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Pacific Island nature Conservation 24-26 Feburary, Meeting Report
1998
The Australia/SPREP Coastal Vulnerability Intiative for Atoll states: confidence building in Management, Planning and Assessment in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
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SPREP

1998
In October 1997, Environment Australia and the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) sponsored a project that was undertaken at the Republic of Marshall Islands Environmental Protection Authority (RMI EPA). This project is part of Phase III of the Australia/SPREP Vulnerability Initiative for Atoll States.
Village fisheries management and community-owned marine protected areas in Samoa
Biodiversity Conservation
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Faasili Ueta

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King, Michael

1998
As in many tropical countries, subsistence fishers in Samoa live in discrete communities which have a high level of marine knowledge and some degree of control of adjacent waters. These factors provide an ideal basis for motivating communities to manage their marine resources. In Samoa, a community-based fisheries extension program encouraged each village community to define its key problems, discuss causes, propose solutions and take appropriate actions. Various village groups provided information which was recorded as problem/solution trees. The extension process culminated in a Village Fisheries Management Plan which listed the resource management and conservation undertakings of the community. Undertakings range from enforcing laws banning destructive fishing methods to protecting critical marine habitats. Within the first eighteen months, the extension process commenced in 57 villages of which 40 have produced Village Fisheries Management Plans. An unexpectedly large number (32) of these villages chose to establish Marine Protected Areas, the first community-owned marine reserves in the country.
Investigations on the soft bottom benthos in a Southwest Pacific atoll lagoon (Uvea, New Caledonia)
Biodiversity Conservation
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Chevillon Christophe

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Clavier Jacques

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Garrigue Claire

1998
Microbenthos and macrobenthos were quantitatively studied at 62 stations distributed regularly over the Uvea Atoll lagoon (850 km2). Sampling was performed using both SCUBA and a 0.1 m2 Smith Mclntyre grab. Mean estimates of ATP, chlorophyll a and phaeopigments were 297.3ng/cm2, 77.01 mg/m2 and 35.28 mg/m2 respectively. The mean macrobenthic biomass was 4.14 gAFDW/m2 of which the macrophytobenthos accounts for 39%. The benthic biomass decreased from the coast to the deepest parts of the lagoon. Macrophytes were most abundant in the coastal area and became progressively scarcer with increasing depth. By comparison, sessile species dominated on hard substrates in intermediate and deep zones. The abundance of the surface-deposit feeder group, that dominated the trophic structure of zoobenthos (33% of the macrofauna biomass), could be explained by a microphytic biomass six times higher than macrophytobenthic one in terms of carbon. Carnivores (32%) were mainly represented by necrophagous species, and filter-feeders (27%) by bivalves. Herbivores were rare. Four main benthic communities were identified on the basis of their macrobenthic assemblages using a Detrended Correspondence analysis. They corresponded to (1) a coastal zone, with the highest mud percentage in sediments, (2) an intermediate zone, with moderate depth and dominated by hard substrates, (3) a back reef zone, with thick sand layers, and (4) a deep zone dominated by hard substrates. Relative distribution of the trophic groups varied according to the different zones and suggests distinct functional characteristics for the different benthic assemblages. From a biogeographic point of view, this study highlighted the richness of the Uvea Atoll lagoon in terms of benthic species and biomass, compared to other central Pacific atoll lagoons.
The reptiles of Kapingamarangi atoll, Micronesia
Biodiversity Conservation
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Buden, Donald

1998
Two species of sea turtles and eight lizards comprise the herpetofauna of Kapingamarangi Atoll; the giant Micronesian gecko (Perochirus scutellatus) is unknown elsewhere. The mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris), oceanic gecko (Gehyra oceanica), and azure-tailed copper-striped skink (Emoia impar) are the most common and widespread species, being recorded on 100%, 97%, and 87% of the 31 islands, respectively. The stump-toed gecko (Gehyra mutilata) and the Pacific blue-tailed skink (Emoia caeruleocauda), both known from only a scattering of older records from the most densely inhabited and most frequently visited islands, may be extirpated or possibly still exist locally in very small numbers. Sea turtles are rare and none was observed during the present study, but local residents indicate they were more numerous in the past.
Populations status of Pteropus Tonganus in Tonga
Biodiversity Conservation
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Grant Gilbert S

1998
Flying foxes (Pteropus spp) are important pollinators and seed dispersers in many island ecosystems. Populations of flying foxes have declined markedly on most islands in the South Pacific since the 1940's. One potential conservation strategy is to reintroduce bats on islands where they historically occurred. In this manner, the risk of species extinction due to local catastrophic events can be reduced. Ideally the source population for such reintroductions must be robust. One such population might be in the Kingdom of Tonga, where flying foxes have been protected by local custom for a long time. However, virtually nothing has been published on the numbers, locations, and reproductive biology of Pteropus tonganus in Tonga. I therefore censused flying fox populations on as many islands as possible from 28 June to 26 July 1995. I found seven major roosts containing a total of 3,582 bats on Tongatapu, one roost with 30 bats in the Ha'apai group, and 27 roosts with a total of 5,925 bats on 14 islands within the Vava'u group. Thus, the flying fox population in Tonga seems robust and dispersed on many islands and is therefore a valuable potential source population.
Briefing papers : one to five, for preparations leading to the Ninth Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SBI/SBSTA) and the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-4) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2-13 November, 1998, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

1998
The Strategic Action Programme for International Waters of the Pacific Islands Region

Edited by Tauafiafi, F.

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Verlaan, P. & Okesene, M.

1998
SPREP - Report of the intergovernmental meeting on the SPREP action plan - New Caledonia,1988

SPREP

1998
Action Strategy for Environmental Education and Training in the Pacific Region : 1999 - 2003
Biodiversity Conservation
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) (SPREP) with financial assistance from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

1998
The Initial draft of this action strategy for environmental education and training in the pacific region 1999 – 2003 was developed by participants at the pacific regional conference for environmental education and training, held in suva, Fiji, from 29 June – 3 July, 1998. The conference was attended by more than 170 representatives of 21 of SPREP’s Island member countries/ Each country’s delegation comprised representatives from the education department, environment department and a non- governmental organization. Representatives of regional and international organizations also contributed significantly, both as participants and as sponsors. The conference, co-hosted by the University of the South Pacific (USP), Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) and the south pacific regional environment programme (SPREP), funded by the Australian agency for international development (AusAID), New Zeeland official development assistance (NZODA), the Danish international development Agency (Danida) and the united kingdom’s Department for international development pacific (Dfid),provided a valuable opportunity for environmental educators and trainers from the pacific to link together, share experiences and determine how best to strengthen environmental education and training for the pacific islands region

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