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After countless hours searching for rare seahorses in French Polynesia, a photographer captured...

French photographer Julien Anton won the top prize at the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 awards. His winning image captured a male seahorse with two newborn juveniles in French Polynesia. Anton spent many hours searching for the rare seahorse family in Mo'orea. The photograph also won the Wildlife category…

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Coral Gardeners Reef Restoration: Teen surfer’s nurseries test reef revival; project spans three nations

In 2017, a passionate young Polynesian surfer launched an ambitious international coral restoration project. This initiative focuses on cultivating coral fragments within underwater nurseries, aimed at replanting them effectively. With over 221,000 corals successfully planted across three nations, the initiative fosters resilient reefs capable of reproduction, showcasing the power of…

The Times of India

Nauru to be endorsed as next Pacific Islands Forum host

The next string of Pacific Islands Forum hosts are now set: New Zealand in 2027, Nauru in 2028, Marshall Islands in 2029 and in 2031, French Polynesia.

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How Humpback Whale Song Dialects Shift Over Decades and What Cultural Transmission Tells Us

The Song That Crosses an OceanIn 1998, marine biologist Michael Noad and his colleagues at the University of Queensland documented something that had no clean explanation at the time. Two humpback whales off the east coast of Australia were singing a song-type that belonged to the west coast population, a…

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Obesity rises sharply as French Polynesia faces chronic health challenges

French Polynesia is facing growing public health pressures as rising rates of chronic disease combine with an ageing population and changing lifestyles. More than half of adult residents are now considered obese.

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What Humpback Whales Are Communicating Through Their Songs and Who Is Listening in the Ocean

The song is not random noiseA single humpback whale singing in the North Pacific can produce a sound sequence lasting up to 30 minutes, then repeat it almost exactly. Over weeks, the song changes, new phrases inserted, old ones dropped, and every male in the same ocean basin makes the…

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The Marquesas Islands: Cruising the Pacific's volcanic legends

Join the Aranui 5 on a unique cruise through the Pacific's breathtaking Marquesas Islands, a journey filled with volcanic legends and stunning landscapes

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‘Coral houses’ are dotted throughout the Pacific. Now scientists know exactly when they were built

The Mangareva Islands are about 1,600 kilometres southeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia. They get their name (which means “floating mountains”) from the way the sea spray breaking on the surrounding coral atolls, or motu, causes the ancient volcanic peaks to appear as if they are floating above the waves.

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France seizes 2.4 tonnes of cocaine in Pacific as drug seizures hit record highs

French authorities have seized 2.4 tonnes of cocaine from a vessel in the Pacific Ocean, marking the latest in a series of major drug interceptions near French Polynesia.

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The long half-life of France’s nuclear tests in Polynesia

Thirty years ago this week, on an island in the South Pacific, France conducted its final nuclear test – ending a programme that exposed thousands of people to radiation over decades. The islands of French Polynesia are still living with the fallout.

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Podcast: Drug prices, Dry January, nuclear tests in French Polynesia

How France negotiates drug prices and the impact of US President Donald Trump's pressure to raise them. The Paris bar celebrating sobriety as more people embrace Dry January. And the radioactive legacy of nuclear testing in French Polynesia.

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I Thought I’d Seen Every Shade Of Blue, Until I Sailed Through French Polynesia

French Polynesia showed me that wonder doesn’t shout, it unfolds quietly, one shade of blue at a time.

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Outteridge goes from remote island to SailGP start line

Olympic gold medallist Nathan Outteridge was on a remote island in French Polynesia when he heeded a call to return to the SailGP competition.

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Delfour delivers in canoe slalom world championships

French Polynesian-born paddler Lucien Delfour has competed on the Penrith course for almost 20 years and showed his local knowledge with an impressive K1 run.

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Record drug seizure in French Polynesia as overseas minister makes official visit

French customs officials have seized a record 900 kilogrammes of cocaine and 180 kilogrammes of methamphetamine aboard a sailing yacht off the Marquesas Islands – one of five archipelagos that make up French Polynesia. France's Overseas Minister Manuel Valls, on an official visit to the region, has said the "fight…

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French Polynesia declares increase in ocean protection

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about France’s maritime domains. There’s a poem by Pradip Basak read by RFI English journalist Amanda Morrow, “The Listener’s Corner”, and lots of good music. All that and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click…

International Business Times

China Downplayed Nuclear-capable Missile Test: Classified NZ Govt Papers

China tried to mislead foreign governments in 2024 by playing down the importance of a nuclear-capable missile test over the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand diplomats privately warned in documents obtained by AFP. Beijing sent shivers through the South Pacific in September 2024, when its elite Rocket Force fired a dummy…

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French Polynesia unveils world's largest marine protected zone

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson on Monday announced that his country is on track to create the world's largest marine protected area (MPA). The ambitious objective, spanning nearly 23 percent of the archipelago's waters, came on the first day of the UN Oceans Conference in Nice.

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Photographer Captures Breathtaking Underwater Scenes (30 Pics)

Rachel Moore is an award-winning underwater photographer, ocean advocate, and sailor currently living in French Polynesia.

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The health impact of nuclear tests in French Polynesia – archive, 1981

France spent €90,000 countering research into the effects of its Pacific nuclear tests in the 1960s and 70s. Learn how the Guardian reported early accounts of sickness and contamination

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France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests

Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged

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29-year-old manager quits job to go sailing across the Pacific Ocean with his cat because ‘the world kind of sucks’

He’s on his way from Oregon to Hawaii and then to French Polynesia

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Some shark bites are ‘survival instinct’, researchers say in defence of threatened predator

This is the first time self-defence in sharks has been documented in detail.

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‘Playing gods with the cradle of life’: French Polynesia’s president issues warning over deep-sea mining

Exclusive: Moetai Brotherson fears environmental risks of controversial practice and says independence from France must not be ‘rushed’

The Guardian - AU

Whales ‘relentlessly pestered’: tourism boom sparks new rules in French Polynesia

Caps on the number of boats allowed to approach whales among measures to be introduced while experts say restrictions don’t go far enough

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