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September 5, 2023
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor A Radio New Zealand journalist says an Indonesian government official attempted to bribe and intimidate him at last month’s 22nd Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders’ summit in Port Vila. The Indonesian government has responded yesterday saying it would “surely look” into the claims. RNZ journalist Kelvin Anthony was in Port ... <a title="Indonesia responds after claim official attempted to bribe RNZ Pacific journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/05/indonesia-responds-after-claim-official-attempted-to-bribe-rnz-pacific-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia responds after claim official attempted to bribe RNZ Pacific journalist">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2021
By David Robie Pacific journalism educators are worried that the global covid pandemic has threatened media development programmes in a vast region of island microstates at a time when expertise in health and climate change reporting has never been greater. The news media industry in some countries has recognised this need and is trying to ... <a title="Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/12/pacific-voice-of-the-voiceless-media-in-renewed-post-covid-struggle/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2021
By Priestley Habru in Honiara Solomon Islands’ environmental authorities have highlighted the need to protect the forests from logging following a recent report on new distributional sightings of the blue-faced parrotfinch, or Erythrura trichroa. The bird revealed its existence on Malaita and Makira islands and the report, published in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology on ... <a title="New sighting of endemic bird signals need to stop logging in the Solomons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/30/new-sighting-of-endemic-bird-signals-need-to-stop-logging-in-the-solomons/" aria-label="Read more about New sighting of endemic bird signals need to stop logging in the Solomons">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2020
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch In this new covid-19 world, environmental and climate crisis defenders are developing new ways to cope and operate under the pandemic constraints. Groups as diverse as the local branch of the global environmental campaigner Greenpeace Pacific, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Green Party in ... <a title="How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/12/how-pacific-environmental-defenders-are-coping-with-the-covid-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
By Sheldon Chanel in Suva Fiji’s Suva foreshore has been under “enormous” pressure from decades of destructive practices with little to no public awareness about the various afflictions, says prominent academic professor Vijay Naidu. The problems have been exacerbated by no sustained public awareness campaign, absence of environmental issues in Pacific news media coverage and ... <a title="Fiji academic calls for more action to reverse Suva foreshore pollution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/fiji-academic-calls-for-more-action-to-reverse-suva-foreshore-pollution/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji academic calls for more action to reverse Suva foreshore pollution">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2020
By Zahra Karim Didarali in Jakarta The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the way journalists report and has limited the stories they’re able to tell, forcing many of them to drop coverage of issues like the environment in order to focus on the public health crisis. But for Jakarta-based Kantor Berita Radio ... <a title="Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/01/indonesian-radio-gets-covid-creative-to-communicate-climate-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch In an innovative new development Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) will partner with the Pacific Media Centre on a “climate and covid” project to help improve and enhance the quality of environmental and reporting in the Pacific region. In a move that could signal future partnerships ... <a title="EJN teams up with PMC’s Pacific Media Watch on new climate project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/ejn-teams-up-with-pmcs-pacific-media-watch-on-new-climate-project/" aria-label="Read more about EJN teams up with PMC’s Pacific Media Watch on new climate project">Read more</a>