WCS 3-Sentence Science

Maintaining Ecosystem Services in Oceania

Wildlife Conservation Society
1 min readNov 12, 2019

October 31, 2019

CREDIT: STACY JUPITER

Each year, Wildlife Conservation Society scientists publish more than 300 peer-reviewed studies and papers. “WCS 3-Sentence Science” is a regular tip-sheet — in bite sized helpings — of some of this published work.

Here we present work by WCS Melanesia Regional Director Stacy Jupiter on the importance of ecosystem services to health and wellbeing in Oceania.

  1. Researchers looked at the role of ecosystem services in the region of Oceania to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 3: Health and Wellbeing for All.
  2. They found that cultural ecosystem services have a significant impact on mental and socio-cultural health.
  3. Research such as the WISHFiji project and the development of a consolidated platform to provide exchange and dialogue, and the development of policy, investment, and action that recognizes ecosystem health co-benefits should be strongly supported.

Study and Journal: “Ecosystem services for human health in Oceania” from Ecosystem Services
WCS Co-Author(s): Stacy Jupiter, WCS Melanesia Director

For more information, contact: Stephen Sautner, 718–220–3682, ssautner@wcs.org.

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