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In 1997, UNDP Suva, through the Global Environment Facility secured US$230,000 for the Republic of Marshall Islands to assist the Ministry of Resources and Development, through the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). The aim of the NBSAP is to facilitate the protection and sustainable use of Marshall Islands’ biodiversity. Biodiversity and biological resources are fundamental to so many aspects of our lives - for example, health and medicine, food and nutrition, energy, land use, education and employment and thus the decision to prepare an NBSAP was a crucial one for the future of the nation and the people.

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