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

CASO Workshop field trip, Viti Levu, Fiji, Sands National Park, May 1999

Greg Sherley, Sands, National Park Viti Levu, Fiji May 1999

CASO workshop members on sand dunes, National Park Viti Levu, Fiji, May 1999

Weed encroahment on sand dunes, National Park, Viti Levu, Fiji May 1999

CASO Workshop members , Sands National Park, Fiji. Interpretation centre

Hawkes Bill Turtle, Kula Bird Park, Fiji, May 1999

Kula Bird Park, Fiji, May 1999

This article provides a record of fish names from two locations in the central Pacific, these being the Vava'u Islands of Tonga, and Taveuni area in northern Fiji. The Handbook for the Collection of Fish Names in Pacific Languages by G.L. Barnett provided a method for the collection of these data during field work at the two places which culturally are part of West Polynesia. Interviews and discussions with fishers yielded a record of the Tongan language names and Fijian language names of approximately 50 fishes that occur in the waters of these islands. These terms are collated with the English names and scientific identifications. The names are the contemporary ones used by Tongans and Fijians in the 1980s and 1990s. The word list is a reference document for marine scientists, fishers, environmentalists, and other work focussed on the maritime cultures of the Pacific, local languages and the nomenclature of fishes.

This film is about the ARM programme in the Pacific Ocean. Currently there are 2 research stations: in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Both stations have been set up in a collaborative effort between ARM, the Government of Papua New Guinea and Nauru and SPREP, the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. This film gives an insight into the ARM Programme itself, the stations in the Pacific and why climate research in the Pacific is particularly important.