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  • Pacific Blue on Fiji TV Close Up

    Fiji Television, Sunday, March 6, 2011 Fiji Television focuses on Pacific Blue Foundation’s conservation efforts. Recognizing that local community involvement is necessary for effective resource management, Pacific Blue Foundation is lauded for looking to locals for suggestions and support.

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  • Pacific Blue Through The Years

    Read the Annual Reviews for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010

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  • Barrier Reef Not Looking So Great

    The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday, November 28, 2010 A RESEARCH team running the world’s first underwater laboratory on the Great Barrier Reef has confirmed the natural treasure is in great danger.

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  • Emma Robens Wins 2010 Panda Award

    Wednesday, October 13, 2010 After diligently working alongside Austin Bowden-Kerby, Emma Robens’ time paid off. Her short nature film, The Coral Gardener, was announced the winner of the Panda Award at Wildscreen on October 13th, 2010.

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  • Veitau Waqa – The Boat Lives

    Maritime skills have long been a major part of Fijian culture, particularly Fijian expertise in seafaring vessels. The waqa ni viti is a traditional sailing boat with designs and sizes that vary from the twin hulled drua, to the outrigger single-hulled camakau, to the smaller takia.  Use of these traditional Fijian canoes, however, has slowly faded from…

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  • Welcome to the Pacific Blue Foundation

    Pacific Blue Foundation is dedicated to conserving cultural and biological diversity in South Pacific Island Nations and other coastal regions. Pacific Blue Foundation provides basic research, education, encouragement and dissemination of sustainable practices in coastal regions with the ultimate goal of preserving and promoting the biological and cultural diversity of the region.

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  • Camakau races held at the Suva Harbour waterfront

    Fiji Times, Saturday, January 23, 2010 A large crowd of islanders gathered on Saturday afternoon on the Suva Harbor foreshore for three races of camakau, or traditional outrigger sailing canoes.

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  • Rocket Stoves to Totoya

    Fiji Times, Thursday, January 21, 2010 About 90 households in Totoya, in Lau, will soon enjoy cooking on smokeless stoves donated by the Pacific Blue Foundation.

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  • Islanders Prepare For Canoe Race

    Islanders Prepare For Canoe Race Fiji Times, Thursday, January 16, 2010 Test run … the camakau traditional Fijian canoe, on Laucala Bay yesterday. The people of Suva will see first-hand traditional maritime skills on display when the people of Fulaga and Moce battle it out in a canoe race next week. The competition is organised…

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  • 2010 Annual Review

    Read the complete 2010 Annual Report. In 2010, Pacific Blue Foundation placed a majority of its focus on the preservation of Fijian culture. Sustainable practices, however, are often part of traditional ways.

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