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Three different video stories about Water and plastic bags and its impacts for people daily life routines in Cook Islands

Pacific green furniture made from coconut timber, Viti Levu, Fiji, May 1999

The importance of healthy mangroves to a Pacific island village is shared with a group of children by an elderly storyteller. His tale highlights the benefits and purposes of the mangroves, and the dangers that face them: pollution, over-use of resources, and destruction by greedy developers.

The main environmental concerns for Samoa are depicted in this 15 minute video. Some of these are; the alarming rate of deforestation, freshwater supply, the degradation of reefs due to use of dynamite, coastal pollution resulting in further coral damage, continuing destruction of coastal mangroves, and the resulting decrease of fish stock in the lagoon. SPREP and the Environment Department have formulated a National Environmental Management Strategy; NEMS, which will identify policies to deal with these environmental problems. It is hoped that with the implementation of these policies, we can all continue to enjoy a cleaner and improved environment today and in the distant future.

Investigating the feasibility of disaggregating population data, assigning different population densities according to the classes of CORINE land cover.

All environment, historical, cultural, political and judicial issues may impact biological diversity in one way or another. In this context, Kiribati Government recognises the need to sustain biological diversity. In doing so, related programmes in Environmental Impact Assessment, Climate Change and Sea Level Changes, Solid Waste Management and Conservation Areas have been implemented with the full assistance and support of Government.

The decrease in fish and seafood locally from numerous different reasons . Some of these reasons including ; buried parts of the coast for ground- new ( field ) the fishery the psychological need of marine glide The use of fishing -than- necessary and experiences from storms ( Val 1990 Val 1991 , Heather 2004) financial crisis

Fishing in Samoa is very important because one of the ways to achieve food security especially in communities and villages in rural areas. In many communities, they do not appreciate the Improved economy and the marine environment. Bringing the use of type fishing a modern-day, there meanava, nets and hurry printing, medicine Poison would be easier and a lot of fish, but are harmful to the environment marine ecosystems. The implementation of projects in the coastal areas, damage to the many places and millions of animals are living and breeding. To survive This situation is created by the Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries program for the Management of Environmental Hazard and Spy Good fish and seafood, to help build a Jurisdiction fishing communities The community conservation, management and rationalizing the use of the wealth of marine Samoa

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