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Emphasising a "blue-green" theme the renewed “EU relations with the Pacific Islands: A Strategy for Strengthening Partnership” focuses on strengthening cooperation with Pacific ACP countries to address the sustainable management of natural resources and environmental challenges. 10th EDF programming requires that the environment is integrated into all Country Strategy Papers ensuring that future actions are appropriately targeted. An important step in this process is the preparation of an environment profile for each Pacific ACP country.

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a unique country. It is located on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea including the large islands of the Bismarck Archipelago including New Britain, New Ireland, and Bougainville further to the east. Its’ population of 5.7 million people is scattered throughout the 464 000 km2 of landmass including more than 600 small islands. PNG is a very rich country in terms of its natural resources which includes mineral, petroleum, gas, forestry, fisheries, land and agricultural resources. It is often described as an ‘island of gold floating on a sea of oil’. Its’ varied marine, volcanic, mountainous, swampy, freshwater, and forest environment is home to 6 percent of the world’s total biodiversity. Nowhere else on this planet is its biological diversity equally matched by its cultural diversity than it is in PNG? Over 97 percent of land is owned by customary landowners including resources on, under and above land. The people speak over 800 different languages and belong to over ten thousand autonomous tribes with their unique social, cultural and political features.

The environment and attendant biodiversity of Papua New Guinea has escaped much of the degradation witnessed in neighbouring countries, thanks more to the rugged terrain, absence of infrastructure and the traditional land tenure system than to any environmental management on the part of Government, individuals or the private sector. However, some areas of the country have experienced significant levels of degradation, generally related to resource extractions (i.e. mining and logging) and. there are serious future threats that need to be addressed with more vigour than heretofore.

Instructional video on Fukuoka Method for Leachate Treatment system implementation in Samoa, portraying vital important ways to control Leachate for landfill as implemented in Samoa at the Tafaigata Landfill for the purpose to safeguard the environment of water for people's daily life protection control.

Plant genetic resources are a threatened but invaluable resource for present and future generations. Crop genetic diversity – both in cultivated plants (landraces) and the wild plants from which our crops originate (crop wild relatives or CWR) – provide important resources for food security, environmental sustainability and economic stability. It is thus perhaps surprising, considering this socio-economic importance that the conservation of CWR has not been systematically addressed and the rapid declines in landraces have generated little international conservation concern.

Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) spells out clearly the objectives of the Convention and Article 6 calls on Parties to develop national strategies, plans or programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Further, Articles 26 also requires Parties to report to the Conference of the Parties the implementation of the provisions of the Convention This First National Communication Report is submitted in compliance with the intent of Article 26 and it contained measures which Tonga considers appropriate in terms of achievement of the objectives of the Convention.

Organise a national launch for the Year of the Sea Turtle. Invite schools, legislators, community groups, the media and the general public to attend. Have an information display/presentations about turtles and their role in the Pacific.