Vemööre Declaration: Commitments to Nature Conservation Action in the Pacific Islands region, 2021-2025
SPREP Publications, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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We, representatives of the governments of Pacific Island countries and territories, our partner countries and the Heads of the Organizations of members of the Pacific Island Round table for Nature Conservation, gathered for the High-level session of the 10th Pacific Island Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, declare that the global biodiversity crisis is urgent, and that transformative action must not be delayed. This is a crisis is an existential threat to our Pacific Ocean, our Pacific Islands, and to ourselves as Pacific peoples.