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Music for promotion and raising awareness of turtle conservation and protection in Samoa and in the Pacific. The song is both in English and Samoan. This was part of the Pacific Year of the Sea Turtle in 1994

This State of the Environment (SOE) Report is part of the process of assessing the environmental issues confronting Palau, and will contribute to the development of a National Environmental Management Strategy (NEMS) for the Republic. It was commissioned by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme for the Government of the Republic of Palau.

The State of the Environment (SOE) Report includes all those environmental problems that have been identified to date in Tokelau. This report also serves to illustrate the severity of some of these problems, and how we may expect to resolve them. More specific details of actions which will address these environmental problems are included in the Tokelau Environmental Management Strategy (TEMS)

This Environmental Legislation Review for Tuvalu has been produced as an important component of the National Environmental Management Strategies (NEMS) Project. The NEMS Project was developed to address sustainable environmental development and planning issues in a number of Pacific island countries. It was funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB) and implemented through the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) as part of a broader UNDP assistance project called PMI: Planning and Implementation of Pacific Regional Environment Programme which concentrates oil regional and in-country institution strengthening and training of environmental managers.

An illustration of the importance of a Tropical Forest found on the remote island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. Whilst developers are proposing activities such as logging, a small community known as "Matantas" is employed to illustrate the importance of the forest to their people and how such development will impact their livelihood. It is an important source of food for these islanders being remote and still very much isolated from the modernised world. SPBCP assists communities with the promotion of alternative economic activities such as eco-tourism, harvesting of indigenous forests, and an improvement of agricultural and forestry practices by local people.