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Regional councils have these specific functions under the Resource Management Act 1991: Planning for the integrated management of natural and physical resources [11] Planning for regionally significant land uses [12] Soil conservation, water quality and quantity, water ecosystems, natural hazards, hazardous substances [13]
According to the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (previously South Pacific Regional Environment Programme), two small uninhabited Kiribati islets, Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, disappeared underwater in 1999. [114] The sea level at Christmas Island, in the 50 years between 1972 and 2022, has risen 5 cm (2.0 in). [115]
The largest park is the 358-acre Tholkappia Poonga, developed to restore the fragile ecosystem of the Adyar estuary. [376] Semmozhi Poonga is a 20 acres (8.1 ha) botanical garden maintained by the horticulture department. [377]
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon, [b] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
Argentina is a regional power, and retains its historic status as a middle power in international affairs. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] A major non-NATO ally of the United States, [ 24 ] Argentina is a developing country with the second-highest HDI (human development index) in Latin America after Chile . [ 25 ]
A map of Tonga Located in Oceania , Tonga is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean , directly south of Samoa and about two-thirds of the way from Hawai'i to New Zealand. Its 171 islands, 45 of them inhabited, [ 1 ] are divided into three main groups – Vava'u, Ha'apai, and Tongatapu – and cover an 800-kilometre (500-mile; 430-nautical ...