Analysis - The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting this week takes place amid a changing dynamic of security and development in the region, writes Maima Koro
A global initiative supporting ocean conservation efforts in the most remote corners of the tropical Pacific has sent an all-Cook Islands research team to Penrhyn.
After 38 days at sea spanning over a distance of 1500 kilometres, Australian rower Tom Robinson, who spent four months on Penrhyn, arrived in Pago Pago, American Samoa after leaving the northern group island in April.
National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas program just launched a five-year expedition to explore remote areas of the Pacific and support conservation efforts.