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It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you all to Fiji to this 2nd Clean Pacific Roundtable meeting. It was just over 2years ago that we concluded a very successful, inaugural meeting, of the Clean Pacific Roundtable at the Holiday Inn in Suva.

Strategy and work programme for the protection of the marine environment in the South Pacific region (SPMESP)

Think Don't Throw - Marine plastic waste brochure

Think Don't Throw - Marine plastic waste poster

CD on EIA

Fiji’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Planencourages re nementstoconservation priorities based on analyses of new information. Here we propose a network of Priority Forests for Conservation based on a synthesis of new studies and data that have become available since legislation of the Action Plan in 2001. For selection of Priority Forests we considered minimum-area requirements for some native species, representation goals for Fiji’s habitats and species assemblages, key ecological processes and the practical realities of conservation areas in Fiji. Forty Priority Forests that cover 23% of Fiji’s total land area and 58% of Fiji’s remaining native forest were identi ed. The analysis con rms the majority of conservation priority areas previously identi ed, recommends several new areas, and supports the Government of Fiji’s policy goal of protecting 40% of remaining natural forests to achieve the goals of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan and sustain ecosystem services for Fijian communities and economies.

Mangrove ecosystems are defined by the presence of woody shrubs and trees growing below the high tide level, and generally extending down to the mid-tide level. They nay comprise a variety of plane species and Support a diverse and varied fauna. Above tide level the fauna is essentially terrestrial, which below tide level it is coastal and marine, such of the flora and fauna is highly adapted Co the mangrove environment and docs not occur elsewhere but species migrate or wander into adjacent ecosystem. A number of the coastal fish and cruscaccans may migrate between the mangroves and offshore zone ac some stage during their cycle