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Traditional way of life in the pacific islands in the expression of each and everybody's identity. The link between people and their natural habitat, living and unliving things is key to someone's social status, relationship to other member of its community and existence in the world. The session shall look at the importance of traditional knowledge and its relation to the environment as a way to protect existing biodiversity and thus ensuring that the cultural heritage of Pacific Island population i preserved.

The loss of nature is global ecological and economic catastrophe. As we have seen with the recent surge of hurricanes and typhoons, when nature's services we've long taken for granted begin to fall, it is poor communities that suffer most. Further, countless of people depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods. Thus addressing the decline of the health of our ocean should be a priority for all.

9Due to its paleogeographic and ecological background, the Medi-terranean Sea hosts a relatively high diversity and endemism of marine species and habitats. In relation to human occupation of the Mediterranean coasts over thousands of years, these unique species and habitats are increasingly under threat from human activities, and in particular at the present time from fishing practices, unsustainable tourism, coastal development, pollution and the exacerbating effects of climate change.

Protected areas are key to biodiversity conservation. While the value of protected areas is generally undisputed, challenges remain. Many areas designated as protected were created for
objectives other than biodiversity conservation, and those objectives can conflict with biodiversity
conservation. Protected area legal status is, in many cases, impermanent. Protected areas are
generally too small, isolated, and few to conserve biodiversity on their own, and thus there are calls

This report highlights WCS Fiji Country Program's achievements from January to December
2017, under our three main themes of Science, Management and Communication. We also
highlight our engagement with national and regional policy and planning, and the links to Fiji’s national priority strategies under the National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP), National Climate Change Policy, Green Growth Framework and National Gender Policy, to enable governments and partners to assess progress towards national targets.

Call Number: [EL],333.7 WCS

Powerpoint presentation on the Sovi Basin Protected Area, but the Director of National Trust of Fiji at the GEFPAS4 National Steering Committee Meeting, on the 6th February, 2015

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Physical Description: 30p. : ill. (col.) ; 29cm.

Migratory birds are part of the lives of many people around the world: little children who are shown their first swallows' nest by their grandfather city dwellers, who hear the calling of geese overhead, herdsmen, whose animals are followed by wagtails and harriers that feed on flushed insects; fishermen on every sea, whose boats are accompanied by albatrosses, shearwaters or boobies.

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Call Number: VF 7484,[EL]

ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-937429-98-4

Physical Description: 63p. : ill. (col.), tables, diagrams ;

Wildlife watching activities play a significant and growing part in the tourism industry, and create direct and indirect economic benefits for many countries and communities - especially amongst developing countries. This form of tourism can certainly make important contributions to conservation by raising awareness of the animals observed and their habitats, by creating revenues for conservation and by creating jobs for local communities.

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Call Number: [EL],VF 8500

ISBN/ISSN: 3-93-74-29-07-7

Protected areas for Pacific Island Communities - Managing natural resources now and for the future (Poster)

Online - Poster

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Physical Description: 1p. : ill, (col.)

The Vatu-i-Ra Seascape is an area of unique ecological value located between Fiji’s two main islands incorporating the four provinces of Bua, Ra, Lomaiviti, and Tailevu, and their associated traditional fishing grounds and offshore channels.

Central Africa supports an incredible biodiversity, and its inland waters are no exception. The Congo River has the highest species diversity of any freshwater system in Africa, and is second in species richness globally, after the Amazon. This diversity provides benefits to humans both directly, such as through livelihoods from fisheries, and indirectly through services such as the purification of water for drinking.

The marine environment is a vital resource for Fiji's tourism, yet industry and community efforts to conserve and improve it have largely gone unrecognised, and are under-utilised in Fiji's tourism

The management plan describes the priority strategies for the Ijuw/Anabar wetlands Proposed Conservation area (PCA) that will best maintain and improve the key conservation values in this area by reducing the impact of threats, including from climate change.

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Call Number: [EL],574.526 325 MAN

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0682-7,978-982-04-0683-4

Physical Description: 13 p. 29 cm

Tuvalu signed the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992 and rarified it in 2002. With the increasing effects of climate change, there is growing recognition on the need for education on understanding the significance of the existing biodiversity in our ecosystem.

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Call Number: 371.302 8 BIO ,[EL]

ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0694-0,978-982-04-0695-7

Physical Description: 62 p. 29 cm

As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, most countries of the world have established protected areas. Virtually all such areas enjoy some form of legal protection. Growth in protected areas has continued to trend upward since the 1960s, when data showed only about 1.5 per cent of the earth’s surface covered. Today, more than 12 per cent of the earth’s surface is part of some type of formal protected area But scientific assessments indicate that biodiversity and ecosystem integrity are continuing to decline at an accelerating rate.