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 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
… adequately recognize the local communities' rights and the project failed. In 1989, the South Pacific Regional … in developing and implementing a marine conservation area project to protect turtle nesting beaches and other important …
 The Nature Conservancy
… in six villages in Kimbe Bay and was part of a larger project being undertaken by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to … local marine resource use and conservation. The Kimbe Bay project aims to protect and conserve the biodiversity and …
 United States Coral Reef Task Force

The American Samoa Local Action Strategies (LAS) are the result of a nearly two-year process that saw input from territorial agencies, non-profit groups, interested individuals, and other stake-holders such as local fishers, and federal agency partners. This process was initiated through the American

 Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources
… marine resource awareness raising under the coral gardens project which was implemented by SIDT, ECANSI and Fisheries …
 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

One of the greatest challanges we face in protecting our islands biodiversity is how to balance the needs of the people that use it, and the future of the environment. There are many reasons why the Pacific islands way of life is endangered, it is
necessary to address these threats, all of them. Understand ing their causes will help to stop them, if it is possible or to change or adapt our way of life. It is necessary to focus on long term sustainability strategies, but in the mean time develop and carry out short term projects to address the immediate needs of our islands.