Between September and October 1991 and again during September 1992, skinks (Emoia spp.) were collected from various localities on Fiji and Papua New Guinea (PNG) and examined for coccidians. One of 4 (25%) De Vis' emo skinks (Emoia pallidiceps) from PNG harbored an undescribed species of Isospora in its feces. Oocysts of Isospora grinbikpelapalai n. sp. were ellipsoidal to subspheroidal, 18.1 ×...

Fiji’s land snail fauna is highly diverse. There are over 230 species of which about 90% are native and 78% are endemic to the archipelago. There are 18 introduced species and four that are of uncertain origin within the Pacific. Information to allow easy identification of these species is lacking, as is related information about the risks involved with the introduced species in respect to trad...

Coconut production in Fiji was a mainstay of the economy and indigenous culture in the late 1800s to early 1900s. From around 1877 coconut production on Viti Levu was severely affected by Levuana iridescens BetheuneBaker, a small purple moth, whose larvae trenched the underside of coconut leaves. A variety of cultural and chemical control strategies over approximately a 16-yr period failed to b...

With the implementation of strict quarantine and adjunct health measures, Fiji was largely spared from COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In April 2021, arrival delta variant SARS-CoV-2 resulted a major outbreak that is only now under control. The country enacted swift countermeasures to reduce population movement, but gained foothold peri-urban areas largest city, Suva, there spread other urban centre...

FIJI leaf gall is one of Australia’s most serious diseases of sugarcane and represents a significant problem in almost half of the total area under sugarcane production. Rating sugarcane clones for resistance/susceptibility is difficult and expensive, due to the nature of field-based methods and variable infection levels of trials. Despite the recent development of glasshouse methods to evaluat...

Though it is contended that mobile value added services (MVAS) can help growth of small and microenterprises, few empirical studies have investigated the drivers of MVAS adoption particularly by women entrepreneurs. Our study fills this important gap in the literature by specifically focusing on women micro-enterprises (WMEs) in a Pacific island country Fiji. The study aims to investigate the e...