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The Pacific Islands region served by SPREP covers 32 million sq km and is situated in the middle of the largest continuous marine habitat on the planet, the Pacific Ocean. The SPREP region is home to a diverse range of large marine fauna including cetaceans, sirenians and marine turtles. Over half the world’s known species of cetaceans are found in the region. The area also supports the world’s largest remaining populations of dugongs, green, hawksbill, and loggerhead turtles.

Seaweed farming in Kiribati

The Van Tienhoven Foundation provided Dick Watling with a grant of US$2000 to enable him to visit the islands of Late and Fonualei to determine the success of translocation efforts of the Polynesian Megapode Megapodius pritchardii to those islands in the early 1990s. This report is the formal account of the visits for the Van Tienhoven Foundation and is submitted in accordance with the conditions of the grant.

As part of Tuvalu's commitment to the principles of Agenda 21 and the outcome of the WSSD 2002. the new Government of Tuvalu is committed to preparing a national sustainable development strategy. As part of the process of putting together this strategy, the government is planning a National Sustainable Development Summit sometime in 2003.