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The Fourth Pacific Islands Round table United by an overarching goal to increase effective conservation action in the Pacific islands region, some thirty-five conservation professionals joined together in Honolulu, in early November, 1999 for the Fourth Pacific Islands Roundtable. Senior representatives from 26 regional and international conservation organizations and donor agencies attended three days of plenary meetings and breakout sessions on the campus of the East-West Center in Manoa Valley. Nearly half of the attendees were first-time participants in the Roundtable. Exciting ideas were advanced and new partnerships were formed. Most importantly, participants volunteered to take actions (both modest and ambitious) to help the Roundtable progress towards meeting its goals

Partnerships shall be highlighted as one of the overarching themes in the revised strategy, in much the same way the concept of community-based conservation was treated in the 1994-1998 Action Strategy. Amendments to the Action Strategy's regional and international actions were made (Refer to Attachment 4 for details). The Drafting Committee shall have full editorial flexibility to polish the text received from the Working Group representatives.

To complete the development of Objectives indicators, the Roundtable decided that a small Working Group on Indicators comprising of Audrey Newman, Peter Hunman, Roger Cornforth and SPREP representatives be assigned this task and to repol1 to the next Roundtable II. Meeting on progress made.