March 6, 2020
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A national training for government officers across environment and fisheries sectors, co-organised and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Samoa Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) was completed last week. The objective of the training was twofold - to train targeted personnel in the use of upgraded tools and features of the Pacific Islands Protected Area Portal (PIPAP) and to train personnel in geographic information systems (GIS) utilising free, open-source GIS software and recording spatial data in the field to produce basic maps of protected and conserved areas.
