This session will bring together representatives from communities, governments and civil society to discuss their viewpoints, experiences and insights on defining conservation in the Pacific context, and what this means to a range of Indigenous Pacific People. Through a "talanoa" style panel discussion. The panel will share their thoughts and recommendations to strengthen local and indigenous-led conservation programming in the Pacific
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Physical Description: 53:22
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
Online only|Powerpoint presentation
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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.
1 copy
Call Number: VF 7484,[EL]
ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-937429-98-4
Physical Description: 63p. : ill. (col.), tables, diagrams ;