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This document provides a plan to protect and enhance the cloud forests of Rarotonga so that their indigenous ecosystems, habitats for endemic species, and water supply functions are preserved in perpetuity.

National Hepor!.s to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) were prepared under the direction of the National Task Forces in 12 Pacific island countries with the financial and technical assistance of the Asian Development Bank and United Nations Development Programme. This assistance was coordinated by Gerald Miles through the South Pacific Regional Environment Programmll (SPREP). For the Cook Islands, this report was drafted by Teariki Rongo and Bob Thistlethwaite, ane! endorsed by their government for presentation to the United Nations.