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Waitabu Marine Park on Taveuni MARITIME - Waitabu marks marine park anniversary www.fijidailypost.com - 6-Jun-2008 Sai's Comment: - This is a great example of how naive Fijians could also contribute to preserving their environment while generating some earnings from their natural resources. Am proud to have met people involved in the Waitabu project when in NZ from the contributions of the NZ government. Am more proud to learn that my island of Yacata have just recently also designated a part of the fishery around the island as a marine reserve. Great effort and leadership by those on the island. Yacata Island, Fiji. - News & Information: Waitabu Marine Park on Taveuni

Klein CJ , Chan A , Kircher L , Cundiff AJ , Gardner N , Hrovat Y , Scholz A , Kendall BE , Airamé S . Centre for Applied Environmental Decision and Analysis, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia. c.klein@uq.edu.au The establishment of marine protected areas is often viewed as a conflict between conservation and fishing. We considered consumptive and nonconsumptive interests of multiple stakeholders (i.e., fishers, scuba divers, conservationists, managers, scientists) in the systematic design of a network of marine protected areas along California's central coast in the context of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. With advice from managers, administrators, and scientists, a representative group of stakeholders defined biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic goals that accommodated social needs and conserved marine ecosystems, consistent with legal requirements. To satisfy biodiversity goals, we targeted 11 marine habitats across 5 depth zones, ar...

Home » Welcome to the Photobank » CORAL at Work Waitabu Workshop October 2003 CORAL funded a mooring buoy project in Waitabu to demarcate the Waitabu protected area. CORAL visited the community to view the moorings and discuss... Full Size » Waitabu Workshop | Coral Reef Alliance

A survey team includes villagers from Waitabu who are trained to monitor the tabu area. Photo by Fijitimes Online WAITABU, TAVEUNI, CAKAUDROVE on Flickr - Photo Sharing

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 ALUMECI NAKEKE Okostino Apao ... protecting the sea The love for his fishing ground and a request from his dying mother prompted 23-year-old Okostino Apao to put his studies on hold and look after the village marine protected area. Apao is originally from Rotuma but grew up in his mother's village of Waitabu on Taveuni . As Apao grew up, he never really understood the importance of the work his late mother Sala did, which is to manage the village marine protected area, now known as the Waitabu Marine Park as it is frequently visited by tourists. Sala was the force behind the setting up of the park with the help of Marine Ecology Fiji Consultant, Helen Sykes . After completing Form Seven on Taveuni, Apao enrolled at the Fiji Institute of Technology, but had to return to help his sick mother with her work. Sadly, she died in 2006. Since then, Apao said, he has continued to do the work his mother did and has never regretted leaving FIT because he love...