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Pesticides as covered in the project include acaricides, biological pesticides (bacteria, viruses), defoliants, dessicants, fumigants, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides, nematicides, rodenticides and synergists. Pesticides included are those used in plant protection, in animal health (products for external use only), in human health programmes and for urban pest control.

Tuvalu is comprised, almost entirely, of extremely small low-lying atolls rising only a few metres above sea level. Because of the fragility of its ecosystems, the scarcity of its terrestrial resources and the vulnerability of the environment and subsistence and commercial economy to the forces of external development beyond its control, environmental planning, management, protection and the promotion of sustainable development are of utmost importance.

This Review of Environmental Law in Solomon Islands has been implemented as an important component of the Regional Environment Technical Assistance (RETA) Project. The RETA project has been developed to address environmental issues in a number of Pacific countries. It has been funded by the Asian Development Bank and carried out with technical assistance from IUCN - the World Conservation Union. The RETA project is an important regional initiative, which reflects the need for careful management of the Pacific environment.