Vanuatu - Vanuatu initiates action to achieve global biodiversity target on protected areas

Vanuatu is a stronghold of biodiversity in the Pacific islands region and there are many sites throughout the country that have high conservation value owing to their role as key habitats for vulnerable and endemic species...In this backdrop, a national workshop for protected area stakeholders was completed this week to help initiate measures to consolidate and improve national data and information on Vanuatu's protected areas. The workshop was co-organised and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Vanuatu Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation (DEPC).

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