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Tetepare is a 120 square kilometre (approx.) island, southeast of Rendova Island. It represents about 2.3 of the land area of the Western Province. The island is about 27km long and 7km wide and lies at 9030N, 340E in the Solomon Islands. It is separated from Rendova Island by the Balfuor Channel and from New Georgia and Vangunu Islands by the Blanche Channel. Most of Tetepare has an elevation of less than 200m with the highest point being 357m asl. Fringing reef lies along the south of the island.

On October 18 and 19, 2005, WWF SI hosted a Forests Strategy Planning Workshop for key partners ro determine where WWF should focus its efforts with respect to forests programming. The objective of the workshop was to develop a Forests Strategy for WWF in the Solomon Islands by working with partners to identify areas of common interest. Participants included national and provincial government representatives, AusAID's Sustainable Forest Management programme, Oxfam, Greenpeace, SIDT Eco-forestry Programme, NRDF, ECANSI, MCCF, East Rennell World Heritage Trust Board, Lauru Rural Training Centre and others.