Fiji is moving beyond a forestry system focused mainly on timber harvesting, with the introduction of the new Forestry Act 2025 aimed at strengthening biodiversity protection, climate resilience and sustainable forest management.

The Pacific is not just on the front line of the climate crisis; we are also on the front line in the effort to shape and define climate justice.

Growing funding challenges are threatening Fiji’s ability to achieve its ambitious biodiversity and marine conservation goals by 2030.

Assistant Health Minister Penioni Ravunawa says climate resilience is essential to maintaining treatment continuity, laboratory services, medicine supply chains, and emergency outreach programmes.

This year’s pigeon shooting season is suspended following environmental, scientific, and legal concerns over Fiji’s indigenous pigeon species.

Sea turtles, which have journeyed across Fiji’s oceans and coasts for more than 200 million years, are now facing some of the greatest threats to their preservation and survival.

Fiji is aiming to protect 30 percent of its marine and terrestrial ecosystems by 2030 as part of its ambitious biodiversity conservation commitments.

Fiji and Vanuatu are strengthening regional cooperation on climate-driven community relocation as Pacific nations face increasing displacement threats caused by climate change and natural disasters.

Fiji has launched three major national biodiversity policy instruments aimed at strengthening environmental protection, climate resilience, and sustainable resource management.

The United Nations Development Program says Pacific Island countries are struggling to access enough funding to protect coral reefs and coastal ecosystems, despite these being key natural defences against climate change.

A $12.5 million coastal adaptation project must deliver real, on-the-ground results, says Permanent Secretary for Environment and Climate Change Dr. Sivendra Michael.

In Naloto village, located in Verata District in the province of Tailevu, the struggle against the sea is not a distant concern as it is a daily effort.