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Pacific Islands Conferences on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas

This series of major regional conservation conferences has met approximately every five years since 1975.  It has become the principal gathering of Pacific government agencies, regional organisations, NGOs, community-based organisations, and donor agencies concerned with conservation science and practice in the region.  Each Conference endorses a new regional Framework for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, and State of Environment and Conservation report.  PIRT co-hosts this conference alongside SPREP and a Pacific Island host country.

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The 10th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas was scheduled to be held in April 2020 in Noumea, co-hosted by the Government of New Caledonia.  The event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was held in November 2020 as a fully virtual conference.  It was one of the largest environmental conferences ever held in the region, with 187 speakers and over 1,800 participants.  Read the Conference report here.

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The 11th Conference is expected to be held in early 2026.

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Image: Past SPREP Director General Kosi Latu addresses the 10th Conference
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The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT) is supported by the Pacific BioScapes Programme.

The Pacific BioScapes Programme is a European Union (EU) funded action, managed and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
The Programme contributes to the sustainable development of Pacific Small Island Developing States through the implementation of 30 focused activities taking place across a diversity of ecosystems in 11 countries (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu) that will address critical issues concerning coastal and marine biodiversity, and ecosystem-based responses to climate change adaptation.
For more information, please visit: www.sprep.org/bioscapes

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© 2023 by Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT)

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