Vanuatu national biodiversity strategy and action plan (NBSAP) : 2018-2030

Abstract

Vanuatu’s biodiversity remains poorly known, with detailed studies of only a few genera and few studies of the biota of smaller or less accessible islands. However a review of studies of the flora and fauna of Vanuatu has shown that there are endemic species, rare species and uncommon variants within many of the genera that have been studied in detail. Much of Vanuatu’s diversity beneath the species level has only been classified by indigenous knowledge systems that vary from one language group to another and are not documented.