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The Sixth South Pacific Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas held in Palikir, Federated States of Micronesia, on 29 September – 3 October 1997, continued the series of nature conservation conferences held in New Zealand (1975), Australia (1979), Western Samoa (1985), Vanuatu (1989) and Tonga (1993).

The Sixth South Pacific Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas held in Palikir, Federated States of Micronesia, on 29 September – 3 October 1997, continued the series of nature conservation conferences held in New Zealand (1975), Australia (1979), Western Samoa (1985), Vanuatu (1989) and Tonga (1993).

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.

The Fifth meeting of the Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation was held at the Museum Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand from 7-10 November 2000, and hosted by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Meetings of the Capacity-Building, Roundtable, Sites, Conservation Trust Fund, and Conservation Area Networks Working Groups were held on Monday 6 November. The Pacific Islands Conference, Capacity-Building, and Polling Working Groups met on the morning of Tuesday 7. The Roundtable and Sites Working Groups also met on the afternoon of Friday 10 immediately following the main Roundtable meeting.

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.

This is the seventh volume in a WWF series of reports developed as part of the Arguments for Protection project, which aims to identify and where possible quantify the range of benefits derived from protected areas, increase support for protection, develop new interdisciplinary partnerships, identify innovative financing mechanisms and broaden and strengthen protected area management strategies. In this case we focus on the positive benefits that can be provided by protected areas for human health. Our understanding of the term ‘human health’ in this context is based on the definition of the World Health Organization (WHO): “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.

This is the fifth volume in the WWF series of reports developed as part of the Arguments for Protection project which is assembling evidence on the social and economic benefits of protected areas to widen and strengthen support for park creation and management. In this volume we explore the increasing number and severity of so-called natural disasters, review how environmental degradation is contributing to this trend, look at how conservation through protection is currently mitigating the impacts of hazards and disasters and discuss the options for further developing the role of protected areas in disaster prevention and mitigation strategies.