Local whale watching operators in Tonga are concerned the government is handing out too many licenses while foreign operators flout the rules, putting the whales and their breeding grounds at risk.<\/p>\n
There have been calls for greater transparency over how Papua New Guinea’s 1 billion kina El Ni\u00f1o relief fund is being spent.<\/p>\n
We look at the big stories out of Fiji including the Constitution Amendment Bill’s final public consultation, Fiji’s new Attorney General and a high-ranking official has been named as a person of interest in the missing cocaine case.<\/p>\n
Pacific climate groups are calling on Australia to take the lead in ensuring the region’s demands for climate action.<\/p>\n
The most eagerly anticipated match of the Rugby League World Cup will see Toa Samoa take on Tonga this weekend, and Fiji is leading the way for the Pacific in the women’s competition.<\/p>\n
We take the temperature in Samoa and Tonga ahead of their big clash at the Rugby League World Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local whale watching operators in Tonga are concerned the government is handing out too many licenses while foreign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[51804,94380,316307,316306,111,139,69,3800,316304,147,316305,17971,406,316308],"class_list":["post-645481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-climate-action","tag-cop31","tag-fiji-bulikula","tag-mate-maa-tonga","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcast","tag-rugby-league-world-cup","tag-science","tag-toa-samoa","tag-whale-watching","tag-wildlife","tag-womens-rugby-league-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}