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09SUVA330 2009-08-11 00:33 2011-08-30 01:44 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Suva
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 04 SUVA 000330 
 
SIPDIS 
 
BANGKOK FOR REO AND USAID 
 
COMMERCE FOR NOAA 
 
INTERIOR FOR USGS, OIA, NPS, and FWS 
 
USDA FOR THE FOREST SERVICE 
 
E.O 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SENV EAID BP XV
SUBJECT: 12th Pacific Roundtable for Nature Conservation Meets in 
Solomon Islands 
 
REF A) 07 Port Moresby 0370 (NOTAL) 
REF B) 08 Suva 0289 
REF C) 08 Suva 0455 
 
1. Summary: The Pacific Roundtable on Nature Conservation held its 
12th annual Meeting in Honiara, Solomon Islands from June 27 to July 
3. The meeting focused on improving roundtable support to countries 
in implementing their national nature conservation strategies. It 
adopted a monitoring framework for the Pacific Regional Action 
Strategy for Nature Conservation (2008-2012) and endorsed additional 
"Principles" that will also be subject to monitoring.  Participants 
shared their organizations' objectives as well as their plans to 
align those objectives to the Action Strategy.  They also discussed 
the need to improve linkages between the Coral Triangle Initiative 
(CTI) National Action Plans and other national strategic documents 
and expressed concerns over reporting and other demands CTI 
participation is making on countries.  The Solomon Islands 
government launched its National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan 
during the meeting, which was opened by Minister for Environment, 
Conservation and Metrology, Gordon Darsy Lilo. End Summary. 
 
2. The Pacific Roundtable on Nature Conservation (RT) met for the 
12th time since its inception from June 27-July 3 in Honiara, 
Solomon Islands (SI).  The meeting was co-hosted by the Solomon 
Islands Ministry of Environment and by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) 
and was chaired by IUCN Oceania Director Taholo Kami. The agenda 
focused on improving Roundtable support to countries in implementing 
their national nature conservation strategies. (Note: The RT now 
sees its role as providing a mechanism to implement the Action 
Strategy for Nature Conservation in the Pacific Island Region 
2008-2012 [reftels A and B].) Representatives of local and 
international NGOs took part in the weeklong meeting together with 
participants from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional 
Environment Programme (SPREP) and the University of the South 
Pacific (USP) and officials from the SI government.  Mark Fornwall, 
the USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) 
Pacific Basin Information Node coordinator and Embassy Suva-based 
Regional Environment Affairs Specialist (RES) Sandeep K. Singh also 
attended. Current RT members are IUCN, USP, SPREP, WWF-South 
Pacific, Conservation International, the Secretariat of the Pacific 
Applied Geosciences Commission (SOPAC), the Locally Managed Marine 
Areas Network, TNC, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), RARE 
Conservation, Birdlife International and the Foundation of the 
Peoples of the South Pacific International (FSPI). 
 
Monitoring of Action Strategy for Nature Conservation (2008-2012) 
and its Principles 
 
3. The meeting adopted a monitoring framework for the Action 
Strategy for Nature Conservation (2008-2012) and its "Principles." 
The Roundtable's various working groups will be responsible for the 
actual monitoring, which will be reported on a yearly basis. The 
framework has five indicators to measure progress against the 
Principles including, alignment of Roundtables members' programs 
with national conservation plans, national and local capacity 
development, Roundtable member accountability, coordination, and 
ensuring best practice in conservation program design and 
implementation. Members committed to report against these indicators 
by 2010 to establish a baseline of information. 
 
RT agrees to support Governments of Fiji, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and 
SI with implementation of their NBSAPs 
 
4. The RT members agreed to assist three priority countries Fiji, 
the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea with the development and 
implementation of their National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plans 
(NBSAPs). The RT Coordinator will work with the Departments of 
Environment (DOEs) of these countries in developing NBSAP 
implementation "roadmaps."  Participants estimated that the RT needs 
 
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at least $100,000 (USD) a year to support in-country activities and 
the coordinator's salary. The chair asked NGOs to pitch in. 
 
SI Government makes promises and launches its NBSAP 
 
5. Environmental news out of the Solomon Islands often focuses on 
rampant illegal logging or, more recently, dolphin sales.  The 
Solomon Islands' Department of Environment, like that of most other 
countries in the Pacific, is greatly under-resourced and is 
currently operating with just twelve staff.  Nevertheless, rising to 
the challenge of hosting the Roundtable, the DOE worked determinedly 
to launch the Solomon Islands NBSAP, which has been stalled for 
years, during this meeting.  In recognition of the achievement, the 
RT chair urged NGOs to work together to assist the SI government 
with NBSAP implementation. 
 
6. Another promising development was the environment minister's 
announcement in his opening remarks that the Solomon Islands 
Government had decided to reduce log exports to "a more sustainable 
level."  The minister, who himself owns a logging company, spoke 
about the need for sustainable logging practices. 
 
Linkages between the Nature Conservation and the Climate Change 
Roundtables 
 
7. Participants discussed how to link the activities of the 
Roundtable on Nature Cconservation with the newly established 
Climate Change Roundtable (reftel C) but were not able to identify a 
clear way forward. It was agreed that members need to address this 
issue as soon as possible. The RT chair will be presenting at the 
Climate Change Roundtable, which is tentatively slated to hold its 
second meeting in October or November in Marshall Islands. 
 
Inclusion of Northern Pacific Organizations in RT discussions 
 
8. RES encouraged the inclusion of organizations working in the 
Northern Pacific in the RT. Paul Lokani of The Nature Conservancy 
supported this suggestion, and members acknowledged that the RT 
should encompass the entire Pacific and that organizations working 
in the Northern Pacific should be invited. Participants agreed that 
the inclusion of Northern Pacific partners will help with sharing of 
lessons and best practices between initiatives such as the 
Micronesia Challenge and the Coral Triangle Initiative and at the 
same time help bridge the divide between the North and the South. 
Members also agreed that the RT should reach out to the French 
Pacific territories, as well a to the private sector, churches, 
civil society organizations, and a wider range or regional 
intergovernmental bodies and that renewed efforts would be made to 
engage the Australian and New Zealand governments, which were not 
represented at the meeting. 
 
2010 International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) 
 
9. RT members agreed to celebrate the "2010 International Year of 
Biodiversity" as a region. SPREP circulated a paper to members and 
requested their commitment and support.  This Roundtable decision 
will be presented to the next SPREP Meeting. 
 
Need to include donors in RT discussions 
 
10. One increasingly apparent weakness of the Roundtable is the lack 
of donor engagement.  Members agreed that they need to invite more 
donors into the RT.  Consequently, they agreed to hold a separate 
meeting with the donor community in December in 2009. 
 
USAID, ADB and the Coral Triangle Initiate (CTI) 
 
11. There was a good deal of discussion of CTI and the USAID and ADB 
support programs for it. Some RT members were concerned about the 
 
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demands that the funding requirements of the two programs make on 
countries. Small countries, such as the Solomon Islands, often find 
it burdensome to meet donor reporting and other requirements, which 
can actually interfere with the implementation of projects on the 
ground. RT members agreed that the NGOs implementing CTI in the 
Pacific should get in touch with ADB and USAID to raise these 
concerns.  RT members also emphasized the importance of linking the 
CTI National Plans of Action to the NBSAPS or any other relevant 
national plans including climate change plans. 
 
New RT Principles 
 
12.  Roundtable members adopted the following new Principles "to 
protect rich island lifestyles by investing in and banking on 
biodiversity."  These Principles are in addition to those previously 
agreed to the Action Strategy (reftel A).  They committed to: 
 
7 Recognize that the foundation of national planning and growth 
strategies is based upon ensuring continued availability of natural 
resources and environmental services; 
7 Protect healthy ecosystems and restore degraded ones in order to 
maintain ecosystem services on which our people depend for 
sustainable development and livelihoods; 
7 Maintain populations of plant and animal species that are critical 
drivers of ecosystem functions in order to increase resilience to 
climate change, which threatens important services such as clean 
water, food security and storm protection; 
7 Urge Pacific countries to support a responsible Reducing Emissions 
from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) regime in a post-Kyoto 
dialogue as a strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation; 
 
7 Support major regional initiatives to conserve biodiversity and 
promote sustainable development, such as the Coral Triangle 
Initiative, Micronesia Challenge, Regional Invasive Species Program, 
and the Pacific Ocean 2020; 
7 Encourage partners to the regional initiatives, including donors, 
to align with national priorities, including National Biodiversity 
Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), and to ensure engagement of 
local communities; 
7 Emphasize that most natural resources in the Pacific are owned and 
used by indigenous and local communities and the Pacific approach to 
conservation is based on sustainable resource use, community 
property rights and decision-making practices, and local aspirations 
for development and well-being. 
7 Build capacity for leadership, direction and ownership within 
Pacific governments to enable long-term sustainable management and 
conservation of biodiversity and bio-capital; 
7 Encourage donors to consider well-managed endowments in 
environmental trust funds at a national or regional level to ensure 
strengthening and staffing of Pacific government departments, 
national organizations and institutions, and community-based 
organizations; and 
7 Encourage donors and actors in the region to adopt the nine 
principles of the Action Strategy for Nature Conservation and 
Protected Areas in the Pacific Island Region 2008-2012. 
 
13. Comment: The RT has been in existence for 11 years now. 
Participants commented that this meeting was the first time they 
left with a greater sense of optimism with regard to both the future 
of the Roundtable and the possibility of it making a direct positive 
contribution to the region's environment, in particular the 
direction the Solomon Islands Government is taking with its various 
environment initiatives. The Roundtable has secured commitments from 
the governments of the three countries (Fiji, PNG and SI) and all 
major local and international NGOs operating in the region to 
cooperate in NBASAP implementation. The hope is that the new 
monitoring framework will put in place a tool to measure the extent 
to which NGO partners live up to those commitments. End Comment. 
 
 
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14. This report was cleared by the USGS NBII Pacific Basin 
Information Node coordinator and Embassy Port Moresby. 
 
McGann