The third regional bird meeting, 20 October 2007, Alotau Papua New Guinea

Abstract

The following report summarizes the work being carried out by parties to the Pacific working group for bird conservation. This group has voluntary membership and is chaired by Ian Karika, President, Te Ipukarea, with secretarial support from the Regional Director of BirdLife International's Pacific Programme, Don Stewart, and Island Biodiversity Programme Officer, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Ana Tiraa. Implicit in this is that once the report is agreed as an accurate as possible record of the meeting then there is some commitment from the members to place a priority on these actions both in their own work programmes and facilitating and promoting other's. This would include advocating the priorities to funding agencies. The recommendations have been carefully considered and effectively represent the collective view of the bulk of those in the Pacific regional community working on bird conservation and as such are intended to serve as a guide for practitioners and donors within the next five years until the next Conference is held or other meeting such as the Pacific Round Table.