The herpetofauna of Vanuatu is unique for its lack or scarcity of several widespread Pacific island gecko species (Gehyra mutilata, Hemidactylus garnotii and Hemiphyllodactylus typus). Other Vanuatu species include widespread Pacific species (Gehyra oceanica, Emoia caeruleocauda, E. cyanura, E. impar, Lipinia noctua, Laticauda colubrina, L. laticaudata, and Pelamis platura), southern species which are absent north of the archipelago (L. buleli), species with Solomon affinities (Gekko vittatus, Lepidodactylus guppyi, Nactus multicarinatus, Emoia
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Climate change is the most critical existential threat of our time, and its adverse impacts
pose significant threats to the sustainable livelihoods and wellbeing of Vanuatu’s people.
It is against this critical conditions that Vanuatu urges committed global action against climate
change. Most importantly this will also entail strengthening the implementation of the
Paris Agreement and limiting global temperature rise to 1.5⁰C above the pre-industrial level.
Vanuatu’s Third National Communication is an essential document for Vanuatu to fulfill its
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Dilapidated transport routes, unsafe power grids, buildings in a state of disrepair: During extreme natural events, a fragile infrastructure can have grave consequences for the local population, for whom it represents a direct threat. In addition, it delays the effective potential for those affected to help themselves and impedes humanitarian relief provided by the local authorities or from abroad. Usually, the challenges that relief agencies face are on the “last mile”
21 August 2018.
Resilient community water supply (i.e. a continuously safe and secure supply) is constantly being challenged by limited and fragile water resources at the mercy of natural hazards such as cyclones, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and the impacts of climate variability and change. Small communities spread over vast distances, and limited human and financial resources to reach out to these communities add to their vulnerability.
in Bouchet P., Le guyader H. & pascal O. (Eds), The Natural History of Santo. MNHN, Paris; IRD, Marseille; PNI, Paris. 572 p. (Patrimoines naturels; 70).
Orthoptera are world-wide distributed insects easily recognized by their enlarged hindlegs, adapted to jump, and by their forewings, which cover the dorsal and the lateral sides of the body. They include two infraorders, Caelifera (short- horned Orthoptera) and Ensifera (long-horned Orthoptera), subdivided into several major taxonomic groups.
in Bouchet P., Le guyader H. & pascal O. (Eds), The Natural History of Santo. MNHN, Paris; IRD, Marseille; PNI, Paris. 572 p. (Patrimoines naturels; 70).
The exploration of Santo surface freshwater habitats undertaken in 2006 revealed a second example of the colonisation of island freshwater habitats by a predominantly marine group: this time an isopod belonging to the basically marine family Sphaeromatidae. Isopods are a diverse group of crustaceans containing terrestrial forms, such as woodlice, as well as freshwater and marine forms. Some species are even parasitic on shrimp hosts and
exhibit highly modified body shapes.
Vanuatan ground beetle tribe Platynini has been revised recently by Liebherr as represented by 11 species, five of them recorded on Santo. We identified so far six species, three of which are new island records of described species and one — of apparently undescribed one. Twenty one species of anthribids from Saratsi Range and camp site have been sorted so far. The entire Vanuatu fauna is represented by nine species, and only five of them are known from
Santo.
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Vanuatu is warming and is expected to warm throughout the 21st century. Future rates of warming are clouded
by current models’ inability to simulate very localized changes but, warming is expected to be in the range of
0.7°C–2.9°C depending on the 21st century rate of global emissions.
• Natural variability between years, even decades, ensure short- and medium-term rainfall changes are difficult
to detect and project into the future. Further research is urgently required to develop models better suited to
modelling the future climate of Pacific Islands.
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Vanuatu’s contribution to man-made global emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG)
is minute by international standards. Most emissions come from the combustion of
fuels for transport and electricity generation, with carbon dioxide the predominant
GHG emitted. Given the small proportion of the population with ready access to
transport and electric supplies, the importance of expanding these services for
economic and social development, and the dependence of Vanuatu on imported
July 2017. Granderson.
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There is increasing recognition of traditional knowledge as an important store of information and practices for
building adaptive capacity for climate change in the Pacific. However, empirical research and documentation of
how Pacific Islanders experience climate change, identify relevant adaptation options, and mobilize their
adaptive capacity, including traditional knowledge, remains limited. Given this context, indigenous islander
perspectives on traditional knowledge and its role in building their adaptive capacity are examined in this article.
Published Date: November 2007
Draft SOPAC Miscellaneous Report 648