tokelau's participation in PNA's Vessel Day Scheme (VDS) that manages the purse seine industry in Pacific waters, where over half the world's tuna is caught. |
Island nations call for packaging redesign to curb ocean plastic
| | ARNHEM, The Netherlands, 17 July 2026 (PI) - Ocean plastic pollution disproportionately affects island nations, which lack the infrastructure and investment to process large amounts of packaging waste. In one modeled scenario of no improvement to global waste management, the researchers estimate that by 2060, there will be 2.8 times more ocean plastic than in 2018. |
Can relationship between San Andres and mainland Colombia improve
| | SAN ANDRES, Colombia, 17 July 2026 (LAR) - On July 4, San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, the most far off of Colombia’s 32 departments, elected a new governor in special elections. The outgoing acting governor hopes that more attention will be brought to the needs of the community on the islands, and she remains hopeful that relations between the archipelago and Colombia’s national government will improve. |
Philippines condemns monkey video on Chinese media as racist
| | LONDON, UK, 17 July 2026 (BBC) - The Philippines has condemned the "dehumanising and racist" portrayal of the country as a timid monkey strong-armed by the US and Japan to take Beijing on over the South China Sea. Last week, China Daily posted an AI-generated video featuring a monkey in a Filipino shirt. It screams as arms bearing the Japanese and US flags shove it onto a rickety karaoke stage set up in a boat. After it gets scolded for singing the wrong song, it pulls out a sheet reading "South China Sea arbitration award". It is then flung into the sea and blasted by a water cannon. |
3 islands help control access to the Strait of Hormuz
| | DUBAI, UAE, 16 July 2026 (AP) - The expanding U.S. military campaign against Iran has put three small islands that sit at the confluence of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz in the crosshairs once again. The islands of Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb - which were seized in 1971 by Iran from what would become the United Arab Emirates - have become a garrison for Iran, helping it exert significant control over the strait, through which a fifth of all oil and natural gas passes in peacetime. U.S. strikes on two of the islands in recent days have renewed speculation about the fate of these small isles, whose ownership remains disputed. |
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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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SOCIETY OF ISLAND BIOLOGY |
| | 5th Island Biology conference 2-6 November, 2026, Atami City, Japan |
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IWRA |
| | 2nd Islands Water Congress 9-11 Dec, 2026, Montego Bay, Jamaica |
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