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A long term programme to clean up stockpiles of waste chemicals and obsolete pes

Multinational companies are devoting substantially more research dollars these days to discovering how natural resources could be used to make new pharmaceuticals or crops. This bioprospecting as its called, can yield billion dollar profits in beneficial now products.

This article provides details pf this new programme together with its current status of activities and the people involved in its implementation.

Ministers of the ninth SPREP meeting approved and supported a new four year action plan which will guide the SPREP to the year of 2000 .

The eighth meeting that affirms SPREP's independence here in Samoa

The ninth meeting for SPREP where south ministers attend discussing what the environment of the South Pacific region will look like in the next century.

With a call to end all commercial trade in turtle and their products, the 1995 Year of the sea turtle began throughout the Pacific islands in the first week of March.

Pacific island representatives are seeking further reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a new round of negotiations that commenced in Geneva in August.

Forum leaders made a huge leap towards the next century in basing this year's discussion on the theme "managing our resources".

The SPREP meeting approved the new Action Strategy for Nature Conservation in the South Pacific 1994-1998 which provides practical guidelines for Pacific island countries seeking to protect their fragile environments.