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Gift to Interior Museum highlights history made by first Pacific Islander to descend to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench

WASHINGTON (Interior Department) —  The U.S. Department of the Interior’s  Office of Insular Affairs  applauds the Interior Museum for recently acquiring items donated by Nicole Yamase, who on March 11, 2021, became the first Pacific Islander to descend to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. The Interior Museum accepted the items this week in honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage month. “May these items represent our strength, pride, resiliency, and the amazing accomplishments we will continue to achieve as Pacific Islanders,” said Nicole Yamase. “We often remark that our collection spans from West to East and from sea to sky, but to be given these items that have traveled with Nicole Yamase to the deepest known section of the Earth’s ocean is a first for the museum and incredibly special,” said Tracy Baetz, chief curator of the Interior Museum.

Pohnpei-wide Mangrove Vulnerability Assessment completed

  Pohnpei Mangroves are vital to the communities of Micronesia, and especially Pohnpei. They filter water from sediment and unnecessary nutrients, host nursery habitat for fish, crabs and other marine life, provide livelihoods and protect coastal communities from storms and storms surges. Mangrove ecosystems are vital to the survival of Pohnpeian communities by keeping them resilient and protecting them from the impacts of climate change and global warming such as more frequent droughts, flooding and saltwater inundation into farmlands. However, today, our mangroves are being threatened not just by climate change, but also human impacts such as dredging and landfills. On February 25th, 2021, the Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT), its local partners including the FSM National Department of R&D, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Micronesia Program, the Conservation Society of Pohnpei (CSP) and Pohnpei State Department of R&D, held a webinar with the United States Forest Service (USFS),

FSM s first Green Climate Fund project begins

FSM’s first Green Climate Fund project begins Details Written by Bill Jaynes   PALIKIR, Pohnpei On March 19th, 2021, His Excellency David W. Panuelo President of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) gave an address on the occasion of the signing of the Nation’s first single-country project with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The FSM Climate Resilient Food Security Project, the result of diligent effort on behalf of Micronesia Conservation Trust and the GCF National Designated Authority Office in Palikir, with support from the Departments of Resources & Development, Environment, Climate Change, & Emergency Management, and Finance & Administration, the State Governments of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae, the College of Micronesia-FSM, The Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Agency for International Development, et al., is a 9.4 million-dollar project of which nearly 8.6 million will be directly financed by the GCF.

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