Aalbersberg, William G.L. and Avosa, M and James, R and Kaluwin, C and Lokani, P and Opu, J and Siwatibau, Savenaca and Tuiwawa, Marika and Waqa-Sakiti, Hilda F.V. and Tordoff, A. W (2012) Ecosystem profile: east melanesian islands biodiversity hotspot. [Professional and Technical Reports]
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Abstract
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is designed to safeguard the world’s biologically richest and most threatened regions, known as biodiversity hotspots. It is a
joint initiative of l’Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International (CI), the European Commission, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the World Bank.
A fundamental purpose of CEPF is to engage civil society, such as community groups,
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academic institutions and private enterprises, in
biodiversity conservation in the hotspots. To guarantee their success, these efforts must complement existing strategies and programs of national governments and other
conservation funders. To this end, CEPF promotes working alliances among diverse
groups, combining unique capacities and reducing duplication of efforts for a comprehensive, coordinated approach to conservation. One way in which CEPF does this
is through preparation of “ecosystem profiles”—shared strategies, developed in consultation with local stakeholders, which articulate a five-year investment strategy informed by a detailed situational analysis.
This document is the ecosystem profile for the East Melanesian Islands Hotspot, which
includes the island nations of Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands and the islands region of
Papua New Guinea (PNG), which includes the provinces of Manus, New Ireland, East
New Britain and West New Britain plus the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. The
East Melanesian Islands qualify as a hotspot due to their high levels of plant and animal
endemism and accelerating levels of habitat loss, caused chiefly by widespread commercial logging and mining, expansion of subsistence and plantation agriculture, population increase, and the impacts of climate change and variability. The East Melanesian Islands Hotspot holds exceptional cultural and linguistic diversity. Vanuatu, for example, has 108 living languages: more per unit area than any other country. Because many languages are spoken by only a few hundred people, they are disappearing, leading to a rapid erosion of traditional knowledge and practice. This is highly significant in a region where most land and resources are under customary ownership, and local people are true stewards of biodiversity.
| Item Type: | Professional and Technical Reports |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) > Institute of Applied Science |
| Depositing User: | Generic Account |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2014 03:42 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2017 23:19 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/7407 |
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