Pacific Prepared Podcast

How the Tongan Red Cross continues to assist people impacted by the volcanic eruption of early 2022 18.08.2022 30:00 ↓

More than six months on from the volcanic eruption, Tongan communities are still receiving valuable assistance.

The ‘half modern, half traditional’ job that helps some of Fiji’s outer islands prepare for natural disasters 11.08.2022 30:00 ↓

How remote Fijian communities communicate with their councils.

With increased cyclone and storm risks, some Fijian villages turning back to traditional styles of homes also known as a bure 04.08.2022 30:00 ↓

With the increased risk from cyclones and storm, some Fijian residents are favouring a more traditional style of homes known as a bure.

Disaster preparation talks take place in Tonga, through the lens of the volcanic eruption earlier in 2022 28.07.2022 30:00 ↓

The Tongan volcanic eruption in early 2022 shaped some of the conversation around disaster preparedness that happened recently

How Tonga has managed keep up food supply in the face of a triple disaster 21.07.2022 30:00 ↓

Tonga’s agriculture sector has been forced to keep the countries food supply operating in the face of a volcanic eruption, tsunami and COVID outbreak

Students in a remote Fijian village are now catching a boat to school because the roads are being washed away 14.07.2022 30:00 ↓

After the main road was washed away due to rising sea levels, students from a remote school in the Yasawa Islands are travelling to school by boat.

How one Fijian village is slowly disappearing due to increased flooding 07.07.2022 30:00 ↓

Increased flooding and changing weather patterns is slowing eating away one Fijian village.

Managing the relationships between Indigenous Fijian islanders and the modern world of the Pacific 30.06.2022 30:00 ↓

Island hopping and drinking coconut milk; it’s all part of the job.

How Fiji is communicating with communities around disaster preparedness, while respecting traditional knowledge 23.06.2022 30:00 ↓

Maintaining traditional knowledge, while introducing new disaster preparedness technology 

Revegetating mangroves in Papua New Guinea is helping to restore coastlines back to health 16.06.2022 30:00 ↓

Coastline health sees benefits of mangrove revegetation by woman in PNG, plus gender inclusion helps boost disaster preparedness in Vanuatu.

How Tonga’s fishing industry has been impacted from the volcanic eruption and how the ministry of agriculture are assisting 09.06.2022 30:00 ↓

Months on, Tonga’s fishing industry is working with the government to help turn bring some normality back

We just ran and left everything’: Residents describe Flooding in Vanuatu sparked by Cyclone Gina through 02.06.2022 30:00 ↓

Cyclone Gina caused widespread flooding in Vanuatu during May, residents share their experiences.

Looking back at two very different volcano stories from Tonga and Solomon Islands 26.05.2022 30:00 ↓

Research continues in Tonga after the volcanic eruption in 2022

Sustainable farming practices helping Vanuatu farmers become more resilient against 19.05.2022 30:00 ↓

Vanuatu farmers combating natural disasters

Diving over the Tongan eruption site; New Zealand researcher finding out more about the volcanic eruption 12.05.2022 30:00 ↓

New Zealand researcher Shane Cronin has been spending time in Tonga diving over the eruption site, collecting data and information.

Memories of volcanic eruptions passed on through story telling 05.05.2022 30:00 ↓

Memories of volcanic eruptions passed on through story telling

Tonga royal family member visits Atata island that was devastated by volcanic eruption and tsunami in early 2022 28.04.2022 30:00 ↓

Tongan island communities thinking about the future post the destructive eruption and tsunami

Our Oceans conference in Palau has the eyes of the world focusing on the waters 21.04.2022 30:00 ↓

An update from eruption impacted communities in Tonga

Natural disaster drills helping young people form vital, life-saving habits in Tuvalu 14.04.2022 28:53 ↓

Changing habits around natural disasters at an early age

Cyclone update from the Pacific, and changes to seatbelt laws in Palau 07.04.2022 30:00 ↓

There’s a cyclone sitting off the coast of New Caledonia, find out what that means for where you live in the Pacific; Plus changes to seatbelt laws in Palau will be coming later in 2022, so messages are going out now to make sure the community is ready.

How Tonga is coping now the country has COVID-19 and how one of the most vulnerable Pacific populations is taking matters into their own hands. 31.03.2022 30:00 ↓

The rough start to 2022 continues for Tonga and preparing for disaster in one of the most vulnerable places

Solomon Islands tries a new way of passing on disaster preparation information 24.03.2022 30:00 ↓

Getting the disaster message across in Solomon Islands

Pacific Prepared - Planning to save Solomon Islands from the worst disasters 17.03.2022 30:00 ↓

What farmers learned from a volcanic eruption in Vanuatu and the ideal flood early warning system

Pacific Prepared: The Samoan weather office provides an update on the remainder of the cyclone season 10.03.2022 30:00 ↓

An outlook at Samoa’s weather for the remainder of the cyclone season, plus how a precious Fijian site is struggling to survive.

Pacific Prepared - Fijians lending a hand in flood hit Lismore, what role the military can play in disaster preparation and learning more about volcanos in Vanuatu 03.03.2022 30:00 ↓

Fijian workers assisting flood impacted areas of Australia