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The Ramu Nickel Project is a proposal to mine and refine lateritic ores to produce nickel and cobalt for sale on world markets. The project is located in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

Each cultural group in Vanuatu has its own traditional approaches to the management and conservation of biological resources. These are still widely practiced, but in some areas are declining in influence as ni-Vanuatu society and culture change in response to introduced economic and social values and new technologies. Since independence traditional approaches to conservation have been supplemented by a range of measures introduced by government and non-government organisations, and individuals in the private sector. Most of these have focused on species of commercial value within the development priorities of the key economic sectors of agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

If we the nation are to conserve and manage Vanuatu's biological diversity it will depend upon the development choices we make today at a local and national level. In Vanuatu we rely on biological resources in all aspects of our life: for the food we grow in our gardens through agriculture products and livestock we market: for building materials we use locally through to the timber we sell; for fish and shellfish that are gathered from our reefs., and in our custom and ceremonies.