SPREP
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 September 2010: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that it provided approximately US$2000 in financial assistance to Makata, a community-based conservation organization in Papua New Guinea, to protect nests of the endangered Leatherback and Green sea turtles in the Karkum Conservation Area. The project aims to maximize hatchling production for these two species.
SPREP announced that it will support Makata further by linking Makata with...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 September 2010: The German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) has announced it will fund the “Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region” programme. GTZ allocated an additional EUR 10 million to the existing South Pacific Community (SPC)/GTZ Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific Islands Region programme, which brings the total financing to EUR 14.2 million and supports the programme until 2015.
According to SPC, the additional funds will allow extension of...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
October 2010: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has announced that four of its member States have recently signed agreements concluded under the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS).
SPREP announced that Palau and Vanuatu have become the final two Pacific dugong range States to sign the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation and Management of Dugongs and their Habitats throughout their Range (Dugong MOU). SPREP thus confirms that all SPREP members...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 October 2010: “The Pacific Voyage” will be the central theme of a campaign supported by Pacific islands attending the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), meeting in Nagoya, Japan, from 18-29 October 2010.
The campaign, launched by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), aims to highlight that the Pacific has had success in nature conservation, and that scaling up could be enhanced with even...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 October 2010: The Chief Executives of the Council of Regional Organizations in the Pacific (CROP) have agreed to renew efforts in cooperating to address regional climate change issues.
At the inaugural CROP Executives Committee Meeting on Climate Change, which convened on 12 October 2010, in Nadi, Fiji, the Chief Executive Officers of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the Secretariat to the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Forum Fisheries Agency, University of the...
