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 Cook Islands National Environment Service

biodiversity data for invertebrates, vertebrates, endemic and invasive species

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

Project Progress Reports on the Programme developed to protect & conserve rare Vairakau Maori (traditional medicine) plants

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

Dataset that provides a direct link to Cook Island's data hosted on the GBIF website / records.

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

direct internet link to data related to bird species of the Cook Islands on the BirdLife International portal

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

For the Ninth Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas December 2013, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) commissioned an assessment of the status of biodiversity and conservation in Oceania. This report assesses the overall state of conservation in the Cook Islands using 16 indicators.

*this report wasn't published but was sent to country for checking (2013) *- to be used for the Regional SOE initiative 2019

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

This dataset summarizes biodiversity data on plants, animals, marine and other biodiversity elements in Cook Islands.

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

This is a dataset provided by NES in 2014

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

Planning resource for integrated action planning for the management of the Cook Islands marine environment

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

CITES data for workshop

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

This draft report looks at the catchment management and restoration plan for Rarotonga in Cook Islands. It was published in November 2015.

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

Data on the Kakerori or the Rarotonga Flycatcher in Cook Islands

 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP),  SPREP Environmental Monitoring and Governance (EMG),  UNEP/GEF,  Cook Islands National Environment Service

The SOE uses the 2011 report by Cook Islands to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to identify the country’s terrestrial protected areas. There are 14 terrestrial PAs, which total at least 1407.2 hectares (five PAs are uncalculated), or about six per cent of the Cook Islands’ total 240 km2 land mass.

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

map of transect lines on each of the Islet of Palmerston island

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

Site locations of known Iniao (Pritchardia mitiarona) clusters on Mitiaro.

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

This report contributes preliminary results for a study of the genomic diversity and population connectivity of paua (small giant clam, Tridacna maxima) in the Cook Islands.

Islands used in this study include Manihiki, Palmerston, Aitutaki, Manuae, Takutea, Atiu, Mitiaro, Mauke, Rarotonga and Mangaia.

This research was commissioned by the Ministry of Marine Resources.

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

A nearshore marine assessment of Atiu and Takutea prepared by MMR for Atiu Island Council and Community. The  survey in Atiu took place from the 21st to 30th of May 2018 at ten field sites around the island. The survey in Takutea took place on the 24th and 25th of May of 2018 at four sites around the island. Survey sites were selected to include any existing rā’ui and nearby control areas (unregulated areas open to harvest). Finfish, invertebrates and substrate data were collected at each field site on both islands using SCUBA transects in 10 m of water on the fore reef slope.

 Cook Islands National Environment Service
 Cook Islands National Environment Service

This report looks at plant genetic resources for traditional food production and consumption in Cook Islands. It was published in September 2008 by the Food and Agriculture Organization.

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

pdf of the Cook Islands 4th National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity 2011