Kosrae Department of Resource and Economic Affairs
Giant clams on Kosrae's reefs are still considered as an important food resources, but over harvesting has widely depleted the reefs of Kosrae. Restocking the reefs is an effective means for building resiliency and diversity for rural communities, promoting food security and economic well being for the island people. Alarming now is the increasingly higher distance between two wild clams, making natural spawning- is less or very limited.
Department of Environment, Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM), FSM
Pictures of the outreach
Department of Environment, Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM), FSM, Department of Resources & Development, FSM, Yap State Government
This is the Vegetation Survey of Yap Main Island from 1986
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
This dataset summarised a few key findings of the FSM State of Environment Report 2018 in interactive graphs.
In 2016, most of the 54,000 ha of forest in FSM was tropical lowland rainforest