Biodiversity in the Pacific islands

Two Organisations flock together

In Suva in 2005, SPREP and BirdLife International Pacific held a joint meeting with representatives of Pacific Island countries and NGOs from the BirdLife Partnership. From that joint meeting emerged the Suva Declaration which welcomed initiatives taken for stronger collaboration between BirdLife's Pacific Partners and SPREP member countries and suggested a number of areas where the two organizations should work together to ensure that no more bird species are allowed to become extinct in the Pacific region and to improve the conservation status of threatened birds. Since the adoption of that Declaration, discussions have been ongoing between the two organizations and a number of activities have been implemented.
These include the development of an MOU with BirdLife Pacific Partnership focused on undertaking collaborative activities.

Joint List of Activities

Subsequently, the SPREP and BirdLife Pacific Secretariats developed an agreed list of activities to be implemented during the next 12 months. Principal among these are reactivation of the Roundtable's Birds' Working Group, a joint review of the status of the region's birds to be completed by September 2007 and the convening of a dedicated, one-day meeting on birds to be held immediately before the next Pacific Conference of Nature Conservation to be held in Papua new Guinea in October 2007.

Further information, contact, Ana Tiraa, Island Biodiversity Officer.