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Mangaia ra’ui fisheries management system is actively managed and enforced by the Mangaia Island Council and the island’s traditional leaders. To allow resource-valuable species to recover, ra’ui are formed. When traditional leaders decide stocks have sufficiently recovered, ra’ui are lifted and the area is opened to harvest.

 Ministry of Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI)

This dataset contains all reports and documents on bathymetry and topography in the Cook Islands

During the 1965 Eclipse Expedition, bathymetric measurements were taken around the islands in the Southern Cook Group by N.Z Oceanographic Institute from HMNZS Endeavour and by Naval Research Laboratory from RNZFA Tui. 

 Ministry of Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI)

This data set contains all the reports and documents prepared for the geology of the Cook Islands.
 

The geology of the 15 Cook Islands in the south-central Pacific is briefly described and their geological history outlined.
 

 Ministry of Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI)

This is the Solid Waste Management Cook Islands data 

 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

This report, supported by UNDP and the Adaptation Fund, looks at the resilience of the Cook Islands and its communities to climate change. It was published in August 2013.

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

PDF Copy of the Wetlands of the Pacific Island Region by Joanna C. Ellison (2009)

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

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

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

pdf of the Cook Islands Wetlands Situations

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

Data on reef fish, sea urchin, sea urchin density and biomass

 Cook Islands National Environment Service

Marine Managed Areas Ra'ui on Rarotonga and Pa Enua

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 Cook Islands National Environment Service

Reports lagoon water quality includes on physio-chemical data

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 Cook Islands National Environment Service

Offshore Environment Tuna, Sharks and other targeted species Cook Islands

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Official DKAN data portal user manual (comprehensive)

Abstract The wetlands of 21 countries and territories of the Pacific Islands region are reviewed: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna. The regions’ wetlands are classified into seven systems: coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangrove swamps, riverine, lacustrine, freshwater swamp forests and marshes.

Executive Summary
This report is presented in 4 chapters.
Chapter 1 provides background on the process of developing the Cook Island
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). The Cook Islands was one
of the first countries to commit to the CBD by signing it at the Earth Summit in 1992,
and the Cook Island National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) was
one of the first to be completed for the Pacific Region. This in itself was a positive
step towards implementation of the CBD. The NBSAP was prepared based on